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“If I had told you ten years ago that by the end of 2007 there would be an international network of wirelessly-connected computers throughout the developing world, you might well have said it wasn’t possible. I would probably have said the same, but as it turns out we would have been wrong: it was possible, and it was created, and it continues to expand, not through Non-Governmental Organisations or charity or development grants but through the market, with much of it financed by some of the poorest people on the planet. I am talking, of course, about the mobile phone network”. In this article, Dr Joel Selanikio of DataDyne talks about the growth of mobiles in Africa, and their contribution to the development of the continent.