- Africa has adopted smarter means of overcoming the problems of lack of physical connectivity and access to reliable electricity by progressing towards a mobile digital revolution.
- It is inching closer towards its claim of being ‘mobile continent’ as most of the online activities which are normally preformed using laptops or computers are being performed using mobile phones.
- This is due to the declining price of handsets, faster transmission speeds, social media, content-rich apps, videos and faster cash transfer services in the remotest area of the poorest continent in the world.
- Farmers, entrepreneurs and others make the maximum use of this as mobile phones as cheap as £30 can be obtained.
- For example, MedAfrica is a mobile app provides basic information about health and medicine, thereby reducing travel and the pressure on doctors.
- The use is expected to increase 20-fold in the next 5 yrs along with substantial increase in mobile subscriptions and voice call traffic here as mobile connectivity is no longer a luxury, but a necessity.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/affordability-the-factor-behind-africas-mobile-digital-revolution/article6095990.ece
Exams Perspective:
- Mobile Digital Revolution
- Africa as a hub of Mobile Revolution
- Africa pan e-network
- MedAfrica