[Chapter-delegates] Fighting Homelessness, One Smartphone at a Time

[Christian de Larrinaga]

Olivier

To extend your point a bit further.

There is no doubt of the transformative effects that wireless voice and
in particular messaging via the unexpected SMS service particularly
combined with SIM / IMEI to secure small transactions has had since the
mid 90s.

But there is a problem with cell which is the telephony carrier business
and service command and control deployment model.

My preference for promoting a platform that would be truly
transformative over wireless would not be cell but wireless Internet
services. That is the only effective way to bring the power of
application and service innovation to the people locally. It's the
difference between being dependent (on cell) to being in the driving
seat (Internet data network) both from enabling new networks to be set
up by people themselves to their developing and deploying applications.


Christian




Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> 
> 
> On 15/04/2015 02:38, Glenn McKnight wrote:
>> Melinda Gates, who leads the Gates Foundation with Mr. Gates, wrote in
>> The New York Times
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/business/dealbook/melinda-gates-cellphones-for-women-aid-ascent-from-poverty.html> this
>> month that cellphones are essential to lifting women in developing
>> countries out of poverty.
> 
> What is novel about this statement? ICT 4 D (ICT for Development) has
> been recognized for years and with most of the Internet access in
> developing countries taking place on mobile devices, cellphones have had
> a significant role in lifting *everyone* out of poverty in developing
> countries, not only women. Still, some governments dispute this and
> that's where I think the emphasis should be.
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> -- 
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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