By David South, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions SOUTH-SOUTH CASE STUDY Technology is fuelling unprecedented growth in productivity in Asia, with sub-Saharan Africa languishing behind (International Labour Organization). But the growth in mobile phones could help close this gap, as home-grown entrepreneurs are stepping up to exploit this new opportunity. Mobile phone applications are proving a boon to […]
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By David South, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions SOUTH-SOUTH CASE STUDY Informa Telecoms and Media estimates mobile networks now cover 90 per cent of the world’s population – 40 per cent of whom are covered but not connected. The rapid growth in take-up has made mobile phones the big success story of the 21st century. With such reach, finding […]
By David South, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions SOUTH-SOUTH CASE STUDY Bangladesh’s poor can now buy and sell goods and services with their mobile phones, thanks to a Bangladeshi company’s pioneering mobile phone marketplace. The company, CellBazaar, serves as a useful role model for other Southern entrepreneurs and companies looking to develop and market mobile phone applications for the […]
There are now more than 3.5 billion mobile phones in use around the world. In the past five years, their use and distribution has exploded across the global South, including in once hard-to-reach places in Africa. In fact, Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market. Over the past five years the continent’s mobile […]
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