March 1, 2013 by Vallabh Rao
IndiBlogger.in, a community of Indian bloggers has launched IndiChange, a platform that aims to ‘harness the collective power of blogging to fight evil’. The first campaign on IndiChange is a joint effort between IndiBlogger and Breakthrough for the of launch “Ring The Bell” in India. “Ring The Bell” is an award-winning global campaign calling on men and boys to take action and stop violence against women.
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July 19, 2012 by Vallabh Rao
Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone and the mobile communications story is moving to a new level, which is not so much about the phone but how it is used, says a new report released today by the World Bank and infoDev, its technology entrepreneurship and innovation program. The number of mobile subscriptions in use worldwide, both pre-paid and post-paid, has grown from fewer than 1 billion in 2000 to over 6 billion now, of which nearly 5 billion in developing countries. Ownership of multiple subscriptions is becoming increasingly common, suggesting that their number will soon exceed that of the human population.
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