However, five years of research by Dr Marco Haenssgen paint a less optimistic picture and show adverse consequences of mobile phone diffusion, which creates more competition and new divisions and leaves the poorest strata of population worse off than before.
The Struggle for digital inclusion: Phones, healthcare and marginalisation in rural India
Research
2 January 2018
Technological potentials have raised high hopes on healthcare access in LMICs like India.