The human transport journey has moved from camels to modern cars.

But while riding a camel is convenient in harsh rural terrain, our development journey at the crossroads of innovation demands faster movement with the latest affordable technology.

Those in our community that question the need for technology leapfrogging in development need to know if we continue to use camel-era technology on the highway we may get hit by fast cars that have embraced innovation.

Everyone’s favorite example of leapfrogging technology is the mobile phone.

Many developing countries skipped the 20th century landlines and moved straight to the 21st century mobile technology.

India, for instance, now has about 980 million mobile connections, and is adding about 5-7 million new connections every month.

Many of the new mobile users are people who waited for years to get a landline connection, and most have never used one.