The Advisory Board of the m-Powering Development Initiative adopted and announced its first report at its exta ordinary session held in Doha, Qatar on 6 December 2014.
The report consists of chapters on m-Health, m-Learning, m-Commerce, m-Business models and Advocacy and it reveals a number of systemic issues that are common to all these sectors. It is revealed in the report that while smart, innovative solutions that leverage mobile technologies can make a real difference to people around the world and can improve healthcare, education and commerce, current efforts are still duplicative and fragmented.
The report highlights a number of issues and challenges common to all sectors that need to be addressed appropriately. The need to embrace an integrated and holistic approach to deploy scalable, sustainable and affordable M-Powering initiatives through inter-sectoral dialogue and collaboration was stressed as a key enabler for addressing barriers to scale.
