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12 Ways Mobile Phones Have Transformed Africa

12 Ways Mobile Phones Have Transformed Africa

Youtube/GeoPoll
Youtube/GeoPoll

Surveys and Polling

The collection of data by international development workers through mobile phones have been considered a leap from traditional face-to-face surveys. Tools such as Formhub and Geopoll that conduct surveys using mobile phone tools have been able to capture valuable data across the continent that was not easy to come by before. In some cases, countries such as Uganda have used this technology in developing childbirth and death registry tools through a mobile vital record system(MVRS).