Mobile Internet Applications in Rural Africa

On June 28, 2012, Africa Rural Connect's Molly Mattessich contributed as a guest columnist to Cisco's Deborah Strickland's blog "Mobile Internet Applications in Rural Africa." According to Molly, "In some ways, rural countries, including those in Africa, are ahead of the United States on technology. Without the infrastructure - offices, network lines, etc. - to use the Internet in more traditional ways, they have relied on cell phones to exchange information."

Molly then continues, "According to Cisco's recent VNI Service Adoption Forecast (VNI-SA) research...the Middle East and Africa will have the second-highest number of [consumer mobile] users in 2016, reaching 424 million."

To read more of Molly's remarks about mobile applications in Africa and ARC, please check out Deborah's Cisco blog.