&gt; [...] how does having free internet benefit the continent?<p>I don&#x27;t think it does. I think it&#x27;s one of the ingenious ideas to solve
social and infrastructural problems by throwing an app at them, because real
solution requires work, while creating an app is cheap and still gives the
author the feeling of trying to help the world.<p>&gt; How does a poor person in a rural area REALLY improve their life by just having a cheap android phone and access to the internet?<p>Merely having a smartphone connected to internet is too little. To benefint
from it one still needs to develop skills, and I can&#x27;t think of anything that
realistically could be done on 4&quot; screen.