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Researcher uses mobile phone data to predict illiteracy
Many non-profit orgs send out teams to teach people how to read and write, but a lot of them have very limited resources, as well. One Norwegian researcher, however, might have found a way to pinpoint places that are most in need of the organizations' help using people's mobile data. Pål Sundsøy used info from a phone company's survey of 76,000 mobile phone users in an unnamed developing country in Asia. That survey asked for each person's phone number and whether they can read or write.
