A United Nations expert has said that distributing mobile phones is one of the most practical ways of improving education and literacy levels in developing countries.

Physician Joel Selanikio, writing on the BBC News website, welcomes the generocity of the international development community in pioneering specialised laptops for school-age children in the developing world, but points out that "they will surely only ever reach a small fraction of them"

.The answer, he thinks, is changing the western's perception about the capability of the humble mobile phone.

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