Saturday, April 12, 2008

NY Times, Cell phones and global poverty...

The NY Times has finally caught on that cell phones are a good platform for communication and connectivity in developing countries...

The title of the article is "Can the cell phone help end global poverty?" which seems like an overstatement... but it's a fairly nice article on an anthropologist from Nokia who does user research in Africa and other developing parts of the world...his mission is to harvest information on people, their cell phone needs and subsequently inform the design of Nokia cell phones...they must be doing a good job because I'm a total Nokia junkie :)

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