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Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana's capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. Internet-enabled phones have transformed many lives ...
The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 (Cth) is an Australian Act of parliament that aims to restrict the use of social media by minors under the age of 16. It is an amendment of the Online Safety Act 2021, and was passed by the Australian Parliament on 29 November 2024. The legislation imposes monetary punishments on ...
Mobile technology in Africa is a fast growing market. [1] Nowhere is the effect more dramatic than in Africa, where mobile technology often represents the first modern infrastructure of any kind. [2] Over 10% of Internet users are in Africa. [3] However, 50% of Africans have mobile phones and their penetration is expanding rapidly. [4]
Since 2020, all secondary schools in Turkmenistan have banned the use of mobile phones during lessons in order to increase the productivity of the educational process. The ban applies not only to school children, but also to teachers: now, during the lessons, they must put their phones on silent mode. Pupils can only use phones outside the ...
Senate Bill 700 also requires schools to develop and adopt an official policy to prohibit the use of cellphones during the school day in exchange for the grant funding to purchase the smartphone bags.
Many kids get their first phone as a gift. In fact, according to a 2022 study in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 59.1% of participants (kids ages 4-18) reported getting their first cellphone simply ...
Two main scales are in use, in both adult and adolescent populations: the 20-item self-reported Problematic Use of Mobile Phones (PUMP) scale, [17] and the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS). There are variations in the age, gender, and percentage of the population affected problematically according to the scales and definitions used.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California recently signed a bill to limit smartphone use in schools. Joelle Clark, a California teacher, says policies on phone use can be hard to enforce.