How Mobile Phones Can Fight Poverty

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How Mobile Phones Can Fight Poverty

"A mobile phone operator has connected 80 million Bangladeshi."

Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi — and to become a champion of bottom-up development.

Additional Info

Topics: Information and Communication Technologies, Digital Government, ICT Infrastructure, Mobile Phone, Access and Connectivity, Poverty
Regions:
Middle East and North Africa
GP/Global Themes:
Transport, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation
keywords:
Alternative Energy, Business, Communication, Culture, Development, Global Issues, Invention, Investment, Microfinance, Poverty, Technology, Telecom, Third World, Transportation, Information age, networks
Language:
English
Learning Mode:
Video
Date Added: November 13, 2015
Length:
15:43

About the Presenters

Iqbal Quadir

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MOHAMMAD

- Feb 1, 2021

Great!

Mariam

- Nov 9, 2020

interesting

Anvar

- Mar 30, 2020

Interesting!

Joy Mildred Adhiambo

- Jan 14, 2020

How Mobile Phones Can Fight Poverty

Monir

- Apr 23, 2019

Great the bottom-up development approach

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- Apr 2, 2019

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