A reminder of the basics …

by Tim Wilson, April 5, 2011

There’s nothing new about the enormous importance mobile phones are playing in the developing world to empower entrepreneurs to engage successfully in the marketplace. There are lots of stories of fisherman using phones to find the best port to deliver their catch because it sells at the highest price. They’re not alone.

This article is an interesting reminder of that argument focusing on an alternative area of poverty alleviation – sanitation. It’s a quirky look at the issue, but interesting nonetheless, especially in this period where mobile phones are as much a tool of communication as an instrument of banking and revolution.

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