Mobile Africa: From the roots up
-For an industry that revolves around human relationships, is technology the future?
Part 1
Part 2
Produced by Clare Salisbury
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Clare:
Thanks for some great work it in personalizing how SMS is changing lives in Africa. This is such a huge field that I could easily see a media “channel” of sorts doing more of this sort of thing. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more of your work!
Thankyou Bob. I’ve so enjoyed a summer of getting to know the people whose lives are really being affected by SMS. Interesting idea about the media channel, SMS and M4D have such a rapidly growing presence in the media. It’d be fantastic if something like this could happen. Thanks again!