Reuters is carrying an interesting report from Kenya on a new text message service for jobseekers.
Since internet access is fairly limited in rural parts of the country (despite attempts to get more computers into schools), people use text messaging to look for work.
"It's relatively easy. All you need is access to a mobile phone with a Safaricom connection," said Antony Mwaniki, OneWorld International's business manager.
"The moment we get a job advertisement and put it on the system, it is automatically sent to the subscriber's phone as a text message," he told Reuters.
More grist to the mill of those who theorise that it is telephony, not computing, that can really bridge the digital divide.
