Muy intersante artículo.. me gustó.. se trata de un reportero que entrevista a un antropólogo, experto de Nokia, que viaja por el mundo para entender las necesidades de la gente respecto a comunicación y a teléfonos celulares, principalmente por Africa y Asia. Yo creo firmemente que sí -talvez no de la manera en que se utiliza hoy, ni con sus precios, pero talvez con pequeñas modificaciones o impulsos por medio de ONGs o Gobiernos pueda realmente hacer mucha diferencia en países muy pobres y con escasa infraestructura-. Dejo algunos trechos del artículo:

“A “just in time” moment afforded by a cellphone looks a lot different to a mother in Uganda who needs to carry a child with malaria three hours to visit the nearest doctor but who would like to know first whether that doctor is even in town. It looks different, too, to the rural Ugandan doctor who, faced with an emergency, is able to request information via text message from a hospital in Kampala … a 2005 London Business School study extrapolated the effect even further, concluding that for every additional 10 mobile phones per 100 people, a country’s G.D.P. rises 0.5 percent … ugandans are using prepaid airtime as a way of transferring money from place to place, something that’s especially important to those who do not use banks … “Pushing technologies on society without thinking through their consequences is at least naïve, at worst dangerous … and IMHO the people that do it are just boring,” he writes on his blog’s description page”