Developing Countries: Mobile Phones
(asked on 10th March 2016) - View Source
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.
This question was answered on 16th March 2016
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.