By John Lee. The market for smartphones in Iraq has reportedly grown by 86 percent year-on-year in Q4 2023. According to research by Canalys, this has come, "despite rising restrictions on US dollar cash withdrawals by local banks exacerbating a shortage and driving up the parallel market exchange rate." It says that vendors including TRANSSION […]
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Baghdad's "Irrational Optimists"
By Robert Tollast. An interview with Mohamed Ridha, of the Baghdad entrepreneurial tech collective Fikra Space. So what on earth is a hackerspace? Since the essence of the concept is open source, it seems apt (although not so professional!) to quote Wikipedia, which has the most succinct definition. According to the page a hackerspace is, […]
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