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Interview of Professor Muhammad Yunus by Harsha de Silva
LIRNEasia lead economist Harsha de Silva recently had the honor of hosting 2006 Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on his weekly television show; Biz1st: In- Focus, which runs on MTV and Shakthi TV in Sri Lanka.
A five minute cut on the discussion, where Professor Yunus discusses how a “digital genie” will appear from the “Aladdin’s [...]
Village Phone facing obsolence in Bangladesh
Grameen’s famous Village Phone Program lifted thousands out of poverty– and helped Muhammad Yunus win the Nobel Peace Prize. The problem: It’s not working anymore.
According to Grameen Telecom, the GrameenPhone affiliate that manages the program, profits per operator have been declining for years and in 2006 averaged less than $70. “The program is not dead,” [...]
Dial for freedom with Amnesty Wireless
Dhaka, March 23 (bdnews24.com) — Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus stunned the world by unveiling a poverty alleviation initiative using mobile phone on March 26, 1997.
He buys bulk minutes from Grameenphone’s GSM mobile network and resells among the microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh.
The industry now recognises such business model as Mobile Virtual Network Operator or MVNO. Yunus [...]
Cashing in on the village phone
Dec 23, 2005, By: Robert Clark, Wireless Asia
http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=274336
The UN summit in Tunis last month did not turn out to be the showdown expected between the and the rest of the world.
That particular non-event, and the anti-social behavior of ’s police, took the headlines, such as they were. By the end, journalists were reduced to counting [...]
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