Africa: Mobile money taxes risk driving poor out of digital economy
KENT MENSAH and NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how moves to roll out an e-levy on mobile money transactions in cash-strapped African nations, could hurt the poorest…
Calls, texts…and forecasts? Mobile phone towers can predict rain too
Hyderabad, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Thought mobile phone towers were just for calls and messages? They can also help predict rainfall, telecoms experts said on Friday, a potential game-changer for farmers in developing countries such as India and Sri Lanka. Many emerging economies cannot afford sophisticated forecasting tools such as ground-based radar and rain-gauge networks, making […]