We are in E-health so focused on writing software for E-health platforms as well as supporting the government in deploying these solutions in our environment.
I run a small software company in Zambia and quite aware of the needs here.
Unmet needs include: Power generation (Solar/Wind setups), Building natively useful electronic devices - if you see my other post, I am looking for some farm security devices, agriculture technology that actually (not cosmetically) helps people.
Argh. I have this pretty bad. Currently sitting on 254 kindle books and we hard paper books.
I have thought a lot about what I have spent and keep spending on books, and my conclusion/justification is:
1. I had to teach myself programming now running a company which has required quit a lot of knowledge which is spread among technical/business/people. The best way for me to gain deep knowledge is to read a book on whatever I need since experts or mentors are hard to come by in my part of town. Books are my education.
2. I really don't have a lot of friends, rarely go out and only watch a few shows so books are my gateway and I can justify the expense that way too.
3. I have very varied interests so I just completed re-reading All Quite on the Western Front, now on Deng Xiaoping of China with some Terry Pratchett to spice things up - I can comfortably justify the cost on just that on the moment engagement on whatever mood am in.
4.At about $11 per book average, 254 books bought in past 3 years. It works out to 2794 or about $80 on books per month...I routinely spend a lot more on worse/forgettable stuff. My books are top up there in terms of best and most tangible things I have done with funds. Put another way, would I have done something better with that $2700? Nothing that I haven't still managed to do with books making me all the better for it.
Finally, I am happy with the actual number of books because it ensures I can always find something that speaks to me in whatever mood and some general frameworks for most business/work situations I come up.
Now if some book could tell me why am here justifying my book habit ;)
Looking for a great Golang developer to come and help us complete an application built from Golang that deploys to Windows and Linux while syncing between the two servers.
We are looking for someone who can get up to speed very fast and be able to work quite independently and produce good code that will checked.