From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication:

Nkwi, Walter Gam

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“…Across Ghana and Malawi (and as reported elsewhere across sub‐Saharan Africa), young people are widely in evidence selling handsets, sim cards and airtime, battery‐charging and repair services and, increasingly, mobile money services; this is an attractive opportunity because it requires little entry capital or formal skill (Burrell, ; Etzo & Collender, ; Nkwi, ) and is frequently initiated with material support from family members (Porter, ). Usually, however, such work takes place alongside other petty trade and services, such as a combined enterprise of battery charging with barbering, and could not be adequately identified in our survey.…”

Section: Mobile Phones As a Direct Source Of Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Youth Livelihoods in the Cellphone Era: Perspectives from Urban Africa

Porter

Hampshire

Lannoy

et al. 2018

J of Intl Development

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Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly important given the prominence of mobile phone use in young lives. This paper explores and reflects on youth phone usage in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa, drawing on mixed-methods research with young people aged approximately 9-25 years, in 12 (high density) urban and peri-urban sites. Comparative work across these sites offers evidence of both positive and negative impacts. The final section of the paper considers policy implications.

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Section: Mobile Phones As a Direct Source Of Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Youth Livelihoods in the Cellphone Era: Perspectives from Urban Africa

Porter

Hampshire

Lannoy

et al. 2018

J of Intl Development

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“…In Buea, Cameroon, Nkwi (2009, 58–) describes how young school drop‐outs are employed in the city’s phone boxes: they present their work as a temporary measure to enable them to garner sufficient funds to resume their education. Paid workers mostly earn a ‘decent salary’– i.e.…”

Section: Mobile Phones Network and Livelihoods: The Generation Omentioning

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Mobile Phones, Livelihoods and the Poor in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Review and Prospect

Porter¹

2012

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This review paper focuses on the potential of widespread access to mobile phones for improving the lives of poor people: the opportunities that mobile phones have already provided, or may soon present, for enhancing their material well‐being. Following a broad review of the diffusion of mobile phones across Africa, discussion is restricted principally to one key issue, livelihoods, due to space constraints. Attention is paid to the linkages between virtual and physical mobility throughout the paper and the final section reflects specifically on possible interactions between expanded virtual mobility and sustainable transportation in the continent, an issue of considerable significance for future development potential in our increasingly carbon‐constrained world.

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“…On the other hand, and in line with one of the currently dominating strands of research on cultural change (esp. in anthropology but also in geography), much work focuses on the appropriation and adaptation of technology in specific contexts (Donner 2008b; Hahn and Kibora 2008; Horst and Miller 2006; Nkwi 2009). In this respect, much attention has been paid to the variety of mobile phone use, especially in demarcation to ‘western’ ways of dealing with it, such as the rules and meanings of ‘beeping’ or ‘flashing’ (Donner 2008a), practices of credit or phone sharing (Steenson and Donner 2008), ways of recharging the phone, or magical practices related to its use (Smith 2006).…”

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Mobile Phone Geographies

Pfaff

2010

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Over the last two decades, the mobile phone has not only entered our everyday lives at tremendous speed but also diverse fields of academia. Critically examining the mobile phone’s appeal as a research object from a geographic perspective, this article engages with the recent fashioning of mobile phones by geographers. In doing so, it pays special attention to the particularities of focusing on a technological object, dealing with the issue of technological determinism from different theoretical perspectives and the ways in which they impact on research practice. Identifying and discussing emerging themes and fields of interest, it is the central aim of this article to provide an overview of ‘mobile phone geographies’ and, by developing an idea of the specific character and challenges of this emerging field, to conclude with reflections on promising links for future research.

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From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication:

Cited by 18 publications

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Youth Livelihoods in the Cellphone Era: Perspectives from Urban Africa

Youth Livelihoods in the Cellphone Era: Perspectives from Urban Africa

Mobile Phones, Livelihoods and the Poor in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Review and Prospect

Mobile Phone Geographies

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