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such as internet and mobile telephony. The marriage of these two concepts Information and Communications Technology and poverty - have given rise to some very innovative and highly effective development models, including rural access to modern healthcare services, through telemedicine, agricultural productivity enhancement initiatives, by linking farmers to agricultural and livestock research institutes and enhanced educational programmes, through distance-learning models. In the developing countries technology has successfully linked farmers to a number of agricultural produce wholesale markets, providing them up-to-date market information. This information, in turn, helps the farmers in gauging price movement in agricultural commodities, enabling them to capture maximum value for their goods and resulting in substantial income enhancement. Business Process Outsourcing has become possible due to technology. It has provided job opportunities to the unemployed in the developing nations while enhancing the profits in the developed nations proving to be mutually beneficial.

Technology can make things possible. It has proven that it can make life convenient. The question is Can technology make life convenient for all?
Political will and participation by the government, the corporate and people at all levels is required to make this happen. When this is achieved technology indeed holds the key to alleviating world poverty.

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