Rwanda: An Era of Disruptive Innovation

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According to the CIA, 25 per cent of the world's population is under the age of 15. In Uganda, the average age is between 15 and 16. These youths will never know a world where the internet does not exist and many may never use a landline phone. Disruptive innovation is any innovation that creates a new market and usually renders a previous market null and void.

Africa is a prime location for this type of innovation and African entrepreneurs are taking advantage of the opportunity. Innovation today In Kenya, M-PESA has become the business case for innovations that show that Africa cannot only innovate but show the 'developed' world how to do it. At its core M-PESA allows users to send and receive money through their mobile phones but the Kenyan population transformed this innovation for an entirely new set of uses.

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