Mobile Phones and Poverty Alleviation: A Survey Study in Rural Tanzania
Year: 2008
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Access to mobile communication has been argued to contribute to economic development. It is a common, implicit expectation that mobile phones have the power to increase growth, alleviate poverty, and bridge the perceived digital divide. Although mobile phone use is often, in the literature, associated directly with socioeconomic development, there still appears to be mixed feelings on the perceived economic benefits of mobile phones, especially among the bottom poor. This research abandons untested, implicit assumptions, and investigates how mobile phone users in the rural areas of Southern Highlands of Tanzania perceive the relationship between mobile phones and income poverty.
Authors: Hosea Mpogele, Hidaya Usanga, Matti Tedre
Institution: Association for Computing Machinery
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W216712828