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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>----- Mensaje reenviado ----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">De:</SPAN></B> Neil Pakenham-Walsh </FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Para:</SPAN></B> HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015 <HIFA2015@dgroups.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Enviado:</SPAN></B> mar,12 abril, 2011 11:36<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Asunto:</SPAN></B> [HIFA2015] Mobile Africa Report 2011<BR></FONT><BR>Dear HIFA2015 colleagues,<BR><BR>The Mobile Africa Report 2011 has been published by MobileMonday, an open community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals: <BR><A href="http://www.mobilemonday.net/reports/MobileAfrica_2011.pdf" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.mobilemonday.net/reports/MobileAfrica_2011.pdf</A> <BR>[68 pages, 1.2 Mb]<BR><BR>It makes for interesting and encouraging reading. Here are some selected extracts:<BR><BR>'According to industry estimates, there are more than 500
million mobile phone subscribers in Africa now, up from 246 million in 2008. In 2000, the number of mobile phones first exceeded that of fixed telephones. The four biggest mobile phone markets in Africa are Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana... According to Facebook statistics tracker Socialbakers, there were around 10.5 million Facebook users in Africa in 2010. Mobile broadband subscribers in Africa -- users of data cards and USB devices via cellular 3G networks crossed 3 million in September 2009 and were expected to break the 4 million milestone in the first quarter of 2010.'<BR><BR>'Networking giant Cisco predicts an exponential growth in mobile data traffic in Africa. The Middle East and Africa are expected to experience the largest regional growth, with an expected 129 percent compound annual growth rate projected in the Cisco Visual <BR>Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2010 to 2015... By the year 2015, the
mobile network will break the electricity barrier in more than four major regions. Sub-Saharan Africa will have more people with mobile network access <BR>than with access to electricity at home. The off-grid, on-Net population will reach 138 million by 2015...'<BR><BR>'The Cisco study predicts that by 2015, more than 5.6 billion personal devices will be connected to mobile networks, and there will also be 1.5 billion machine-to-machine nodes - nearly the equivalent of one mobile connection for every person in the world...'<BR><BR>'The mobile-only Internet population will grow 56-fold from 14 million at the end of 2010 to 788 million by the end of 2015...' <BR><BR>'More than 90 per cent of the world's population now has access to a mobile network, making mobile telephony truly ubiquitous...'<BR><BR>'According to the report, though fixed broadband subscriptions are increasing with 555 million globally, Africa's penetration rate is less than one per cent
which demonstrates the challenges that persist in increasing access to high speed, high-capacity internet <BR>access on the continent... Kenya has just over one million Facebook users - 2.8 percent of the population. This is higher than Nigeria and India, with 1.8 percent and 1.7 percent respectively. Facebook penetration in South Africa is at 7.5 percent.'<BR><BR>'... there are now more Africans with access to a cellphone than to a clean toilet or even shoes...'<BR><BR>'Africa is projected to add an additional 224 million mobile users over the next five years, bringing mobile phones to 68 percent of the continent's population.'<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR>Neil<BR><BR>HIFA2015 profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is the coordinator of the HIFA2015 campaign and co-director of the Global Healthcare Information Network. He started his career as a hospital doctor in the UK, and has clinical experience in rural Ecuador and Peru. For the last 20 years he has been
committed to the global challenge of improving the availability and use of relevant, reliable healthcare information for health workers and citizens in low- and middle-income countries. He has worked with the World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust, Medicine Digest and INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications). He is based near Oxford, UK. <A href="http://www.hifa2015.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.hifa2015.org</A> neil.pakenham-walsh AT ghi-net.org<BR></DIV><FONT size=2 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">
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