TED Talks

Iqbal Quadir: The power of the mobile phone to end poverty

TV-PG
2007 • E23    Jan 16, 2007    17m
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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