INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.
The quick rise of
mobile phone use in poor countries is well known as an excellent case of
a technology enabling bottom-up empowerment through information right to use,
driven by smallmargin selling and end-user modernism. While
many are not mobile phone owners themselves, few today
face a several mile walk to access an often-disconnected landline phone for message,
which was a regular event only ten years ago. But even as some spectacle at the
rapid changes brought about by mobile phone use, a second age group boom is
already happening, developing ground-breaking application
for the now extensive mobile phone stage.
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