{"id":244,"date":"2015-10-28T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2016-12-16T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T08:33:25","slug":"mobile-phones-in-rural-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phones in Rural Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/facebook-africa-social-media-network-faces-challenges-reaching-rural-populations-1994667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/facebook-africa-social-media-network-faces-challenges-reaching-rural-populations-1994667\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-245 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/central-africa-e1446029034277.jpg\" alt=\"central-africa\" width=\"639\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/central-africa-e1446029034277.jpg 639w, https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/central-africa-e1446029034277-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/central-africa-e1446029034277-304x228.jpg 304w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 639px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 639\/480;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mobiles phones are transforming rural Africa.\u00a0The network grows faster, 20.135 million (77% of the population!!!) in a 2015 estimate per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/mz.html\" target=\"_blank\">The World Fact Book<\/a>, based on the investment of private providers,\u00a0but the electrical network\u00a0does not. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Fact\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>In 2012 only 35.3% of sub-Saharan Africa had access to electricity, <a href=\"http:\/\/wdi.worldbank.org\/table\/3.7\" target=\"_blank\">according to the World Bank.<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span> Can we design\u00a0a simple and easy solution to charge your cellphone while creating a community amenity?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe articles\u00a0below show that mobile networks have a direct impact on life in sub-Saharan Africa:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/13\/world\/africa\/mobile-phones-change-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seven ways mobile phones have changed lives in Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"main-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruralsystem.com\/2014\/07\/27\/on-the-effects-of-mobile-phones-on-poverty-in-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">On the Effects of Mobile Phones on Poverty in Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"single-title\" class=\"main-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/59726\/rural-africa-is-the-most-expensive-place-on-earth-to-charge-a-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rural Africa is the most expensive place on earth to charge a\u00a0phone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/plugged-in\/charging-a-mobile-phone-in-rural-africa-is-insanely-expensive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charging a mobile phone in rural Africa is insanely expensive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is the solution for this prevailing problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobiles phones are transforming rural Africa.\u00a0The network grows faster, 20.135 million (77% of the population!!!) in a 2015 estimate per\u00a0The World Fact Book, based on the investment of private providers,\u00a0but the electrical network\u00a0does not. Fact\u00a0In 2012 only 35.3% of sub-Saharan Africa had access to electricity, according to the World Bank.\u00a0Question Can we design\u00a0a simple and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rm-arquisign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}