Mobile access to media and the Internet among low-income South African youth
Tino Kreutzer, formerly with the UNDP in the Central African Republic, is now doing an MA at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He's now working with a research project that aims to assess mobile access to media and the Internet among low-income South African youth.
From his blog:
Growing mobile access to media and the Internet is often considered a boon for Africa. But how far are we already? A case study on how to obtain these badly needed numbers. The opportunities associated with increasingly ubiquitous access to mobile technologies by the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely understood but unfortunately little to no quantitative data is available for this age group. I’m presenting some preliminary findings and discuss the methodological challenges we face when trying to get more this kind of data. Read more...
(Via Hugh McGuire — thanks!)
From his blog:
Growing mobile access to media and the Internet is often considered a boon for Africa. But how far are we already? A case study on how to obtain these badly needed numbers. The opportunities associated with increasingly ubiquitous access to mobile technologies by the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely understood but unfortunately little to no quantitative data is available for this age group. I’m presenting some preliminary findings and discuss the methodological challenges we face when trying to get more this kind of data. Read more...
(Via Hugh McGuire — thanks!)
Tags: access, africa, mobile, south, south africa, telecentres and technology, youth
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