You are writing your arrogant response to me probably holding western passport/residence or being born in the western world, working in western countries.
You use western language learned by very privileged groups of people in the world.
If you are open source developer you will need financial resources and non of the authoritarian regimes will provide you or give contract to develop freedom tech.
You will need to apply for funding in the western countries, organizations like nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f .
With all said above: try to go to Mali and develop, fundraise living there, but not in western world. Im curious to learn about your experience and results.
So for sure, it is important to develop but please decrease your level of ignorance and just do a little effort to understand my position why we need to have safe regulatory environment in western world.