Hi Stephane, I interested in writing a story from the white paper you wrote on mobile web for social development. Has your paper ever been published anywhere in the media? Regards

My name is Brenda Zulu and i am a journalist based in Zambia based in Southern Africa. I have been to rural areas in Zambia and i found that the mobile phone telephone masts are not everywhere and so there is still no mobile communication in the rural areas. Mobile network communication is just along the line of rail. In Chief Chikata in Southern Province, villagers travel over 60 km to find a network connection. This shows that the rural area still need to be fully exploited for people to use mobile phones effectively. I was in Mporokoso a rural district in Northern province and the situation is the same. Refugees at Mwange refugee camp who have mobile phones always have to travel to the district to make a phone call. Otherwise where network is available farmers are using mobile phones to access market prices.