Over the past 20 years, mobile phones have emerged as widespread portable tools that provide access to vast amounts of data. Unlike financial measures for growth, digital growth does not discriminate between the developed and undeveloped world. Developing countries are driving mobile phone access. Several countries (featured below) have begun to realize this prevalent technology’s potential to promote economic health and raise the current standard of living. They have empowered their communities to generate timely, highly-customized practices whose effects will reverberate through an entire network of forward-thinking individuals.