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allow me to vouch for Bangladesh. there are some good talents and opportunities for grassroots oriented development & innovation!

BKash is a good example. its a mobile payments company with equity interest from Gates Foundation & IFC/WorldBank. https://www.bkash.com/about/company-profile

then there is NewsCred, the leading enterprise content marketing platform. Based in NYC, it is founded by Bangladeshis, & have a dev centre in Dhaka. http://www.newscred.com

GrameenPhone was one of the pioneers in Mobile for Dev + Economic empowerment. Iqbal Quadir, founder of GP also founded The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. (0) (1) (2)

anyone intetested for more info + discussions re: the field of ICT4D i.e. Tech for Development, I find the TIER group at Berkeley & their mail-list quite useful.(3) (4)

thete are other groups & countries that are also interesting. hope to get back with some more data once I locate them.

(0) https://www.grameenphone.com

(1) http://legatum.mit.edu

(2) http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-iqbal-quadir-...

(3) http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/about

(4) https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/tier



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