Mobile Communication for Sustainable Development: Change and Challenges in South Asia
This paper focuses on the use of mobile communications technologies by communities, the change due to access to these technologies and the socio-economic impact of mobile media on people’s lives in South Asia.
The paper also looks at the challenges before the governments of developing countries in tackling a series of socio-political, techno-economic and moral-ethical questions in building mobile communications policies for development and bridging the digital divide in South Asia.