Thursday, October 27, 2005

Cellphone use changes life in Africa

From banking to information for farming, market prices, and wildlife monitoring... There is no doubt at all that communication can revolutionize development.

Here is another article that talks about plugging Africa's poor into mobile banking. Africans have started using cellphones for bank transfers, but the so-to-be-called-developed-nations are still stuck on credit and debit cards! Kind of ironical... Africa is going straight to wireless, instead of taking the traditional route of going to wired, and then augmenting with wireless.

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