Developing Countries: Mobile Phones

Department for International Development written question – answered at on 16 March 2016.

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Photo of Lucy Frazer Lucy Frazer Conservative, South East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support the Government is providing to enable developing countries to harness mobile phone technology.

Photo of Nick Hurd Nick Hurd The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development

Our partnership with mobile phone operator group, the GSMA, has used mobile technology to improve the reach, delivery and affordability of basic energy, water and sanitation services for 1.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and many of our other programmes in health, education and other sectors use mobile technology.

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