How Facebook, Mobile Phones, and Literacy are Empowering the Urban Poor
Category: IMPACT
Empowering the urban poor to pull themselves out of poverty is a sustainable, respectful, and effective way to encourage development. The following examples show how modern technology and traditional education methods are having a significant impact in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Jakarta, and Mexico City.
By Josephine d'Allant, Contributor
Managing Editor, URB.im, 2013-10-26