in senegal mlouma is a virtual agricultural platform that allows farmers and investors to get realtime information on the price location and availability of farm products via a website or their mobile phone innovative applications have helped to provide citizens with critical health information remind people to take their medication or provide access to healthrelated services in malawi airtel provides information on maternal and child nutrition information in the local language and via the mobile phone in tanzania the registration insolvency and trusteeship agency rita and mobile operator tigo together with unicef and local governments have developed an smsbased application that makes the birth registration process more efficient costeffective and accessible for parents since its launch in the app has registered nearly million children and has now been scaled across seven regions