Potentials of Cellular Phone Technology for Local Economic Development in the Offinso Municipality, Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of the research was to examine the benefits households derive from the use of mobile phones and their implications for local economic development. A survey of 354 households carefully selected from 12 rural communities in the Offinso Municipality, Ghana, revealed that three-quarters of the households, including the unemployed, owned mobile phones which they used for myriad economic purposes. The economic purposes include enquiries about the sources of market for their end products and sources of inputs for production. The paper indicates that the frequency modulation (FM) feature on most mobile phones was one of the most attractive factors for the acquisition of mobile phones. Through FM programmes, the households obtained information on extension services although such programmes were found to be limited in scope. The paper thus recommended that radio programmes on agricultural extension services should be scaled up in order to enhance the economic activities of rural households who otherwise could not have access to relevant information owing to the unfavourable extension service-farmer ratio in Ghana. Keywords: mobile phones, local economic development, rural Ghana, Offinso municipality ----------------------------------------------------- Resume L'objectif de la recherche est d'examiner les benefices que tirent les menages de l'utilisation des telephones cellulaires et leurs implications sur le developpement economique rural. Une enquete sur 354 menages soigneusement selectionnes dans 12 communautes rurales de la municipalite d'Offinso, au Ghana, revelent que les trois quarts des menages, incluant les sans-emplois, possedent des telephones cellulaires qu'ils utilisent pour de multiples objectifs economiques. Ces objectifs economiques incluent des renseignements sur les fournisseurs de marche pour leurs produits finis et les sources de contribution a la production. L'article indique que la fonction de modulation de frequence (FM) sur la plupart des telephones cellulaires fut l'un des facteurs les plus interessants lors de l'acquisition des telephones cellulaires. A travers les programmes MF, les menages ont obtenu des informations sur les services de prolongation meme si de tels programmes furent fondes pour avoir une portee limitee. Cet article recommande ainsi que les programmes radio sur les services auxiliaires devraient etre elargis afin d'ameliorer les activites economiques des menages ruraux qui, autrement, ne pourraient pas avoir acces a des informations utiles en raison du ratio non favorable de service auxiliaires -fermier au Ghana.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".