Mobile phone network along with the internet is the most astonishing technology story of our time, and one that has the power to revolutionize access to information across the developing world.
Revolutionise education
· The revolution of personally-financed wirelessly-connected computers largely goes unnoticed by the international development community, and because their paradigm revolves around desktops and laptops they spend millions developing specialised laptops for schoolchildren in developing countries.
· The question we should be asking ourselves is "what mobile software can we write that would really add value for a schoolteacher (or student, or health worker, or businessperson)
Banking initiatives
· In South Africa and Nigeria, a variety of mobile banking initiatives have taken off and been embraced by a population that isn't going to be getting "online" anytime soon but who want all the advantages of cashless transactions.
· In Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Zambia, with funding from The Vodafone Group Foundation and the UN Foundation, we've successfully completed a pilot of our EpiSurveyor mobile data collection software for public health
· For the foreseeable future, the cell phone is the computer, and it will be the portal to the internet, and the communications tool, and the schoolbook, and the vaccination record, and the family album, and many other things, just as soon as someone, somewhere, sits down and writes the software that allows these functions to be performed.
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