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<div class="title">Thought this might be of interest to Sudo folk,
especially in light of the success of Code for Oakland last
weekend.<br>
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The World Bank in collaboration with InfoDev released this useful
report last week and the intersection of innovation and human
development focusing on the possibilities of mobile apps.<br>
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Maximizing Mobile<br>
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href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Overview.pdf">Mobile
communications</a> offer major opportunities to advance human
development—from providing basic access to health information to
making cash payments to stimulating citizen involvement in
democratic processes.<br>
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Executive Summary</div>
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<li>This report analyzes the growth and evolution of
applications for mobile phones, focusing on their use in
agriculture, health and financial services, as well as their
impact on employment and government. It also explores the
consequences for development of the emerging “app economy”,
summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate
on the use of mobile phones for development. It’s no longer
about the phone itself, but about how it is used, and the
content and applications that mobile phones open. <a
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href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Executive-Summary.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Chapter 1: Overview</div>
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<li>The report’s opening chapter provides an overview of the
broad trends shaping and redefining our understanding of the
word “mobile.” Developing countries are increasingly well
placed to exploit the benefits of mobile communications,
with levels of access rising around the world. The chapter
explores how the bond between mobile operators and users is
loosening, as computer and internet companies invade the
mobile space. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-1.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Chapter 2: Mobilizing the Agricultural Value
Chain</div>
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<li>Increasingly, specialized mobile services are providing
localized information about price, weather and climate,
pest control, cultivation practices, and agricultural
extension services. Chapter 2 examines the emerging uses
of mobile services in agriculture, as well as remote and
satellite technologies that are assisting in food
traceability, sensory detection, and status updates from
the field. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-2.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Chapter 3: mHealth</div>
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<li>Chapter 3 examines some of the key principles and
characteristics of mobile Health (mHealth), and how
mobiles are helping transform and enhance the delivery
of primary and secondary healthcare services. It reviews
on-the-ground implementations of medical healthcare apps
to draw key conclusions as to how mHealth can best be
implemented to serve the needs of people, as well as
identifying the major barriers to be overcome. <a
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href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-3.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Chapter 4: Mobile Money for Financial
Inclusion</div>
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<li>Chapter 4 looks at the use of mobile money as a
general platform and critical infrastructure
underpinning other economic sectors. It shows the
benefits and potential impact of mobile money,
especially for promoting financial inclusion. It
provides an overview of the key factors driving the
growth of mobile money services, the barriers and
obstacles hindering their deployment, and emerging
issues that the industry will face over the coming
years. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-4.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Chapter 5: Mobile Entrepreneurship and
Employment</div>
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<li>This chapter explores the enormous potential of
mobiles for employment, not solely in terms of job
creation, but also their ability to facilitate
entrepreneurship – especially in populations
otherwise disconnected from the economy, encourage
development of transferable technical and business
skills, match jobs with workers and create
opportunities for microwork. <a
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href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-5.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Chapter 6: Making Government Mobile</div>
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<li>Governments are beginning to embrace the
potential for mobile technology to put public
services literally into the pocket of each
citizen, create interactive services, and promote
accountable and transparent governance. Chapter 6
identifies a range of uses for mobile technology
in government that supplement public services,
expand their user base, and generate spinoff
services. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-6.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Chapter 7: Policies for Mobile
Broadband</div>
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<li>The final chapter distinguishes between
supply-side policies (which seek to promote the
expansion of wireless broadband networks) and
demand-side policies (which seek to boost
take-up of wireless broadband services) in the
mobile broadband ecosystem. The chapter provides
policy recommendations for expanding mobile
broadband infrastructure that would address the
key bottlenecks of both supply and demand sides
of mobile broadband. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-7.pdf">Read
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<div class="title">Part II: Key Trends in the
Development of the Mobile Sector</div>
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<li>Part II of the report brings together a
range of mobile indicators for over 150
economies. It also reviews the main trends
shaping the sector, while a new analytical
tool is also introduced for tracking the
progress of economies at different levels of
economic development in widening access,
improving supply and stimulating demand for
mobile services. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Appendix-1.pdf">Read
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