Now Coming: Social
Mobiles
Mobile
technology is increasingly being applied for social tasks involving
commoners like students, farmers, and others. Partnership between
Telefonica and Nokia to provide educational content to remote schools in
Latin America through mobile technology is a recent example.
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Recently, telecom company
Ericsson and pan-African operator Zain
have built a wind- and solar-powered site in remote northeast Kenya.
Now, with access to mobile communication, villagers in Dertu can make
calls, access health services and education.
Global
mobile operators’ association
GSMA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
have partnered to offer financial services through mobile phones. Mobile
Money for the Unbanked (MMU) program is intended to provide mobile money
services for people living on less than US$2 a day.
Targeting socio-economic applications, in October last year,
Thomson Reuters expanded its service for India's
agricultural community in the Punjab state. Reuters Market
Light, which provides commodity prices, crop and weather data via mobile
phone, is adopted by over 3,000 subscribers in Punjab. It has already
got 60,000 subscriptions for this service in Maharashtra state, it says.
Also, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global tech outsourcing
organization in India, has introduced its
mobile based crop-advisory service, mKrishi.
It aims to help rural farmers throughout India have better access to
information through a cell phone application.
Telefonica Foundation that works for social development through
education and Nokia have signed an agreement to bring educational
content to remote schools in Latin America through the use of mobile
technology. The partners aim to deliver “education in isolated areas as
a way to close the digital inclusion gap in the region and promote
social development.”
The
agreement, explains Nokia, will help expand the current scope of
Telefonica Foundation's "Pronino" and "Educared" social programs that
focus on technology use for education.
The
first implementation of this agreement is planned for Chile, where
Telefonica's mobile broadband and Nokia's advanced mobile software Nokia
Education Delivery will enable isolated schools in Chile to have access
to educational content. This will include tools and services for
students, fathers, and teachers via Educared. ...Continued
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