Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature

By Jonathan Donner. The Information Society, 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Designing mobile interfaces for novice and low-literacy users (2011, background): “Thus, many entities with a global development focus have turned to the mobile phone as a potential platform for delivering development services, in sectors spanning education, .nance, health, agriculture, and governance [Donner 2008].”
The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review (2013, neutral): “El lr o tt (2 00 5) [1 20 ] U U U U U U U”
Mobile Money: Communication, Consumption and Change in the Payments Space (2012, background): “On phone sharing, see Burrell (2010), Chipchase (2009), Donner (2008), Rangaswamy and Singh (2009).”
Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field (2012, background): “There are many examples of this already: mobile phones (Donner, 2008), systems of money transfer such as M-Pesa (Moraczynski, 2009) and ICTs to support women’s empowerment (Buskens and Webb, 2009).”
The Impact of mHealth Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews (2018, neutral): “Mobile phone usage has been rapidly increasing worldwide [1,2].”
Text Messaging as a Tool for Behavior Change in Disease Prevention and Management (2010, neutral): “Mobile technology has already been widely adopted around the world; its utilization is growing at a rapid rate, not just for interpersonal communication but as an important aspect of communication infrastructure for industries including finance, education, and marketing (3, 5, 11, 12).”
The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2013, neutral): “In low-income countries, mobile communication technology is the fastest growing sector of the communications industry and geographical coverage is high [4–7].”
Mobile Phones, Financial Inclusion, and Growth (2012, background): “Recent literature on mobile phones in developing countries has been reviewed by Donner (2008).”
A review of evidence on mobile use by micro and small enterprises in developing countries (2010, background): “They are a tiny fraction of the total literature on mobile use in the developing world (Donner, 2008).”
Information, efficiency, and welfare in agricultural markets (2010, background): “We do not discuss these impacts here; a discussion of the broader literature can be found in Donner (2008).”
ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries (2011, background): “Recent literature on mobile phones and developing countries has been reviewed by Donner (2008).”
Mobile banking and economic development: linking adoption, impact, and use (2008, background): “Mobile telephones have also been the subjects of a wide range of studies complicating the directionality of influence, from technological affordances to user choices to social structures and back again (Donner, 2008; Haddon, 2003).”
Facilitating Agricultural Technology Adoption Among the Poor: The Role of Service Delivery Through Mobile Phones (2012, neutral): “There is little comparative data on the impacts of mobile phone ownership versus phone sharing, and the dynamics of shared phones outside of formal phone shops remain poorly understood (Donner 2008).”