I’ve been back from Nigeria over a month and been steadily working on a presentation to Sundance and the Skoll Foundation. Now that I’m done with the cut, I think we’ve got something really amazing here. I had imagined ten minutes of material (all that I was required to create), but I ended up with 25 good minutes…scenes, characters and a narrative. Of course, I feel good about it!

Indeed, from the very beginning, I wanted to tell a story about Africans returning from the Diaspora to create wealth, not to fight poverty. I wanted the business to be part of the new economy, not traditional ones such as agriculture or extractive mineral industries. It couldn’t be about manufacturing or micro credit. No, I wanted something that would be a potential game changer in Africa.

I believe we’ve found it. SW Global is that company and what they’re doing in Nigeria might change the economic landscape for that country and perhaps the entire region. At the heart of what they’re doing is the creating of accountable and accurate digital identities that allow Nigerians to begin to participate in the formal economy. No one can get on line and purchase goods in Africa and that means the costs are inflated (sometimes two and three times what we pay here in the US) and black markets evolve.

I’m excited and confident that the film will be made. I knew it was an important film. Now, I’m confident it’s going to be a good one.