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Articles tagged with: Mtn Uganda and Grameen Foundation
Expanding Mobile Phone Information Service for Rural Famers
The Grameen Foundation is to expand its Community Knowledge Worker (CKW) initiative in Uganda, supported by a $4.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative is building a self-sustaining, scalable network of rural information providers who use cell phones to help close critical information gaps facing poor, smallholder farmers. They will strengthen the information link to poor farmers by disseminating and collecting relevant information in these underserved communities. more
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Grameen Foundation Launches Mobile Services Tailored to the Ugandan Poor
The Grameen Foundation has announced the launch of a suite of mobile phone applications developed with Google and MTN Uganda that deliver services and information that were previously unavailable to Uganda's poor and disadvantaged communities. more
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Two Thousand Rural GSM Payphones in Uganda
MTN Uganda has announced the provision of its 2000th villagePhone operator. MTN villagePhone extends telecommunications access to rural villages across Uganda in partnership with microfinance institutions by creating opportunities for individuals living in impoverished rural areas to become "Village Phone Operators". Village Phone Operators take a "micro-loan" for the equipment for as little as US$230 to be repaid over a period of up to 12 months. more
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Mobile phones for Uganda's poor
MTN Uganda says that it has embarked on a substantial project to improve access to communications services and thus reduce poverty and improve socio-economic conditions in rural Uganda. Based on the successful Grameen Village Phone Programme in Bangladesh, MTN Uganda officially launched "MTN villagePhone" this week - a joint venture between MTN Uganda and Grameen Foundation USA. more
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