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Africa: If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Technology

“If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere,” says White Africa in his post about Gmail Preview in Africa [1]: “Google realized what slow connections were doing to people’s interaction with their email accounts. So, they sent in a team of engineers to work in cyber cafes in Ethiopia to test out where the bottlenecks were and to come up with a solution.”