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In the hands of the people

Fortune, Brainstorm Tech: Iqbal Quadir discusses how hand-held computers - also known as cell phones - are changing the world.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Mobile Technologies

The Debate Zone: Will Asia become the center of innovation for the 21st century?

In McKinsey: What Matters, Iqbal Quadir debates Asia's potential to become the center for innovation in the 21st century.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Governance, Mobile Technologies

Africa can teach development experts

Writing in the Financial Times: This is Africa, Iqbal Quadir cites African examples of dispersion of power leading to accountability and economic progress.

Categories: Africa, Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Aid , Governance, Mobile Technologies

$50 million MIT Biz Innovation Center Opens To Africans

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October 2008

Psychiatrist and Health Economics specialist Dr. Oladapo Tomori of Nigeria and Environmental Civil Engineer, Jean-Pierre Mshimyimana of Rwanda are among the first class of 12 Legatum Fellows admitted to the prestigious Center for Development and Entrepreneurship hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge USA. They have since commenced their studies.

Categories: Africa, Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Technologies, News

TED TALK “The Power of the Mobile Phone to End Poverty”

Iqbal Quadir talks to TED about the evolution of GrameenPhone, and how it can serve as a model of success for future entrepreneurial endeavors across the developing world.

Categories: Entrepreneurship, Mobile Technologies

GSMA MobileWorld Congress, February 2008

Iqbal Quadir addresses the GSMA MobileWorld Congress and uses the story of GrameenPhone to illustrate the unique potential of cell-phones and communication technologies to alleviate poverty in the developing world.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Mobile Technologies

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