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kanyawwah

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kanyawwah··on Do we really need a new BGP?
I'm a network engineer myself, and I can tell you your evaluation of the industry is pretty spot on. I believe a big part of the solution will be so-called white-box hardware. This will break the Cisco strangle-hold and force network operators to have deeper technical knowledge.
kanyawwah··on Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms
This is an issue in Myanmar too. There are businesses in Yangon that provide ship-to locations for a fee (and usually place the orders on behalf of their customers as well since most don't have access to electronic payments). I've never seen the pulse.codes system in real life, but it looks like a very elegant solution.

Also, on the subject of online forms, a major source of annoyance/confusion is the ubiquitous first name/last name fields (most people in Myanmar have just one name since family names aren't a thing). Some split their name in half to fill the two fields, which as you can imagine doesn't work very well when formatted as "last name, first name" or Mr. Last Name, etc.. :-)