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Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:38:04 +0100

I am Adult Mentor for a Community Based , Grassroots Youth Group of College Graduates and School Leavers involved in Media for Development Projects in Mutare District, Manicaland Province , Zimbabwe. Our mission is to spread the word on development issues in the areas of Health, Education, Water, Agriculture, Entrepreneurship development among the youth in rural areas and peri-urban areas of Mutare using all forms of multimedia ( particularly Mobile phones, Audio and Visual Services). We would like to affiliate with your organization to promote the use of mobile services in development work involving the youth, families and communities at large. Currently we have PA / Sound / Audio Systems for workshops, conferences Road Shows : Hitachi Projector and Screen for outdoor and interior Shows, Documentaries,... Computers and Printers for print media, Digital Cameras and Video Cameras for projects. Our youth and communities are now having access to mobile phones more than computers. Hence, we would wish to promote the use of mobile services to promote development. We would be very grateful for your support. Yours Faithfully Samson Nyasha Munyuki Ncube - Samson Nyasha Munyuki Ncube

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Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:05:47 +0100

The penetration of mobile phones is increasing in developing countries which is making them a viable way to provide much needed services to people in remote areas. Using a mobile is far easier than a computer especially if you are iliterate which makes it an ideal platform to push out in developing areas. - three mobile phones

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:52:50 +0100

Despite world mobile phone ownership approaching 60%, we should question whether ICT is a panacea either for equity or economic sustainability. GSM subscriptions in Africa grow at 50% p.a. until now 1 in 3 owns a mobile, but the GDP of Sub-Saharan Africa falls: from 7% in 2007 to 3.5% expected in 2009. Meanwhile the income divide widens, despite 24% of humanity now accessing the Internet and claims that the digital divide is history (arguable given the new broadband divide). The poorest 40% of the world account for only 5% of global income, the richest 20% for 75%. 3 billion earn < $2.5 per day and 1 billion live in slum squalor, that doubling by 2030. 1.2 billion still cannot read or write a simple sentence, let alone type on a computer- if they could afford its access. Numerous applications of internet and mobiles for benefiting the poor are vaunted: from microfinance, to market price information, to SMS use for health tracking. Yet, why do people in Mali and Uganda and elsewhere devote a disproportionate amount of their scant income to mobile use, putting it even before their basic needs? For example education, the key to empowerment, requires students and facilitator engaged in a two-way, adaptive dialogue at their own pace - hardly possible over a mobile at the extortionate connection charges levied in the Sub-Sahara. Network operators have had little incentive to explore interactive, off-network applications, except for the one-way download of music or ‘podcasts’. But, collapsing flash memory prices mean that everyone can afford their own private data with which they interact offline on a cheap shared handset. A win-win enterprise, 'Voices in Your Hand' (ViYH) for digital inclusion became a major pilot sponsored by Philips in a Brazilian shantytown. A customized MP3 handset enabled people to download personalized audio programs and exchange voice emails. The audio streams were digitally marked-up, enabling selection of alternate content paths and eliciting spoken or numeric user feedback for subsequent upload: like ‘talking back to the radio’. It became the community’s favourite media channel, youth producing their own local content, mixed with that of external NGO’s. This general model, applied using cheap mobile phones and data cards offers wide potential for the poor or illiterate, whether in urban slums or remote villages lacking electricity, and much stronger applications than SMS. see http://voices.stanford.edu References 1. Diga, K. (2008), Mobile Cell Phones and Poverty Reduction…among Households in Uganda, http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/papers/position_paper-diga-2008pdf.pdf 2. Philips Sustainability Report (2004), pp. 31-33, http://www.philips.com/shared/assets/Downloadablefile/SAR_2004-15667.pdf - Paul Rankin

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:14:47 +0100

Mobile phone service is directly connected with consumer and so If it is good than It will increase the company value and also quality status to in market. - buy r4i