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Written Question
Developing Countries: Mobile Phones
Wednesday 16th March 2016

Asked by: Lucy Frazer (Conservative - South East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support the Government is providing to enable developing countries to harness mobile phone technology.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Our partnership with mobile phone operator group, the GSMA, has used mobile technology to improve the reach, delivery and affordability of basic energy, water and sanitation services for 1.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and many of our other programmes in health, education and other sectors use mobile technology.