Ajit points to a good BBC article on the changes in communications in Nigeria in the past 25 years.
The same theme keeps popping up – the mobile phone is transforming the developing world. And, as Ajit says, it’s about communications. Fuse the mobile with the Internet and watch how creative people, without PCs and fixed-line phones, can be.
And to think that the next billion phones will mostly be like folks like these Nigerians.
Link: Open Gardens: How mobile phones are transforming societies.
The interesting bit is – I observed the same phenomenon with Cable TV more than twelve years ago when I last lived in India. Once people get connected, their aspirations rise, they become more informed, corrupt politicians can’t cheat them, governments can’t censor information easily
This is just the beginning ..
many thanks for your post charlie. kind rgds Ajit