Graduation Year
Spring 2012
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
International Relations
Reader 1
Jennifer Taw
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© 2012 Chris Temple
Abstract
The ability of the mobile phone to reach and connect people like no technology before it, coupled with its productive potential to benefit private industry, governments, and the poor, makes it an extremely powerful tool for economic development – a tool that is worth investing in.
Since their introduction, cell phones have demonstrated the ability to yield for the public good through improved information exchange and access to health care and financial services. In order to realize this potential, the private and public sectors must cooperate to improve regulations to encourage healthy competition and new capital investment while facilitating education in cell phone use.
Recommended Citation
Temple, Chris, "Maximizing the Productive Use of Mobile Phone Technologies for the Public Good" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. 463.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/463
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
