Mobile phone technology can help rebalance the inequality of access to healthcare between rich and poor as well as urban and rural dwellers, according to a speech made by Helen Zille, Premier of the Western Cape, at the recent GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit in Cape Town. Mobile health offers an “incredible, direct access for citizens if effectively harnessed,” she said. The technology can also save governments money at a time when long-term trends indicate growing healthcare costs. Ten years ago the provincial government of Western Cape spent more on education than health. Now that situation has reversed. “There is some debate about which is the best investment,” said Zille.