There is a big shift from holding a phone to your ear to holding it in your hand, ” says David Edelstein of the Grameen Foundation. “It opens the door to information services.

“从将电话放在耳边(讲话)到将电话放在手上(获取信息)是一种巨大的进步”，来自Grameen基金的Edelstein先生如是说.“它打开了信息服务之门，它不是网站，却可以依赖移动工具向人们提供各类网站所提供的服务”。

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The Grameen Foundation has already experimented by giving netbooks to a few village-phone operators in Uganda so that they can sell internet access as well as telephony.

作为试点，格莱珉基金会已经在乌干达为一些乡村电话运营者提供上网本，这样他们便可以赚取上网费与电话费。

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Farmer’s Friend is one of a range of phone-based services launched in June by MTN, Google and the Grameen Foundation’s “Application Laboratory”, or AppLab.

农家友(Farmer’s Friend)服务是由MTN（南非主要的移动通讯运营商），谷歌以及Grameen基金的应用实验室(Application Laboratory，简写为AppLab)在六月份推出的基于电话的服务产品中的一种。

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Grameen Phone, a Grameen Bank offshoot founded to provide services for the poor, now sells to everyone and has become the largest provider of mobile-phone services in Bangladesh.

ECONOMIST: The digital revolution is helping the poor, too

So when a Grameen-backed phone entrepreneur sets up shop, the whole village is suddenly connected to the outside world.

ECONOMIST: The digital revolution is helping the poor, too

With the help from the Grameen Foundation and a not-for-profit called OpenMind he staffed up a small call-center where mobile phone owners can call up and ask about weather, history, science, whatever they want.

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