Connect the World at ITU TELECOM WORLD 2006

• Press release: Grameen’s Yunus Announces New Partnership with ITU

  Hong Kong, 3 December 2006 — Nobel Prize Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus, announced during special address to participants in the ITU Telecom World 06 Opening Ceremony today, that Grameen will team up the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and other partners, including Cisco Systems, QUALCOMM and a newly formed consortium, Enclusion, to launch a virtual, global ‘ICT Empowerment Network’ as part of their collaboration through the Connect the World initiative

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• Media advisory: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Yunus Press Conference, 3 December 2006 at 15.00 hours

• Backgrounders:

  • ICT Empowerment Network [中文]

  • ITU Internet Training Centres Initiative for Developing Countries [中文]

  • ITU Youth Education Scheme (YES) scholarship initiative [中文]

• Yunus' remarks

• Press release from CISCO

• Photos