UAE-based start-up offering incentives to tackle mobile phone addiction

UAE-based start-up offering incentives to tackle mobile phone addiction

A UAE-based start-up is offering incentives to students in a bid to wrestle them away from their mobile devices.

Research from United Arab Emirates University last year showed almost a third of young Emiratis may be addicted to their smartphones. It was found that on average, the 18 to 33-year-olds at the Al Ain campus reported using their phones for more than seven hours per day.

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And it was found that 29 percent were using their phones “in a manner that could be characterised as dependent and potentially addictive”.

However, Lock&Stock, founded by Hussain Ali Asgar and four other former student friends back in September 2017, has come up with a company aimed at reducing screen