With a price ratio 1:20 comparing to PCs and a vaste majority of the population living with few dollars a day, it’s a no brainer to understand why mobile penetration is 10 times bigger in emerging countries.
For that reason, we will see mobile innovations coming from those countries in years to come.
Want signs of this?
South Africa is about to release a voting system through mobile for local, regional and even national election.
Bangladesh mobile operator Grameen Phone has gave information access (information is key for a farmer, for example. It’s helping him to know to where and when to sell his production instead of relying on local resellers) to poor people through 16 millions lines.
M-banking is the future of banking in Midle East & Africa (Etisalat has released last month a mobile wallet)
I see more and more mobile innovations coming from Africa (see dreamoval), middle east and of course India & china.
Kill cliches about tech innovation always coming from developed countries and remember
from the necessity come the creativity
If you know any others innovations there, please continue the discussion by leaving comments
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[...] Mobile penetration and usage is even more impressive (150% in the UAE), see my previous post on this: Mobile innovation, start looking at emerging countries. [...]