December 10 & 17 Issue
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The next hit app might just come from Africa because a new type of innovative apps are growing to help local needs. They have also lagged in technology ad is now home to about 700 million cellphones, making it the largest mobile market after Asia. Basic non-touch-screen phones are linking even the poorest people in villages of Africa, who before had to walk miles to communicate. But there's still along way to go: only 16% of Africans have Internet access, the lowest rate in the world! But things are changing quickly! According to one African techie who spoke to The Guardian in London, "there are 5- to 9- year olds today who, by the time they are 20, will have technology so embedded that the old Africa won't exist for them."
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