Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty - CNN.com
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“The cell phone is the single most transformative technology for development,” said Sachs, head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of the 2005 book “The End of Poverty.”“Poverty is almost equated with isolation in many places of the world. Poverty results from the lack of access to markets, to emergency health services, access to education, the ability to take advantage of government services and so on,” Sachs said. “What the mobile phone — and more generally IT technology — is ending is that kind of isolation in all its different varieties.”
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