Emerging Technologies for Emerging Markets

Download or read book Emerging Technologies for Emerging Markets written by John Vong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces inclusive-cost-effective (ICE) approaches that have the potential to transform all aspects of daily lives of people at the base of the pyramid in the economic scale, who represent more than 75% of the world population. ICE means that the approaches must meet the affordability level at the base of the pyramid. This includes mobile banking and financial service technologies, mobile education, rural information and communication technologies, telemedicine, e-Health, and health social networks. This monograph is a compulsory reading for not only technology innovators, but also economists, social entrepreneurs, development specialists, health specialists, bankers and researchers and policy thinkers on technology and economic development.