Monday, November 16, 2009

Talk: Iqbal Quadir says mobiles fight poverty

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.

About Iqbal Quadir

Iqbal Quadir is an advocate of business as a humanitarian tool. With GrameenPhone, he brought the first commercial telecom services to poor areas of Bangladesh.

The talk could be viewed here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/iqbal_quadir_says_mobiles_fight_poverty.html

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