research scientist: A scientist, in the broadest sense, is any person who engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy.
stint: stretch: an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
developing countries: a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well being.
GDP: General Political Department (PLA)
market research survey: is the systematic gathering, recording, and analysis of data about issues relating to marketing products and services.
rural: living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"
contract-labor force: The total number of people employed or seeking employment in a country or region.
2. Why would people in developing countries be particularly likely to be interested in small jobs? Who do you think benefits more from mobile phones, people in rich countries or people in developing countries? They take what they can get since their opportunities are limited.
3. Why do you think that the number of people in the developing world with mobile phones has gone up so quickly? Does this mean that people in poor parts of the world are now richer than they were a few years ago? No, prices for these phones have gone down, and there are very good deals.
4. What is local knowledge? What would be some examples of non-local knowledge? Why does some knowledge remain local, while other knowledge is recorded in encyclopedias and newspapers?
Mainly very, very important information that can have an effect on everywhere or a large landmass, not just a small town.
5. How can knowledge help people? How does crowdsourcing make use of local knowledge?
6. If relief agencies knew where malnourished people or people needing medicine were, how would the world be different? How do most people communicate their need for food, medicine, and other items? How are these needs a type of localized knowledge? They can send letters or now use phones if they have them, or the internet with e-mails or even social networking websites.
7. What are some other uses you can think of for txteagle?
It helps places have better productivity and reduce the prices for it.
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