Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 10/2011

News on the Go: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World's Information Ecosystem

Dale Peskin

September 2011

National Endowment for Democracy

Abstract

Mobile devices now reach the farthest corners of the world. By the end of 2011, about 5 billion mobile phones will be in service in a world with 7 billion people. The implications–for politics, for education, for economies, for civil society, and for news and information–are profound. News on the Go: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World's Information Ecosystem examines how a global information society might look with mobile media devices at its hub.