How mobile phones can fight poverty

Name: How mobile phones can fight poverty
Uploaded: 2006-10-10T00:11:00Z
Duration: 15 min 38 s
Description: 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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Iqbal Quadir |

TEDGlobal 2005

• July 2005

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.