Silly phone game puts illiterate Pakistanis in touch with potential employers

Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 10:01 in Mathematics & Economics

A silly telephone game that became a viral phenomenon in Pakistan has demonstrated some serious potential for teaching poorly educated people about automated voice services and provided a new tool for them to learn about jobs, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences.

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