the do-gooder industrial complex?

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How does Silicon Valley "control" the technology conversation in places like sub-Saharan Africa?

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Photo source: http://wishfulinnocence.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/bravo-start-ups-silicon-valley/

“Let us evaluate the basis for suggesting this time is different.”

Photo source: http://www.communike.com/en/the-new-race-for-the-world-conquest-project-loon-x-internet-org/

Photo source: http://www.zeno.org/Kulturgeschichte.images/I/blos064b.jpg

“The reason why they’re not on [the Internet] is they don’t know why they would want to get access to it. [We will show] people why it’s rational and good for them to spend the limited money that they have on the Internet.”

Article: http://readwrite.com/2014/02/24/facebook-plans-internet-takeover-zuckerberg

Photo source: http://techloy.com/2012/03/28/google-strategy-for-africa-and-emerging-markets/

Photo source: http://www.zeno.org/Kulturgeschichte.images/I/blos064b.jpg

Photo source: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/five-startups-win-microsoft-4afrika-awards-to-jumpstart-it-on-the-worlds-least-connected-continent/

Photo source: http://quemanta.org/2013/charlas-sobre-antonio-gramsci-boron-kohan-varesi-y-campione/

Photo source: http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2014/02/the-guardian-shares-an-obituary-for-stuart-hall/

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