Today's Mobile Minute covers how mobiles are improving students' performance in a North Carolina school, personal data theft from a malicious Android app, a $100 million USAID grant for health services in Malawi, the effect of mobile applications on the East African economy, and the release of Opera's "State of the Mobile Web."
- The K-Nect project, run in the Parkwood Academy school in North Carolina, found that incorporating mobile learning into lesson plans led to higher math scores, better student-teacher interaction, and more time spent on schoolwork.
- An Android app that was downloaded "anywhere from 1.1 million to 4.6 million times" collected personal data and phone logs from users and sent the information to a personal website in China. This article looks at mobile security and the challenges of protecting mobile data.
- Have an idea for an m-health project? USAID is now accepting applications for a $100 million grant to create an easily accessible, high-quality health care program in Malawi.
- A piece in Business Daily looks at the exploding market for mobile applications developers in East Africa, and mentions the Apps for Africa program.
- Opera released an in-depth "State of the Mobile Web" report, which covers number of users, country-by-country breakdowns of data consumption habits, top sites visited on the mobile web, and more.
[Mobile Minute Disclaimer: The Mobile Minute is a quick round-up of interesting stories that have come across our RSS and Twitter feeds to keep you informed of the rapid pace of innovation. Read them and enjoy them, but know that we have not deeply investigated these news items. For more in-depth information about the ever-growing field of mobile tech for social change, check out our blog posts, white papers and research, how-tos, and case studies.]
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