“Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.” THE BENEFITS OF - Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google MOBILE CONNECTIVITY are multidimensional and things such as the size and well documented on several health of a nation’s economy geographical scales: local, city, (often, as measured by the GDP regional (often, rural versus and per-capita income); literacy, urban), and national. poverty, and employment rates; technological progress; and a The extent of a nation’s mobile variety of socioeconomic and connectivity, and the benefits cultural factors, such as racial arising from that connectivity, and gender equality and access depends on many factors. to healthcare. Figuring into the equation are 25