Local officials in Rwanda now have mobile phones loaded with software that allows them to enter and transmit health data back to their base so they can access information on potential outbreaks, shortages of medicines and so on in real time.

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Jana conducted the poll between March 7-11, 2013 with mobile phone users from Lesotho, Rwanda, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria.

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Jana conducted the poll between 7-11 March 2013 with mobile phone users from Lesotho, Rwanda, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria.

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Jana conducted the poll between 7-11 March 2013 with mobile phone users from 11 nations -- Lesotho, Rwanda, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria.

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In December, USAID announced a partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and leading cellular network operator Millicom International S.A. to launch an innovative project to bring mobile financial services to women entrepreneurs throughout Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana.

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People survive either from agriculture or from small-scale mining of gold or colombo-tantalite, an ore used in mobile phones that makes its way to the outside world through Uganda or Rwanda.

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Masiyiwa is the founder and executive chairman of Econet Wireless, a publicly-listed mobile telecom company with operations in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Burundi and Rwanda.

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