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Mobile phones very useful as complementary tool to ICT4D
In our field of work (closing the digital divides without broadband), the development and deployment of mobile phones have been given tremendous boost to ICT in mass Educatoin to reach out to the rural areas.
In the past in the absence of mobile signals and land lines, rural areas have been largely deprived of connectivities.
It is much much cheaper to get a mobile phone than to install satellite links in rural areas. Mobile towers serve many other purposes other than education and becomes economically viable to be installed unlike trying to lay out broadband just for Internet access.
Since the standard modules of our AGE platform is very small indeed, using mobile phones to provide good contents to rural schools have become cheap and easily affordable.
Alan Foo
www.paperlesshomework.com
Specialist in closing the digitial divides of rural underserved communities.