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Solar Power, Mobile Phones Converge to Distribute Water in Kenya - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
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Solar Power, Mobile Phones Converge
to Distribute Water in Kenya
Mobile phones have revolutionized trade across Africa, and in the space of just a decade or so, the continent has leapfrogged from minimal landline networks to pioneering mobile phone technology that often is not available in many western countries.
The communications company Safaricom, for example, introduced M-PESA — a phone based money transfer system — in 2007 (despite concerns over the lack of a legal framework governing transactions ).
The system, which today reaches 6.5 million subscribers, allows cash to be deposited with a vendor and instantly collected from another, anywhere in the country, without ...
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