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Hi. I think this page is an awesome start. I think it's great that you've outlined all that you want to discuss, and I think that they are will all be important additions for the page! My only suggestion would be adding some more internal links, to terms such as cellular, mobile, or mass mobilization (if wiki pages exist for these terms).

Some pages to check out:

http://www.academia.edu/2570773/Radio_as_Instrument_for_Mass_Mobilization

http://www.unicef.org/cbsc/files/SummaryMobiles4Dev_Report.pdf

http://unicefstories.org/research/m4d/ --Shaina390 (talk) 20:32, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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I think this is a great start! You've identified many sections that I think would be great to include additional information on. In particular, I liked how you identified other countries and case studies. This will be helpful to make comparisons and would be a good starting point for further research. Here are some articles that I think might be helpful:

--Mabelho (talk) 20:40, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:357565/FULLTEXT01.pdf#page=15
 * 2) http://mmc.sagepub.com/content/1/1/76.short
 * 3) Related to social impacts and uses: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/itgg.2009.4.1.91?journalCode=itgg

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This article is very well-written and well-researched. I really like your introduction, since it is bold and very clear.

When you refer to increased academic, socioeconomic and political attention for M4D's, you list only one reference. I am interested in a specific reference that relates to each of these (which presumably, are mentioned in the one article you include).

I am interested in your sentence where you distinguish between predictable results of M4D and unpredictable results. Do you have a reference for this? I personally do not know much about this topic, but would think that all of the results of mobile adoption in developing countries would be largely unpredictable, since it is a new phenomenon. Speaking of this topic's new-ness, do you need a heading for history? Most pages do have this heading, but maybe it is not needed in this case. Having said that, here is a book published in 1999 which may provide insight. http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=H1Qu4KPz1AAC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=mobile+leapfrogging+development&ots=-IHU56ZEKd&sig=BxEbEXjYBccV9Us0PcA-FW7QWPs#v=onepage&q=mobile%20leapfrogging%20development&f=false.

Here are two other articles related to your topic: https://www.ejisdc.org/Ojs2/index.php/ejisdc/article/view/529, and http://irfd.org/events/wf2005/papers/sinha_chaitali.pdf --Heatherjsb (talk) 20:41, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

This is definitely a crucial topic for ICT and I'm actually quite surprised that there hasn't been any articles on wikipedia regarding this issue. Just for the "Criticisms and Challenges" section, I was wondering if we could talk about how this program affects social structures in the developing countries. I know you talked about its link to profit-oriented entities and environmental aspects but I think-this is purely my own subjective interest-it would be quite interesting to talk about this issue in sociological perspective.

Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Government of Canada Privacy and Developing Countries The Guardian Mobile phones may not solve health challenges in poor countries Research paper by Jonathan Donner, Microsoft Research India http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~wainer/cursos/2s2008/impactos/donner_-_mobiles_in_developing_world_-_draft.pdf --Junohk (talk) 20:47, 27 February 2014 (UTC)