• Tolu Ogunlesi,
• During the early years of mobile in Africa, the Short Messaging Service (SMS) was at the heart of the revolution.
• Today the next frontier for mobile use in Africa is the internet.
• "Mobile is fast becoming the PC of Africa," says Osibo Imhoitsike, market coordinator for Sub-Saharan Africa at Norwegian firm Opera
• In 2007, President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, said: "In 10 short years, what was once an object of luxury and privilege, the mobile phone, has become a basic necessity in Africa."
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• AGRICULTURE

   

  Mobile phones have made a huge difference in the lives of farmers in a continent where the agriculture sector sis one of the largest employers. Most of these people will be "smallholder farmers," without access to financing or technology.

   

  By serving as platforms for sharing weather information, market prices, and micro-insurance schemes, mobile phones are allowing Africa's farmers to make better decisions, translating into higher-earning potentials. Farmers are able to send a text message to find out crop prices in places thousands of kilometers away.

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• Africa's "Thomas Edison" in the Making: Self Taught Sierra Leonean Teen Vows MIT
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• Submarine Cable Map

   

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