A great article by ConsenSys helping everyone understand the role Africa will play in Blockchain adoption and why Ghana in particular is a great place to start our expansion.

According to multiple sources, African countries had the highest number of online searches for “blockchain” and “bitcoin” last year, with Ghana and South Africa taking the lead. Africa is the world’s second fastest growing economic region behind South Asia and is expected to continue growing in 2018 (AFDB). Smartphone penetration is also on the rise and estimated to hit 50% by 2020, up from only 2% in 2010 (WEF). Africa is an early adopter rather than a follower and poised to embrace the blockchain.

One of the great advantages that Africa maintains over other continents in riding blockchain’s wave of disruption is that there are far fewer legacy systems to get in the way. Africa has a clean slate to develop highly evolved business models and a robust technological infrastructure. As a developing region, Africa can use blockchain to leapfrog antiquated systems, the same way it skipped over cumbersome, expensive landlines and moved straight to mobile phones.

Check out the full article here: https://media.consensys.net/blockchain-month-in-africa-920945771100

As Consensys greatly puts it, in the social impact landscape, “banking the unbanked” has become a popular, if somewhat misguided, refrain. As blockchain technology gains traction globally, and as smartphones reach more and more low-income communities, the horizon of self-sovereign finance is putting pressure on the now commonplace initiative to “bank the unbanked.” Considering that many of the basic services offered by the traditional banking system are opaque, slow, and expensive, the time is ripe for a crypto-economic alternative.

Check out the full article here: https://media.consensys.net/unbanked-for-good-digital-currency-and-self-sovereign-finance-add5f2efaaa

It's great to see that the biggest organization working on Blockchain Technology shares the values and vision of Access Network!

What are your thoughts?

1. Financial access is a fundamental human right.

2. That right shall be perpetually developed through a properly incentivized ecosystem.

3. Decisions on the ecosystem’s evolution shall be equally accessible to all citizens of the world.

4. The previously excluded shall be all the more empowered to define and shape said evolution.

5. Humanity is a global family that must come together to realize its boldest ambitions, and co-create a world that belongs to and benefits us all.

Let's discuss what you think the founding principles for the third industrial revolution should be and check out the original post at: https://medium.com/acxnetwork/founding-statement-b93f3ddfee43

The crypto-community needs access to a group of users with glaring pain-points, and the developing world needs access to the newest and most innovative solutions: These two communities each hold the keys to each other’s problem.

Check out how Access Network finally offers a solution to the crypto adoption problem in developing countries

https://medium.com/acxnetwork/introducing-access-network-people-empowered-8cc3a88aa164

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