236. Somaliland in the News. A look back at this innovative country.

I visited Somaliand in 2011. One thing I learned is how they had bootstrapped their own "mobile money" on feature phones. Here's the detailed trip report I wrote up.

This post was originally published for the Windows team (and extended audience) on my Microsoft SharePoint site and shared with key people at the Gates Foundation. It is reproduced as originally posted. The country has made enormous progress in 15 years as evidenced by this comparison from X member and candidate for Nassau County Legislature (where I sp…