Technology in Africa

Guests: Gabriel Senay, Ph.D., Physical Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center; Dan Nielson, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science at Brigham Young University; Guy Grossman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania; Michelle Larsen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine  Information is power, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Africa, where the explosion of new technology is making information more available than ever before. The use of personal technology, including cell phones, is changing banking in Africa, as well as energy, medicine, politics and even agriculture.