In Rural Africa, a Fertile Market for Mobile Phones
Posted in: Digital Divide at 06/10/2009 18:56
Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have electricity.
When the battery dies, Mr. Rutagumirwa, a 50-year-old farmer, walks just over four miles to charge it so he can maintain his position as communication hub and banana-disease tracker for his rural neighbors.
To read this report in The New York Times in full, see:
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/science/06uganda.html