'Welcome to My Taxi - Let's Do Business With My Cell Phone'

In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone. Chris Stein reports for allAfrica.com. Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa detaila how phone access can be used as a money-making tool.

In Lusaka, Zambia, Botha said she encountered a taxi driver who would make money by researching and diagnosing people's diseases using his phone's internet browser.

And in rural Kenya, Botha said she interviewed an orphanage worker who used to make money by hiring out her phone for use, until other people in town got their own mobiles. Now she makes money by charging other people's phone batteries," Botha said.

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emily | 8:32 AM | Mobile phone projects - Developing World |
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