Melinda Gates Launches Initiative to Reduce Poverty With New Technology
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Melinda Gates has launched a high-level international commission to spark new thinking on how developing countries can best harness new technologies to reduce poverty. The wife of Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke at the launch of the commission in Nairobi on Thursday.
The 11-member commission aims to promote use of technology to fight poverty across Africa and provide opportunities for the poor.
Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the newly launched commission would create opportunities for everyone.
“Let us unleash the opportunity here of all the amazing entrepreneurs, because they are the ones. The markets then will scale these great ideas and so we want to make sure that part of this world we are thinking about everybody, not just the people in the capital cities,” she said.
Photo courtesy of Alikem Tamakloe.
Source: Voice of America (link opens in a new window)
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