Apparently in Dakar, Senegal, the septic system services industry is run as a cartel, and an associate professor out of the University of Virginia is fighting it with an app that some are calling “Uber for Poop.”
Typically in Dakar, you either hire someone with a shovel and a bucket, or you visit a parking lot behind the national football stadium where all the vacuum truck drivers hang out and fix prices. When one of them offers a price, it’s final. They’ve all agreed not to compete and to keep prices high.
That’s where the app comes in. Associate professor
