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How mobile phones can fight poverty

Iqbal Quadir · TED

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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.

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Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2005
Speaker
Iqbal Quadir
Year
2005
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Economics, Business and management, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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