Global Digital Divide: How African Countries are Offered Less-Sophisticated Apps
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit two countries in Africa (Nigeria and Morocco). Before then, I had spent the last 13 months living in Europe and visited North America.
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On arrival at Murtala Mohammed International Airport in
#Lagos, I was shocked to find out that peculiar features of some apps I had on my phone were no longer working. For example, Facebook market was not working.@facebook market is an e-commerce platform for FB users.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
I tried to listen to music on
@youtubemusic and I found the same thing. I got the notification "YouTube Music is not available in your area." YouTube Music is an audio music streaming app by YouTube Inc which allows users to listen to music. I had same experience in#Casablanca.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @dami_olisa
Thanks for the tag – while YouTube Music isn’t available yet in Africa, we’re currently working on expanding it to most countries. In the meantime, you can share this with us to help us prioritize requests: https://yt.be/help/feedback
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Thank you. Glad you’re already working to extend YouTube Music reach to African countries.
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