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The mobile ladies of Bangladesh

We catch up with the Bangladeshi village women involved in a mobile phone scheme

We catch up with the Bangladeshi village women involved in a mobile phone scheme. The success of the scheme has inspired a similiar one in parts of Africa. Also, the wireless smart pebbles placed in glaciers to test climate change, a new CD player designed for the blind and how one youngster developed a video game for cancer sufferers.

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23 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project