Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Exploring cell phone and internet use explosion in Africa

clipped from www.helium.com

Carlos Fortin, the Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) argues that mobiles "have the potential to assist developing countries leap frog entire stages of development." Interestingly, research carried out by the London Business School, into the relationship between mobile telephony and economic growth in developing countries, supports this idea, indicating, "that an extra ten phones per 100 people in a typical developing country increases GDP growth by 0.6% points".

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

Por acaso era interessante ter estudos sobre os mercados Angolano e Moçambicano, sobre utilização de Internet, E-mail, e Telemóvel ... alguma ideia onde começar a procurar? (Não vale o Google)

Unknown said...

esqueci-me de seguir o post...

Unknown said...

Engraçado.. um dia depois deste post, sai um post no blogue do Google, com dados interessantes:
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:KOR:USA#met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:BRA:AGO:PRT:MOZ

Agora, sabemos pelo recente estudo da marktest que em Portugal 54% da população (acima dos 15) utiliza a Internet.