# How mobile phones can fight poverty

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/iqbal_quadir_how_mobile_phones_can_fight_poverty)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How mobile phones can fight poverty](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/iqbal_quadir_how_mobile_phones_can_fight_poverty/6e85bd8e1253), 16 min (TED's player)