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Nokia to begin offering Life Tools to rural mobile users

This is game-changing right here and Nokia seems to be at the forefront of quite a few initiatives for practical, global use of mobile technologies.

Amplify’d from www.textually.org

Nokia to Offer Life Tools for Rural Mobile Users

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Nokia plans to roll out its Life Tools group of services to more emerging markets following a successful pilot program in India, a company executive said Monday. Yahoo Tech.

quotemarksright.jpgNokia is now formulating plans to roll out Life Tools, which includes agricultural and educational services for rural mobile users, in other emerging markets following the “great success” of a trial conducted in India.

Nokia sees emerging markets in Asia and elsewhere as an important source of growth as the number of mobile subscribers increases and many come to rely on their handsets for Internet access.quotesmarksleft.jpg

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Low Resource Countries + mHealth

The implications of mobile technologies in public health around the world are starting to heat up - with social entrepreneurs and pioneers making strides to improve the quality of life for those living in developing countries, we might be on our way to solving some large problems with very small technology.

Amplify’d from www.economist.com

Developing countries are using mobile phones to leapfrog to personalised medicine

CAN new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest? At first sight, it seems a silly question. After all, the public-health systems in much of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America are rudimentary at best. With many villages having no clean water or basic sanitation, let alone reliable access to clinics and doctors, modern wizardry like molecular diagnostics and digital medical records seem irrelevant.

Bill Gates used to be on the side of the sceptics. Nearly a decade ago, when he was boss of Microsoft, he delivered a speech at a conference on technology for the developing world, inveighing against the idea that modern technologies like satellite communications links, solar power and internet-enabled computers could magically improve the lives of the poorest. Did they have any idea, he asked his listeners, what it means to live on less than $1 a day? “You’re just buying food, you’re trying to stay alive.”

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