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“The next billion people who will be getting online will be using cellphones, not computers,’’ says one of the experts quoted in a Boston Globe article about an MIT project using mobile phones to help health professionals and farmers in developing countries. Because of the ubiquity of cell phones in the developing world, they provide a platform for telemedicine activities such as transmittal of x-rays via specialized, but inexpensive or free, software. Farming advice and literacy projects are other areas where there is potential for this approach.