The Kenya Fiber Optic

Kenya has been anticipating the arrival of the fiber optic which is now down at the Kenyan coast. So much has been said about the reduced costs of internet access and its reliability. A bridging of the digital gap i guess is what most people anticipate. Access to the one resource that has been a boom in the last two decades or so in developing countries;a new Kenya. But is that the end of it? Cheap fast reliable internet...then what? There has to be more than just that. The mobile phone for example is one successfully adopted technology. With the mobile technology boom there has been been a provision of new services such as MPESA. But even then, there will not be so much of a future if all we have on the mobile phone is MPESA...banking the un-banked; then what? All this technology has to be able to transform livelihoods and truly make the world flat.