The World Bank e-Development Thematic Group/GICT and the International Financial Corporation (IFC)present a Brown-Bag lunch to discuss "Village Phone: Adding Value to our Clients, Creating Opportunities, and Improving Lives".
Description
This is an informative session on the Village Phone Program to learn how IFC is helping extend access to telecommunications into underserved areas by linking rural microentreprenuers with large mobile operators through a sustainable business model.
- Village Phone Evolution - past, present and future, hear from the beneficiaries themselves and the impact it has had on their livelihood and that of their community
- Investment and Advisory Services Linkages- an example of where advisory services and investments work well to add real client value
- Global/Local - how the HQ Based Global Linkages Department, GICT and PEP Africa worked together to design and implement a project
Date and Venue
Thursday, 8 November, 2007; 12:30 - 2:00 pm ET
Location: F8-186 (IFC Building, 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.) with Live Webcast
For interested participants outside the World Bank, please write to edevelopment@worldbank.org.
The e-Development Services Thematic Group is powered by GICT and ISG in collaboration with infoDev, AskGOV, WBI, PREM and other partners.
To download materials for this and all previous e-Development seminars (over 90 since September 2003), please visit http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment.