Here’s another very interesting article on how SMS phones are revolutionalizing rural farming in Asia. Indeed it seems the SMS phone IS the Computer.
————————————————–
Through its Warana Unwired project, researchers at the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India (MSR India) worked with a 70,000-person rural sugarcane cooperative to run an experiment replacing an existing PC based system with a cheaper SMS enabled mobile phone based system. The new mobile system replicates almost all of the PC based functionality, and is cheaper, adds additional functionality, and is more popular.
click here for more details