Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007
Project update on transparency for development
This week we were very busy contacting potential sponsors and partners. Thanks to everyone for your support and feedback, it looks like we will be able to make the project become reality.
We will keep you informed
Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007
Additional information: technology for development
You don't often see great ideas to reduce poverty. Here is a great video which just shows the background of GrameenPhone in Bangladesh, which boast to reduce poverty with connecting poor people who had no access to telecommunication (I am ignoring the criticisms against it, which is a broader issue).
"Connectivity increases productivity and reduces poverty"
- Iqbal Quadir, founder of Gonofone and GrameenPhone. He is currently the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Development Entrepreneurship, Senior Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the founding co-editor of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, a journal published by MIT Press. (Wikipedia)
Via On:Philanthropy