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“The future of Africa is indeed “mobile”. Mobile applications for education and healthcare play a major role in all the trends that experts forecast up to the year 2020.”
Gudrun Porath at Future Challenges
In July, Foresight For Development turns the spotlight on the future of mobile.
Featured in Bibliozone this month is a collection of publications related to African & Global mobile futures. The selection of documents is partial and based on accessible material. Therefore, we would like to invite everyone to supplement our library with additional materials.
From our FFD library:
The topics we focus on in this issue include:
- Mobile Futures
- Mobile Technology
- Mobile Communications
- Mobile Traffic
- mPayment
- mHealth
- mLearning
- Other
Mobile Trends 2020 Africa
Mobile Trends Africa brings together the predictions of 30+ industry professionals and local entrepreneurs in Africa. The project is co-curated by Erik Hersman, Ken Banks & Rudy De Waele.
Mobile Africa Report 2011: Regional Hubs of Excellence and Innovation
This report draws on primary research (including questionnaires sent to key mobile stakeholders in Africa) as well as secondary research. In 2008, imports of data enabled phones exceeded that of non-data enabled phones in many African markets. In 2009, the undersea cables hit East and Southern Africa in a big way. In 2010, mobile operators became serious about data availability and cost packaging for everyday Africans. 2011 is expected to bring a new type of data-enabled mobile user in Africa, and brings the mobile web to center stage.
Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity A study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries
Mobile phone ownership in low and middle-income countries has skyrocketed in the past several years. But a woman is still 21% less likely to own a mobile phone than a man. This figure increases to 23% if she lives in in Africa, 24% if she lives in the Middle East, and 37% if she lives in South Asia. Closing this gender gap would bring the benefits of mobile phones to an additional 300 million women. By extending the benefits of mobile phone ownership to more women, a host of social and economic goals can be advanced.
Mobile Technologies and Empowerment: Enhancing human development through participation and innovation
By looking at basic concepts, current trends and real life examples, this publication intends to shed light on how development practitioners can harness the potential of mobile technologies to improve development outputs and outcomes at the country level.
mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World
This report examines issues at the heart of the rapidly evolving intersection of mobile phones and healthcare. It helps the reader to understand mHealth’s scope and implementation across developing regions, the health needs to which mHealth can be applied, and the mHealth applications that promise the greatest impact on heath care initiatives.
Mobile Futures
- Africa's Technology Futures: Three Scenarios
- Futures of Technology in Africa
- The Future of Mobile in Africa
- Insights into the Mobile Internet in Africa
- The Significance of Mobile Web in Africa and its Future
- Africa: Cell Phones Could Transform North-South Cooperation
- Magic Mobile Future 2010-2020
- Telco 2015: five telling years, four future scenarios report
- Telco 2015: five telling years, four future scenarios presentation
- Prospects of Mobile Search
- Mobile Future Forward: The Next 10 years: Trends that matter
- The Mobile Scenario Presenter: Integrating Contextual Inquiry and Structured Walkthroughs
- Mobile Trends 2020
- Mobile Trends - Trending The Future
- IBM Mobile Strategy - Mobile World Congress 2012
- Scenarios and system dynamics of mobile peer-to-peer content distribution
- Case Study: Use of Scenarios to Understand the Daily Activities of Senior Citizens interacting with Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Mobile Technology
- The Innovative Use of Mobile Applications in East Africa
- A Comprehensive Study of Wireless Communication Technology for the Future Mobile Devices
- Some views on emerging and future technologies for wireless mobile networks
- CIO Strategies for Consumerization: The Future of Enterprise Mobile Computing
- The Future of Mobile / Cell Phones
- Technology Forecast: Unleashing enterprise mobility
- Scenario Analysis of the Mobile Voice Services Market
- History and Future of Tracking for Mobile Phone Augmented Reality
- The future evolution of mobile content, mobile applications and mobile 2.0
- Demand-Based Capacity Planning of Mobile Cellular Networks in Africa
- Towards Reference Modelling of Mobile Scenarios in the Wireless World
Mobile Communications
- The Evolution and Future of Mobile Communication Systems
- Fusion of digital television, broadband Internet and mobile communications - Part II: Future service scenarios
- “Back to the Future” with Wireless Communications
- The Networked Future: Mobile and Wireless Communications
Mobile Traffic
- Mobile traffic forecasts 2010-2020 report
- Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2010–2015
mPayment
- 2011 KPMG Mobile Payments Outlook - The opportunity is rich: the greatest gains will come from cross-industry partnerships
- Monetizing Mobile: How banks are preserving their place in the payment value chain
- Global trends in M-payment - Challenges and opportunities
- Payments 2020: Scenarios for dynamic evolution
- The Future of Smart Payments
- The future of money: Smartphone swiping in the mobile age
- Scenarios for Branchless Banking in 2020
- Mobile Phones and Financial Services in Developing Countries: A Review of Concepts, Methods, Issues, Evidence and Future Research Directions
mHealth
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship for eHealth in Africa: A Conceptual Framework
- Advancing mHealth Solutions
- Landscape Analysis of mHealth in the Global South - Mobile Technology
- From Silos to Systems: An Overview of eHealth’s Transformative Power
- Building Foundations for eHealth
- The Economics of eHealth
- ELMR: Lightweight Mobile Health Records
- mHealth: New horizons for health through mobile technologies
- mHealth and the Future of Medicine
- Global Health 2.0: What Does the Future Hold?
- E-health’s future frontiers
mLearning
- mLearning: Doing the unthinkable and reaching the unreachable
- Mobile Learning Objects Deployment and Utilization in Developing Countries
- The Worldwide Market for Mobile Learning Products and Services: 2010-2015 Forecast and Analysis
- A Review of M-Learning Models
- Mobile Scenarios: Supporting Collaborative Learning among Nomads
- Big Issues in Mobile Learning
Other
- Mobile Government: E-Government for Mobile Societies: Stocktaking of Current Trends and Initiatives
- A Comparative Analysis of Published Scenarios for M-Business
- Magic in the air: Spiritual and transcendental aspects of mobiles
- The use of mobile phones by Generation Y students at two universities in the city of Johannesburg
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