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• NYTimes.com: Cellphones Catapult Rural Africa to 21st Century
• USAToday.com: Africa's cell phone boom creates a base for low-cost banking
• SignOnSanDiego.com: Cell phone frenzy in Africa, world's top growth market
• Worlpress.org: Bridging the Digital Divide - Africa's Poor Connection
• Economist.com: Buy, cell, hold - Mobile Phones in Africa
• OhmyNews.com: Women Fight for Rights with Cell Phones
• NextBillion.net: Cell phones plug Africa's poor into mobile banking
• TMC.net: Cell Phone Use in Africa on the Rise as Mobile Carriers Return
• Mongabay.com: Cell phones may help "save" Africa

 

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Rural Women Produce Radio Programs on Human Rights Violations

Rural women in KwaZulu Natal will produce their own radio programs on human rights issues affecting them. This is an initiative of the UmNyango Project, which currently provides SMS technology for rural women and men in KwaZulu Natal. The men and women access information via this technology and use it to report incidences of violence against women and children and violations of women’s rights to land.

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FAST FACTS

 

ITU: Africa is now the “the world’s fastest growing mobile market”

 

Between 1998 and 2003, the increase of subscriptions to cell phones surpassed subscriptions for fixed lines by over one thousand percent (1000%).

 

The annual average growth rate of cell phone use in Africa is 65% compared to 33% for the rest of the world.