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WORLD BANK
STORY: WORLD BANK / CONNECTIVITY
TRT: 2.51
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 8AM JUNE 30, 2009
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT/ WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES / FILE
TANZANIA, FEBRUARY 2008
1.Wide shot, women in field
2.Med shot, people farming
INDIA, MAY 2008
3.Med shot, class with computers
LIBERIA, AUGUST 2007
4.Med shot, computers
ARMENIA, FEBRUARY 2009
5.Med shot, woman on phone
ROMANIA, NOVEMBER 2008
6.Wide shot, street
NIGERIA, APRIL, 2007
7.Med shot, farmers harvesting grain
8.Med shot, hoeing
9.Close up, grain in hand
10.Close up, grain in machine
11.Reverse shot, grain in machine
RECENT / WASHINGTON D.C.
12.SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, World Bank Group:
“In developing countries, farmers are receiving updates crop prices on their mobile phones, public health officials can track medical inventories by text messages and women are empowered to make household and career decisions through on line information. And also entrepreneurs, they get licenses in a fraction of the time through applying through government websites.”
INDIA, APRIL 2009
13.Med shot, kids in class with computers
14.Med shot, kids in class with computers
LIBERIA, AUGUST 2007
15.Wide shot, in school
16.Close up, typing on a keyboard
TANZANIA, FEBRUARY 2008
17.Wide shot, cows
NIGERIA, APRIL 2007
18.Wide shot, village
RECENT / WASHINGTON D.C.
19.SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Dongier, World Bank Group:
“So it’s clear that the technology makes a difference not only in an urban, very modern context, but also in a rural area, for low income people.”
LIBERIA, AUGUST 2007
20.Wide shot, class with computers
MOZAMBIQUE, MARCH 2007
21.Med shot, class
RWANDA, APRIL 2007
23. Med shot, class
24. Pan, class
LIBERIA, AUGUST 2007
25. Wide shot, class with computers
ROMANIA, NOVEMBER 2008
26.Wide shot, class with computers
27. Close up, screen
28. Close up, kids in class
RECENT / WASHINGTON D.C.
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Dongier, World Bank Group:
“Now that we know that this is a real foundation, like roads or electricity or water, this becomes one of the foundation infrastructures for a country. You want to roll that out even faster than the market would ordinarily and the role of the World Bank, and governments, is to provide catalytic financing to those parts that may be not be reached right now by the market alone.”
SRI LANKA, MAY 2008
30. Med shot, lady weaving
INDIA, MAY 2008
31. Close up, computer device
RWANDA, APRIL 2007
32. Wide shot, men in class
33.Med shot, fixing a computer
SRI LANKA, MAY 2008
34. Med shot, woman in radio station
RWANDA, APRIL 2007
35. Close up, kids with computers
INDIA, MAY 2008
36. Wide, street scene
The World Bank report shows that in developing countries, a ten percent increase in high speed internet access means 1.3 percent more growth.
Fast, reliable information via a mobile phone is changing centuries-old ways of doing business.
A farmer in Niger, for example, can get information on her phone that tells her where her grain will fetch the highest price.
SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, World Bank Group:
“In developing countries, farmers are receiving updates crop prices on their mobile phones, public health officials can track medical inventories by text messages and women are empowered to make household and career decisions through on line information. And also entrepreneurs, they get licenses in a fraction of the time through applying through government websites.”
Internet users in developing countries increased tenfold form 2000 to 2007 and four billion people use mobile phones even in the most remote parts of the globe.
SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Dongier, World Bank Group:
“So it’s clear that the technology makes a difference not only in an urban, very modern context, but also in a rural area, for low income people.”
But to unlock the internet, people have to be able to read and write.
Dongier says people need basic skills, like literacy, and basic access, like broad band both areas in which the World Bank can help.
SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Dongier, World Bank Group:
“Now that we know that this is a real foundation, like roads or electricity or water, this becomes one of the foundation infrastructures for a country. You want to roll that out even faster than the market would ordinarily and the role of the World Bank, and governments, is to provide catalytic financing to those parts that may be not be reached right now by the market alone.”
Not only can access to information increase growth in developing countries, like industry itself is ripe for expansion.
World Bank economists say, right now, businesses and governments are using less than 15 percent of the world-wide market for IT. They expect information to become a global business in itself.
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