Does mobile phone improve equality?
This is a question to be answered by Laura Stark, a professor in the Jyväskylä University, Finland. (link in Finnish). She has received 450,000 euros for a four year research project that wil take her to Camroon, Kenya, Tansania, South-Africa, Ghana, Bangladesh and India.
This is a topic that I have studied a bit myself with our nanovalo project. I interviewed close to 100 people from Cameroon, Finland, and elsewhere in Europe. The results are still to be published *), but I have a strong feeling that having a mobile phone in the family in developing countries is bringing a lot of good to the women. The benefits are many:
- better access to healthcare, information on AIDS etc
- better access to education, internet enabling new study methods
- keeping in touch with family members abroad (often more valued by mothers)
- daughter to be able to keep contact to family while away working
- mobile enabled microloans have made women into entrepreneurs
Let's hope we don't need to wait for four years to hear from Laura again.
*) I handed in the paper to Helsinki University of Technology in July 2009. It was not accepted as a strategy paper (as it reads on the front page now), but the professor proposed it to be modified into a marketing paper instead. In the process of re-writing it from marketing point-of-view, I thought it may be useful for someone to make the original paper available here.
Hiding in plain daylight
This is a topic that I have studied a bit myself with our nanovalo project. I interviewed close to 100 people from Cameroon, Finland, and elsewhere in Europe. The results are still to be published *), but I have a strong feeling that having a mobile phone in the family in developing countries is bringing a lot of good to the women. The benefits are many:
- better access to healthcare, information on AIDS etc
- better access to education, internet enabling new study methods
- keeping in touch with family members abroad (often more valued by mothers)
- daughter to be able to keep contact to family while away working
- mobile enabled microloans have made women into entrepreneurs
Let's hope we don't need to wait for four years to hear from Laura again.
*) I handed in the paper to Helsinki University of Technology in July 2009. It was not accepted as a strategy paper (as it reads on the front page now), but the professor proposed it to be modified into a marketing paper instead. In the process of re-writing it from marketing point-of-view, I thought it may be useful for someone to make the original paper available here.
Hiding in plain daylight
I have a strong feeling that having a mobile phone in the family in developing countries is bringing a lot of good to the women. The benefits are many:
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As you mentioned some of the major benefits here I can't understand why they pay such a big amount of money to Laura for conducting the research which has no value in its outcomes.:
better access to healthcare, information on AIDS etc
- better access to education, internet enabling new study methods
- keeping in touch with family members abroad (often more valued by mothers)
- daughter to be able to keep contact to family while away working
- mobile enabled microloans have made women into entrepreneurs
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