Bill Gates & President Bill Clinton: Technology and the Value of Connectivity-Exclusive Interview
For more from Bill Gates and President Clinton, check out the December 2013 issue of WIRED.
Released on 11/08/2013
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What is the value of connecting
the other 5 billion, how do we get there,
and is it worth the effort?
Well, connectivity is an amazing thing,
whether it's connecting up a health center,
so we can help see that the stocks are there and,
give advice to a worker who may not be trained as a doctor.
Getting connectivity to schoolrooms is a fantastic thing.
There are many important things,
education, good governments,
Yeah.
Having a measles vaccine so kids aren't dying of that,
and, you know, we have to prioritize those things,
but it's wonderful that connectivity
will be an enabler, transparency for better government,
education, and health, it's one of the many things
that will help us do a better job.
When the tsunami hit South Asia,
and we put, we did everything we could,
put all the fishing families back in the water.
They all lost their boats,
and in Aceh, Indonesia, and in Sri Lanka,
we gave them all with the new boats and cell phones.
The average incomes went up 30 percent.
Once people could know what the price of fish was,
it's 30 miles down the way.
After the Haiti earthquake,
we realized that 85
percent or more
of the people had no access to banking services,
because the 6 big banks there could make
more than enough money, in an easier way,
by taking all the remittances from Haitians
working around the world, converting them
into local currency, charging a fee,
then you spend the rest of the day reading the newspaper.
So, we got a Canadian bank, Scotia Bank,
to partner with DigiCell, the biggest cell phones company,
to offer basic consumer banking services over the internet.
If you don't have connectivity, you can't do that stuff,
and we're just beginning, we're just beginning to do this.
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Starring: Bill Gates, President Bill Clinton
Photography and video courtesy of:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Prashant Panjiar
Frederic Courbet
Michael Hanson
Kepler
Clinton Foundation/Max W. Orenstein
www.clintonfoundation.org
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