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Access to and use of mobile telephones in sub-Saharan Africa has increased over the past decade. Mobile telephony has brought new possibilities to the continent.
A GSMA 2020 report projects that 50% of the Sub-Saharan Africa region’s population will subscribe to mobile services by 2025.
However, Language barrier and lack of assistive technology for people with special needs and illiterate populations are major barriers to adoption of mobile phones.
In Ivory Coast, an innovator has programmed a mobile phone in over 70 local languages to make it user-friendly to people with special needs and those who only speak local languages.