Informal Economies Hack Everything.

From Timbuktu Chronicles Fri Oct 31 2014, 13:47:00

Steve Daniels writing in Medium:

image courtesy of Steve Daniels

At Makeshift, we have reported on countless cases of jugaad, gambiarra, bricolage, and jua kali. These are the names various cultures have given to an informal kind of making--the duct-tape economy. SIM card hackers in Accra fused SIM cards together well before phone manufacturers designed multi-SIM devices. And following the tropical storm Nock-ten, Bangkok's citizens hacked their way across floods before official disaster relief could come to their aid.

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