Are cocktails and crypto in your future? They very well may be. The nation of Mauritius (located 700 miles east of Madagascar) appears set to be dubbed "ethereum island" .
After a visit to mauritius from consensys in july, the following rationale was offered:
ConsenSys can enable new services and businesses to be built on the blockchain technology. On Mauritius, they propose to establish the basics of a blockchain ecosystem with digital identities and registration, a process of verification, and decentralization of information. From there they plan to form a group of developers, regulators, and entrepreneurs to keep the system going by creating applications and organizations using blockchain technology. The island has well established communications, business, finance and information technology with also some of the best infrastructure and education in the region, thus attracting investors from the blockchain space. The project to provide free Wi-Fi accessible all over the island makes a suiting environment for blockchain technology and business to thrive.