On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.mu> wrote:
> Hi SM,
>
> On 18/06/16 12:54, S Moonesamy wrote:
> >
> > I read https://hacklog.mu/national-innovation-framework/ Yesterday, I
> > read about a Startup in South Africa. I also watched a video about
> > Shenzhen, China. I found them innovating. One of the interesting part
> > of the Startup was that it created much more than a web site. In
> > comparison with local web sites, it looks like companies expect web
> > developers to find the ideas. Is that why those local web sites are not
> > innovative?
> >
>
> I was having a discussion with a colleague today and he tossed the words
> "creative director". Are web developers expected to be creative directors?
>
Not if you go by how the industry usually describe their staff. Generally
there are two streams: Creatives and engineers. Creatives are designers.
Engineers are developers. A web developer is in the engineering stream.
A creative director is a senior designer. Someone who might set the
creative direction of a project, which then gets executed by the designers.
The equivalent on the engineering side would be a development lead.
> > There are stores where you can buy parts for a hardware product. The
> > price to fix a smartphone screen was Rs 780. For what it is worth,
> > there are local stores which offer similar services. It is probably
> > much more expensive, in Mauritius, to fix a smartphone screen. The cost
> > of an imitation of the iPhone, which was available before the genuine
> > product was launched, was Rs 5,200.
> >
>
> It costs me less to buy something from aliexpress.com and ship it to
> Mauritius, than to post someone a product within Mauritius through
> Mauritius Post. I can understand the hurdle for local businesses just to
> go fully online.
>
> It won't be easy to compete with the "wholesale" price from int'l stores
> and less expensive "shipping" cost. The only downside for us, online
> shopping users, would be the time to wait.
>
> > I see that you counted the number of times the word "we" was mentioned.
> > :-) What was the feedback about 100 Mbits/sec local access?
> >
>
> Oh, it wasn't me who counted. :)
> The feedback on the 100Mbit/s local access is mixed. One person said
> Mauritius does not have an internet problem and that 10Mbit/s over fiber
> for households is sufficient. Another person acknowledged that local
> access will be beneficial to business and encourage more people to host
> locally.
>
> P.S. This email was sent using free WiFi on the University of Mauritius
> campus at 18h04. :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Ish Sookun
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 22 2016 - 13:41:47 PST