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Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges (2021)
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Hampshire, K., Mwase-Vuma, T., Alemu, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Awoke, T., …Kasim, A. (2021). Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges. World Development, 140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105257

The extraordinary global growth of digital connectivity has generated optimism that mobile technologies can help overcome infrastructural barriers to development, with ‘mobile health’ (mhealth) being a key component of this. However, while ‘formal’ (... Read More about Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges.