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Today's Mobile Minute covers the mobile gender gap, mobiles in the classroom that allow deaf children to learn alongside hearing children, a study about mobile over-sharing, mobile credits on cell phones during disasters, post-Haiti disaster management with ICTs, and a 90-second interview with Patricia Mechael about mobile health. 

• In developing countries, there is a 300 million-person gap between male and female phone ownership.  "A New ICT4D Paradigm: Women + Mobile Phones + mServices = Economic Development" examines the findings of Women and Mobile: A Global Opportunity and covers how women using mServices (mHealth, mPayments, mEmployment, mAgriculture) could lead to greater opportunities and economic development in developing countries. 

• The Child Africa International School in Kabale, Uganda encourages the use of SMS at school in order to foster communication between hearing and non-hearing students, as described in "Deaf Children are Being Heard in Africa." (Hat tip Textually.org)

• According to a Webroot Study of 1,645 social network users, 55% of people polled said "they worry over loss of privacy incurred from using geolocation data" on mobile phones."

• The Wall Street Journal writes about Concern Worldwide, an NGO, that is testing a mobile credit system in Niger for cash aid: "Looking to Cellphones to Deliver Aid in Africa." We wrote about the scheme a while back.

• "Disaster Response 2.0: Learning from Haiti" looks at how ICTs were used after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, covering mobile donations, Ushahidi, and how ICTs can help during emergencies. 

• In a short, 90-second audio piece on Earth Sky, Patricia Mechael talks about mobile health, her work with ChildCount+, and the promise of mhealth.
  

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