Bottom of the pyramid in i4d magazine
An article in the June 2007 issue of the Indian-based international magazine i4d discusses DIRSI’s survey on mobile use by poor urban populations in eight countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mobile Opportunities: Bottom of the pyramid mobile access by LIRNE. NET coordinator Amy Mahan is one of two articles by LIRNE.NET members in the issue. The other, by RIA! researchers Christoph Stork, Steve Esselaar and Ali Ndiwalana looks at mobile banking in Africa, arguing that a “paradigm shift needs to occur in order to determine how the poor might be profitably brought into the banking sector.”
The i4d (Information For Development) print magazine is one its kind, and is intended to provide a much-needed platform for exchange of information, ideas, opinions and experiences, both inside and outside the Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) sector. While several electronic publications do currently exist, i4d is one of the few that address the need by utilizing the strength and potential of the print media.
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