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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

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At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. Voice remains the killer app. I’ve been part of two particular SMS health projects that have convinced me of the viability of this approach. .

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

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Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out. What Can We Do, Then?

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