Well said. Atleast we’ve come to realise Nigeria is still majorly offline, and we need to work together to change that. I have noticed that in all things technology, we tend to look to the west for inspiration, but the reality is that the west is just too far from us. They had internet and an ecommerce and email culture from as far back as the 90s. But in Nigeria, when we build a platform, we first of all base the entire platform on email, which less than 30% of nigerians have, and less than 10% check often.

Then we go about expecting these users to be savy enough and comfortable enough to buy items from far away cities and wait for it to get to us, amidst our trust issues and huge logistics problems. Then credit cards in our unbanked population.

I think instead of looking to the west for inspiration, we should be looking to the east instead. Atleast Chinas tech economy developed more recently, and is still much more similar to Nigeria. Their entire tech ecosystem revolves around mobile, and their wechat platform. Even web developers in China usually build just for mobile browsers, and we chat mobile browsers to be precise.

Then look at the synergy within the Chinese ecosystem. They build on each other. EG Didi, their largest taxi network which was large enough to kick Uber out of China, wasnt even a stand alone app, but a service launched by a third party on top of the wechat platform.

We need more synergy, and systems that would actually bring up these not so tech savy populations like you said. Nigeria has a large mobile population (low spec android devices). We should be building around that. Instead of building so many apps (The average user just wont download your app if they can help it), we should be building synergies. Ecosystems that boost each other.