PC World Africa Infrastructure

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In this PC World/IDG News Service column, Ken Banks explores how Africa’s rapidly expanding mobile network infrastructure — originally built to deliver voice and data services — could be repurposed to address the continent’s acute shortage of weather monitoring stations, helping farmers and communities better anticipate and respond to climate-related shocks. He points to Grameen Foundation’s mobile services for Ugandan farmers as an early example of mobile technology being used to deliver targeted agricultural information.