SharedSolar » sachs http://sharedsolar.org Smart microgrids for energy access Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:26:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.13 Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty http://sharedsolar.org/2012/07/mobile-phone-weapon-against-global-poverty/ http://sharedsolar.org/2012/07/mobile-phone-weapon-against-global-poverty/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:43:24 +0000 http://sharedsolar.org/?p=1382 Continued]]> Summary

  • Affordable mobile phone access has caused a quantum leap for the world’s poor
  • From 2005 to 2010, cell phone use tripled in the developing world to 4 billion subscriptions
  • In Kenya, mobile phone banking services are used to make $1 billion transactions a month
  • Economist: “The cell phone is the single most transformative technology for development”

Full story

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/09/tech/mobile/mobile-phone-poverty/index.html

 

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