Craig and Tony sit down for a conversation at YOW! Conference with Betty Enyonam Kumahor (stands for good for me, on the way there) who is a technology leader in Africa:

• Tony and Enyo are mutual members of the Alistair Cockburn fan club
• YOW! Conference talk “Frugal Innovation and Scaffolding Software“
• Software engineering uptake in Africa is very low, need more technologists because it is is not an industry it is an enabler
• Lots of diversity challenges in Africa – lees than 1% of the South African IT industry is women, but also diversity in languages, education and belief systems
• Diversity is a multi-pronged issue, need to be patient but not complacent to move the needle forward, give girls the confidence to be competent and to push the boundaries
• Frugal innovation in Africa – building technology in a space of constraints such as inadequate power, everything happens by mobile…