Uganda Village Phone Program

-Project status: Active
-Sectors: For-profit Activity
-Funding source: Private Investment Funded
-Location of project: Uganda | Sub-Saharan Africa
-Project type: Business Development Activity | Telecommunications and IT Activity

Managing Organization: Grameen Telecom

Managing Organization URL:
http://www.gfusa.org/



Uganda Village Phone Program

Contact Name: Tim Wood | David Keogh, Grameen Foundation

Contact Email: twood@gfusa.org | dkeogh@gfusa.org

Contact Phone: 1-206-325-6690

Activity URL:
http://www.tech.gfusa.org/villagepayphone.shtml


Affiliated Organizations: Grameen Bank / Grameen Telecom, Academy for Educational Development (AED)


Related URLs:
http://www.grameen-info.org/ ICTARD: http://www.ictard.org/ictard_about_us.htm
Activity Description: The Grameen Technology Center is replicating one of the greatest success stories in international development, the Grameen Village Phone Program from Bangladesh. In rural villages where no telecommunications services have previously existed, the program provides cellular phones via a sustainable financing mechanism to poor entrepreneurs who use the phone to operate a business. In its first replication, the Grameen Technology Center established a joint venture with MTN Uganda to create MTN villagePhone in Uganda. Over 1,800 village phone businesses are now operating in remote villages of Uganda with more being added every day. One such project to bring IT to the Ugandan agricultural sector is ICTARD (Information Communication and Technology for Africa Rural Development).
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