Mobile Technology Gamechanger Africa

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A Mashable roundup of ways mobile technology is transforming daily life across Africa, where the rapid, largely computer-free spread of affordable mobile phones has made texting a lifeline rather than a convenience. The piece surveys non-profit initiatives using SMS and mobile tools to deliver health information, K-12 educational curricula and advanced farming techniques to communities across the continent, framing mobiles as a leapfrog technology reaching people that computers and fixed infrastructure never did.