4 ms·
allow me to vouch for Bangladesh. there are some good talents and opportunities for grassroots oriented development & innovation! BKash is a good example. its
by miraj 9y ago
allow me to vouch for Bangladesh. there are some good talents and opportunities for grassroots oriented development & innovation!
BKash is a good example. its a mobile payments company with equity interest from Gates Foundation & IFC/WorldBank.
https://www.bkash.com/about/company-profile https://www.bkash.com/about/company-profile
then there is NewsCred, the leading enterprise content marketing platform. Based in NYC, it is founded by Bangladeshis, & have a dev centre in Dhaka.
http://www.newscred.com http://www.newscred.com
GrameenPhone was one of the pioneers in Mobile for Dev
+ Economic empowerment. Iqbal Quadir, founder of GP also founded The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. (0)
(1) (2)
anyone intetested for more info + discussions re: the field of ICT4D i.e. Tech for Development, I find the TIER group at Berkeley & their mail-list quite useful.(3) (4)
thete are other groups & countries that are also interesting. hope to get back with some more data once I locate them.
(0) https://www.grameenphone.com https://www.grameenphone.com
(1) http://legatum.mit.edu http://legatum.mit.edu
(2) http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-iqbal-quadir-built-grameenphone/ http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-iqbal-quadir-...
(3) http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/about http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/about
(4) https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/tier https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/tier