For Uganda's poor, a cellular connection

More than a third of Uganda's population, about 10 million people own a cell phone - a counry where only 10 percent of the population has electricity - and many more have access to these phones through family members and neighbors. Cell phones can be found in every desolate corner of the countryside, where 85 percent of the country's residents live. With the dire need to be connected, people go to great lengths to use cell phones, charging them with car batteries or solar chargers.

Several nonprofits have begun thinking that the best way to reach the country's poor and get them much needed information is through their phones.

Read full article in Cnet news.

emily | 10:40 AM | Mobile phone projects - Developing World |
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