Reading the news today, I’ve found a couple whose contrast has shocked me. It is about the differences in the process of mobile services adoption in developing and third world countries.
Some developing countries are on the race for an intensive use of mobile technologies. In fact, some countries are adopting some kind of services as mobile banking faster than first-world countries, since there are places where cell phones are more common than bank accounts. In the other hand, other countries are stuck in the past, many times due to political questions.
An example of that, the situation in Philippines and Ethiopia. While the first is making an intensive use of cell phones as electronic wallets, Ethiopians are happy to have SMS back with them. While Filipinos could harness SMS for ousting former president, Ethiopians couldn’t and paid for it: SMS were disallowed for two years!!!
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