Leapfrogging

Was attending an IT function with the attendance of a minister when one of the key speakers who is talking about innovation put up a slide about none other than Leapfrogging to make his point! muhaha...of course he is oblivious to the current talk in the blogsphere pertain "katak-ing" but man.. i just couldnt help but chuckle out loud... anyway the description of leapfrogging from the wikis is so true ! not only from a technology stand point but from all perspective!

here is the description from wikipedia:

Leapfrogging is a theory of development in which developing countries may accelerate development by skipping inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones.

An aim of leapfrogging technologies is to promote greater access to resources and other technologies, to those people who would normally not have access.

There are a few ways that leapfrogging can occur, some of which are accidentally .....