Wednesday, February 3, 2010

A not so quite revolution

Grameen Phone's mission was to bring the technology of the modem in the form of the cell phone to the rural country side people. I don't need to tell any of you the value of being able to call work, home, parents, children or doctors for that matter and we must realize that this is valuable at any economic level. In the Us the cost of a cell phone is actually the average wage of what I consider the middle income group, about 30 US dollars। But Grameen has done something truly remarkable, they have made these phones affordable for everyone। Now cell phones do not have any class distinction, I've seen beggars on the street and field workers using a cell phone। Here my Grameen phone is being modeled Munie, one of the domestic staff। Check out the web site www.grameenfoundation.com for more info.

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