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Iqbal Quadir says mobiles fight poverty
About this film
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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TED.com
Subjects
TEDTalks, TEDGlobal 2005, TED, Talks, alternative energy, business, communication, culture, development, global issues, invention, investment, microfinance, poverty, technology, telecom, third world, transportation, 2005
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