Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
Apr 13, 2008 
Categories: Information and Communication Technology, Mobile Technologies
Tags: Iqbal Quadir, Press
A New York Times Magazine article explores the role of mobile phones in the developing world, including Grameenphone and the village phone program.
by Sara Corbett
If you need to reach Jan Chipchase, the best, and sometimes only, way to get him is on his cellphone. The first time I spoke to him last fall, he was at home in his apartment in Tokyo. The next time, he was in Accra, the capital of Ghana, in West Africa. Several weeks after that, he was in Uzbekistan, by way of Tajikistan and China, and in short order he and his phone visited Helsinki, London and Los Angeles. If you decide not to call Jan Chipchase but rather to send e-mail, the odds are fairly good that you’ll get an “out of office” reply redirecting you back to his cellphone, with a notation about his current time zone — “GMT +9” or “GMT -8” — so that when you do call, you may do so at a courteous hour. Read more at The New York Times >>
