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It might have helped to model an account system where customers belonged to accounts and addresses belonged to accounts. Customers can then have multiple addresses by their association to the account and the unique constraint (if required) could have been applied on the account<->address relationship.

What would be a good replacement for the bail system?

I think the non-profit system might deserve some exploration. I posted above about a TED talk I watched recently on the subject and their numbers look quite interesting. It'd be great to see it replicated elsewhere.

I was just watching a TED talk about this very subject[1]. Its technically about non-profit bail fund - Freedom Fund[2].

Edit: Added website link.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B24RaqA33k [2] - http://www.thebronxfreedomfund.org/

I think one of the side-effects of this is that there are other slack teams created to help keep communications among colleagues private-ish. This leads to cliques and tends to isolate new employees who may not yet be in those "teams".

I think you may be over-simplifying and over-generalizing "the African way" in this case. I'm actually surprised that they didn't want to learn the "loop button". Old cassette players even had a "loop button" that some of the not so educated could use. Their unfamiliarity with the computer and its likely "malfunctioning" in the past may be the reason they wanted to keep it as it was. The behaviour of the people is only a symptom in this case.

As for the low hanging fruit, there are many other more urgent areas of focus that bump this down the list - poverty and healthcare being a few [1]. Ghana's democracy is still very young and education hasn't completely permeated every region quite yet. It'll take some time to get where much of the developed world is right now.

[1] http://www.our-africa.org/ghana/

The power/electricity problems still exist, but the access to internet is getting better - some universities have free WiFi access points for their students.

Most of the changes that will help make a difference are all predicated on having computers and electricity available at the very least.

I wish there'd be a bit more focus at the Junior High School level instead of all the way up at the university level since not all the students are able to make it there for several other reasons.

It is improving though, but ever so slowly.