Access Quote by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe,…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The digitisation of money, the rapid expansion of internet access and, of course, the adoption of mobile phones have created the perfect conditions to…

— Dan Schulman

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

— Melinda Gates

Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good…

— Narendra Modi

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political…

— Mo Ibrahim

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've…

— Hillary Clinton

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

— Howard Rheingold

Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

— Weili Dai

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

— Muhammad Yunus

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

— Ethan Zuckerman

I think what we really need to think about is how do we reimagine the management and movement of money in an era where…

— Dan Schulman

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

— Michael Gerber