Rwanda Leapfrog

Rwanda had no landline telephone infrastructure. Building a nationwide network would cost billions. So Rwanda skipped straight to mobile phones. The country leapfrogged the entire technology generation. Capital that would have gone to telephone poles went to cell towers instead. Rwanda avoided the sunken costs that locked wealthier countries into older technology. That pattern repeated. Rwanda deployed drone delivery for medical supplies in remote areas. Zipline drones carry blood, vaccines, and medication to clinics that would take hours to reach by truck. Technology solved geography. Scale of investment stayed low because infrastructure wasn't required. Leapfrogging avoided legacy costs.