Ashok Reddy (Unreasonable Capital) | TNW Conference | Reducing Poverty Using Mobile Phone Technology

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Channel: TNW · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Mobile phones' impact on frontier markets is unparalleled - access to real-time information and communications that reaches the most remote parts of Ethiopia or India or Brazil is improving the lives of millions of people, every day. Ashok will discuss several of the companies that he has mentored as part of the Unreasonable Institute, and how these for-profit companies are furthering the UN Millennium Development goals for poverty reduction, gender equality, and environmental sustainability.

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