[WSIS CS-Plenary] Rv: [HIFA2015] Mobile Africa Report 2011

[Lady Murrugarra]

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De: Neil Pakenham-Walsh  
Para: HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015 <HIFA2015 at dgroups.org>
Enviado: mar,12 abril, 2011 11:36
Asunto: [HIFA2015] Mobile Africa Report 2011

Dear HIFA2015 colleagues,

The Mobile Africa Report 2011 has been published by MobileMonday, an open 
community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential 
individuals: 

http://www.mobilemonday.net/reports/MobileAfrica_2011.pdf 
[68 pages, 1.2 Mb]

It makes for interesting and encouraging reading. Here are some selected 
extracts:

'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.'

'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 

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 

than with access to electricity at home. The off-grid, on-Net population will 
reach 138 million by 2015...'

'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...'

'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...' 


'More than 90 per cent of the world's population now has access to a mobile 
network, making mobile telephony truly ubiquitous...'

'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 

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.'

'... there are now more Africans with access to a cellphone than to a clean 
toilet or even shoes...'

'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.'

Best wishes,
Neil

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. www.hifa2015.org   
neil.pakenham-walsh AT ghi-net.org
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International Child Health Group (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child 
Health), Joanna Briggs Institute, Network for Information and Digital Access, 
Public Library of Science, Rockefeller Foundation (Monitoring and Evaluation), 
Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, and Tropical Health and 
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