Language learning on a next-generation service platform for Africa
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Developing countries are seeing rapid growth in the deployment of mobile phones. Billions of people (including those in the poorest parts of the world) now have devices capable of communication and computation. In Uganda it was reported that there were 25 mobile phones per 100 people in 2007 [11]. This makes mobile phones the most ubiquitous computing and communication platform in the country compared with computers (1.6 per 100 people), television (2.2 per 100 people) and even radio (15.6 per 100 people). Applications and services for these devices are emerging rapidly.
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