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Boku currently lets cell phone owners pay for things through carrier billing in over 60 countries. Usually these transactions are for small things--items like apps, ringtones, small-scale online purchases--perhaps because that's all users are comfortable with, unsure of how big their cell phone bill will be at the end of the month
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Feed SubscriptionHow One Man Turns Trash into Profits
Waste Ventures is transforming garbage-and-recycling collection in the developing world into sustainable communities, and a growing business.
Read More »Do You Know What Happens to Your Cellphone When You’re Done with It?
DURBAN, South Africa I rented a cellphone during my sojourn here to cover the recent climate change negotiations . A local number enabled me to keep in touch with home and office but also, perhaps more importantly, to make appointments on the fly with ever harried international negotiators
Read More »Electronic Eyeglasses Change Prescription On Command
Had enough of having multiple pairs of glasses lying around for different activities?
Read More »A New Way To Aid The Poor: Ask Them To Pay
A new campaign to install toilets in the developing world rests not on aid, but on using marketing to convince villagers that bad sanitation is a problem they need to work together to fix.
Read More »More Than 25% Of CO2 Emissions Come From Buying Cheap Foreign Goods
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 26% -- the amount of global CO2 emissions that come from the production of traded goods and services.
Read More »Climate change targets developing world’s cities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many fastest-growing cities, especially those in the developing world, stand to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, a new study reported on Thursday. Few urban areas are taking the necessary steps to protect their residents -- billions of people around the globe -- from such likely events as heat waves and rising seas, according to research to appear in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability and European Planning Studies.
Read More »Cancer Metastasizes Globally: Additional Resources
Paul Farmer, an iconic figure in publicizing public health problems in developing nations, has now joined a campaign to highlight the issue of cancer in Latin America, Africa and other areas where treatment of this chronic illness is often lacking. As he outlines in this interview with journalist Mary Carmichael, Farmer has devised an innovative approach to compensating for the lack of high-tech treatments in countries like Haiti
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