Erik Hersman — Businessman

Erik Hersman is a technologist, blogger and commentator who specialises in the impact and application of technology throughout Africa. Raised in Sudan and Kenya and a graduate of Kenya's Rift Valley Academy, he runs the websites WhiteAfrican and AfriGadget, the latter being a multi-author website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. AfriGadget was named one of Time's "Top 50 Sites of 2008"... (wikipedia)

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.
The future of Africa is in innovative engineering.
Change happens at the frontier.
In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.