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Land of Opposites: State of the Web Industry in South Africa

Saved by Bianca Aguilar
Facebook is famous for its internet.org project, also known as Free Basics. This program has partnered with telecom companies in sub-Saharan Africa to offer free internet access to Africans. The catch, though, is that only certain websites (notably including Facebook apps!) can be accessed for free.
As technology advanced, a new idea took hold: the more education you had, the more you were likely to benefit. This became known as the skill-biased view of change. It argued that technology boosted the productivity and value of highly educated workers more than others, creating an ever-widening gap between skilled and unskilled labor. As this
... See moreIt’s also the case that a lot of the internet’s biggest benefits are distributed in proportion to our cognitive abilities to exploit them. That’s a big difference between the internet and the major technological advances of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The internet is a public good, but you don’t benefit from it automatically in
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