ITID journal publishes special issue on mobile telephony

[Knowledge base]

Given the substantial increase in the use of mobile phones in recent years, and the potential impact of this phenomenon on people in the developing world, it certainly warrants significant attention in the field of international development. In response to a relative lack of scholarly attention to the subject, the USC Annenberg School’s journal “Information Technologies & International Development” (“ITID”) recently published a special issue on mobile telephony.

The included research articles are:

• Social Influence in Mobile Phone Adoption: Evidence from the Bottom of the Pyramid in Emerging Asia
• Bottom of the Pyramid Expenditure Patterns on Mobile Services in Selected Emerging Asian Countries
• The Future of the Public Payphone: Findings from a Study on Telecom Use at the Bottom of the Pyramid in South and Southeast Asia
• Are the Poor Stuck in Voice? Conditions for Adoption of More-Than-Voice Mobile Services
• CellBazaar: Enabling M-Commerce in Bangladesh
• Mobile Phones and Expanding Human Capabilities

The articles are all connected by subjected matter, but also by the utilization of the Teleuse @ Bottom of the Pyramid (Teleuse@BOP) survey conducted by LIRNEasia as their evidence base.