With a strong vision, people will find the energy, the courage and the capital they need. I would like to tell you about our vision at WorldSpace and where it has taken us in the past ten years. WorldSpace was born to create information affluence across the developing world. It is the predicate to everything we know. Information is ubiquitous.
People are only as developed as the information they access.
Given the wretched conditions that prevail over so much of our earth, it is clear billions of people are deprived of information they need to create decent lives for themselves and their families. 80 million in Africa alone. That's more people than the population of France, a lot more. Ignorance has consequences. Just ask public health authorities in South Asia, where nearly one million children die each year of easily treatable digestive ailments.