To be fair, NGO's are often reluctant to do so for several reasons. 1. There's no guarantee that a given community will accept the technology (for whatever reasons...religious, cultural, they don't perceive a need, don't trust the device/organization/person, etc.); 2. NGO's often require a community or family to put forward a small amount of money or labor towards the service to ensure that it's something they honestly want and will use. £65 (or a portion of that) is simply too much to ask; and 3. your product probably lacked the network infrastructure (community contacts, etc.) at launch that other, etsablished programs already had. Those on-the-ground contacts are the #1 factor that contributes to a project's success.
Tl;dr: There's more to development/service projects than a product.
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To be fair, NGO's are often reluctant to do so for several reasons. 1. There's no guarantee that a given community will accept the technology (for whatever reasons...religious, cultural, they don't perceive a need, don't trust the device/organization/person, etc.); 2. NGO's often require a community or family to put forward a small amount of money or labor towards the service to ensure that it's something they honestly want and will use. £65 (or a portion of that) is simply too much to ask; and 3. your product probably lacked the network infrastructure (community contacts, etc.) at launch that other, etsablished programs already had. Those on-the-ground contacts are the #1 factor that contributes to a project's success.
Tl;dr: There's more to development/service projects than a product.
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