Not such a brave new world.
Both the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) insist that technology can help developing countries. The World Bank believes that cell phones can provide people in developing countries with access to knowledge from industrialized countries, while the UNDP believes that a comb...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 136; pp. 24 - 25 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
February 19 2007
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