IN NUMBERS: MAKING THE CONNECTION

Did you know?

The second most popular cell phone app is the weather app.

• It is useful for choosing clothes and deciding how to get to work.
• It's even more useful for farmers because it gives them access to daily weather forecasts and information that can mean higher yields and higher income.
• Or for small farmers, who use a peer-to-peer service to exchange information among like-minded peers with their cell phones.

Kenyan farmers have increased their revenues by an average of 13 percent since they began using cell phones to improve their supply chain. 

To learn more about how the internet helps people in developing countries escape poverty:

https://www.one.org/making-the-connection/index-de.html

To the ONE report Making the Connection

https://www.one.org/international/policy/making-the-connection/