Okay, I'm here with Brain from South Africa.

Yeah.

So why don't you start by introducing yourself to the listeners?

Okay, I'm Brain, like you said earlier.

I represent the technological aspects from Pan Africa,

and I currently sit on the Technology Advice Report.

I predominantly still work as a developer.

And I write code on a daily basis, love writing code. Very good. Very good. So what would you

like to talk about? What would I like to talk about? My passions are, they spend a lot of things.

So I've got a, my background is in computational intelligence. I've got a PhD in computational intelligence. Spent a lot of things. So I've got a, my background is in computational intelligence.

I've got a PhD in computational intelligence.

Spent a lot of time actually building systems,

biometric systems, and then did a switch and ended up back in software.

Okay.

My other passion is around revolutionizing IT in the continent.

For a long time, Africa keeps being seen as a place where technology cannot emerge.

We're beginning to see different trends emerge in the continent, mobile payment systems,

something which most places wouldn't have thought would work.

But people are actually paying each other in Africa with their cell phones. And I'm not talking smart devices, I'm talking

your low-end text message kind of phones, your burner phones. Like using text message or what kind

of technology are? So simplistic, from text messages,

there's a lot of systems that have been built.

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