The United Nations Foundation and the Vodaphone Foundation provided financial help to develop an open-source data collection tool.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

June Sugiyama is director of the Vodaphone Americas Foundation.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

Other partners on the device include British telecom company Vodaphone and Japanese consumer electronics-maker Sharp.

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Also getting a boost: Vodaphone (VOD), which holds a 45% stake in Verizon Wireless.

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Phone company Vodaphone and the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust recently quashed rumours that Ice was a hoax .

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