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Countries across the continent are experimenting with this 21st century technology as a way to leapfrog decades of neglect of 20th century infrastructure.
Over the last two years, San Francisco-based startup Zipline launched a national UAV delivery program in East Africa; South Africa passed commercial drone legislation to train and license pilots; and Malawi even opened a Drone Test Corridor to African and its global partners.
In Rwanda, the country's government became one of the first adopters of performance-based regulations for all drones earlier this year. The country's progressive UAV programs drew special attention from the White House and two U.S. Secretaries of Transportation.
[...] After several test rounds, Zipline went live with the program in October, becoming the world's first national drone delivery program at scale.
"We've since completed over 6000 deliveries and logged 500,000 flight kilometers," Zipline co-founder Keenan Wyrobek told TechCrunch. "We're planning to go live in Tanzania soon and talking to some other African countries."
[...] In a non-delivery commercial use case, South Africa's Rocketmine has built out a UAV survey business in 5 countries. The company looks to book $2 million in revenue in 2018 for its "aerial data solutions" services in mining, agriculture, forestry, and civil engineering.
[...] The continent's test programs — and Rwanda's performance-based drone regulations in particular — could advance beyond visual line of sight UAV technology at a quicker pace. This could set the stage for faster development of automated drone fleets for remote internet access, commercial and medical delivery, and even give Africa a lead in testing flying autonomous taxis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @11:54PM
1) First, determine if *you* should "fix this." Specifically, if you are taking personal ownership of fixing things, then you are basically saying it is your right, privilege, and burden to override the will of the local population and subjugate them to what you think is the way the world should work.
2) Having determined you are willing to become a "colonial oppressor," then do it right. Send it a substantial (and presumably benevolent) military force, seize control, and destroy all effective resistance. This will be very expensive and time consuming.
3) Start administering things.
4) Figure out how to decolonize, possibly by slowly incorporating locals into government and "training on the job" with some multi-year plan to withdraw. The slower the withdraw (within reason), the better.
5) Provide the support the fledgling country needs when they need it. (E.g. if Italy has a debt crisis, then other EU and other countries help them... no single country is an island)
6) Repeat for the next area.
I make no claims on the morality and immorality of the above actions. I merely suggest it would be a valid and effective way of "fixing" the "slaughterhouse of administrational incompetence and tyrannical egotism."