Rohan Samarajiva examines what is required to connect families at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) in South Asia, drawing from the findings of a five-country Teleuse@BOP study that included the elicitation of responses from around 9,000 teleusing households (respondents were between the ages of 18 and 60) in Socio Economic Classifications D and E (SEC D&E). His article was published by bdnews24.com on World Telecoms day.
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Sanjana Hattotuwa
Abu,
Could you kindly point out the exact URL of the article? The bdnews24.com bizarrely does not allow one to search the site for content, and I couldn’t find Rohan’s article on the homepage. Better yet, how about a PDF on this site itself?
Sanjana
Abu Saeed Khan
Sanjana, please try now. You will find a link to an MS Word file at the bottom and just download it. Sorry for the trouble. Abu
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