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In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism

Source: The New York Times

BANGALORE, India — Manohar Lakshmipathi does not own a computer. In fact, in India workmen like Mr. Manohar, a house painter, are usually forbidden to touch clients' computers.

Unserved by banks, Poor Kenyans Now Just Use A Cellphone

Source: Yahoo! News

Nairobi, Kenya - With a click of a cellphone key, Bernard Otieno makes the transfer – sending funds instantly from his residence in a sprawling Nairobi slum to his wife, who holds down their rural family farm some 250 miles away.

The real scandal at the World Bank

Source: Independent.co.uk

While the world's press has been fixated on the teeny-weeny scandal over whether the World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz helped to get his girlfriend a $300,000-a-year gig next door, they have been ignoring the rancid stench of a far bigger scandal wafting from Wolfie's Washingto …