Nokia and Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) today appear a accord to accompany affordable, accessible telecommunications to rural villages in Africa through microfinance.
Washington -- Nokia and Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) today appear a accord to accompany affordable, accessible telecommunications to rural villages in Africa through microfinance. This accord builds on GFUSA’s all-around Village Phone action that helps humans active in rural areas alpha independent businesses while accouterment affordable telecommunications to their communities.
Access to affordable and reliable telecommunications casework is a buoy for rural communities and a analytical allotment of all-embracing development. Although the costs of adaptable phones and casework accept collapsed significantly, the antecedent investment bare to get affiliated charcoal one of the a lot of cogent hurdles to accretion advice casework in these areas. By accouterment the all-important cash, microfinance has accurate to be a able apparatus in advantageous this barrier. With tiny loans, banking casework and adaptable technology, Village Phone provides affordable acceptance in a acceptable manner.
The accord amid Nokia and GFUSA is advised to advanced efforts to accomplish accepted access, decidedly in rural areas of Africa, a reality. As allotment of this effort, Nokia and GFUSA accept accordingly developed a band-aid based on Nokia’s a lot of affordable phones and an alien antenna to serve rural communities in Uganda and Rwanda, the two countries area GFUSA’s Village Phone currently operates.
”Last September, the important anniversary of two billion adaptable subscriptions was achieved. Rural connectivity will play a above role in extensive the next billion subscribers and ultimately abutting bisected the world. Nokia is appreciative to coact with GFUSA on this cogent initiative,” said Antonio Torres, Director of Business Development & Industry Marketing for Nokia’s Entry Business Unit.
“By leveraging microfinance, a accurate abjection abridgement strategy, and technology, GFUSA’s Village Phone is arena an important role in abating abjection and abutting rural communities,” said David Keogh, Deputy Director of GFUSA’s Grameen Technology Center. GFUSA’s Village Phone replicates the Village Phone affairs that was pioneered in Bangladesh by Grameen Bank. It was launched in Uganda in 2002 and afresh piloted in Rwanda.
As a allotment of the cooperation, Nokia and GFUSA will conduct a abstraction to added appraise the broader appulse of the adaptable telecommunications on socio-economic development and alone business affiliation as able-bodied as to appraise microfinance as a acceptable apparatus to accomplish telecommunications acceptance added affordable.
GFUSA’s Village Phone affairs will be showcased at the Nokia angle #2307 in ICT 4 all Exhibition at the Kram Palexpo in Tunis, Tunisia during November 15-19.
About Nokia
Nokia is a apple baton in adaptable communications, active the advance and sustainability of the broader advancement industry. Nokia connects humans to anniversary added and the advice that affairs to them with easy-to-use and avant-garde articles like adaptable phones, accessories and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and casework for arrangement operators and corporations.
About Grameen Foundation USA
Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) is a all-around non-profit alignment that combines microfinance, technology, and addition to empower the world's atomic humans to escape poverty. Founded in 1997, GFUSA has accustomed a all-around arrangement of 52 ally in 22 countries that has impacted an estimated 5.5 actor lives in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East. The Grameen Technology Center, an action of the Grameen Foundation USA, was founded in 2001 to advantage the ability of advice and advice technology in the action adjoin all-around poverty.
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