Capitalism, Right and Wrong
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments · prosperity
The Cellphone Is Mightier Than the Pen
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments · responsibility
Welcome to the revolution. It is called the cellphone. The Washington Post,
Cellphones are the first telecommunications technology in history to have more users in the developing world — almost 60 percent — than in the West. Cellphone usage in Africa has been growing close to 50 percent annually — faster than any other region. More than 30 African nations have more cellphones than land lines. In only 11 years, Grameenphone — an offshoot of the Nobel Prize-winning micro-lending outfit — now covers 98 percent of Bangladesh and serves the majority of the country’s 30 million telephone users, only about a million of whom have land lines.