In one of my earlier blogs, I laid out the opportunity of mobile numbers being used as 'citizen ID' and enabling access to credit to the huge mass of unbanked citizens of the world.
Well, I now go a step further - we need a 'Universal Declaration of Mobile Phone Rights'. I think it is about time the United Nations passed a resolution requiring every country to issue mobile phone to its citizens. All the global talk of identification, rights, cheap credit is meaningless without a global platform on which every world citizen can enjoy rights.
Companies like Mi phone are coming out with a $ 20 mobile phone. See www.mi-fone.mobi/
Very soon, a phone will be as affordable as a watch and it makes sense for the world to seize this opportunity and get the world 'mobile'.
As a popular advertisement by a MSP in India goes ; 'Air, Water, Food .... .. Network'.
Time to make mobile phone a basic human right.
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