Bangladesh's Infoladies Bring the Internet to Villages on Bicycle

Bringing the Internet to Bangladeshi villages on the back of a bike

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By GMB Akash

July 3, 2014 at 10:34 PM UTC

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This article is part of the July 7, 2014 issue of businessweek.

info 1 — Only 5 million of Bangladesh’s 152 million citizens have regular Internet access. Three-quarters live in rural villages. The Infoladies, a group of about 50 women in their early 20s, travel through the countryside equipped with a laptop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a digital camera, and a glucometer ministering to the technologically impoverished.
Photograph by GMB Akash/Panos Pictures

Only 5 million of Bangladesh’s 152 million citizens have regular Internet access. Three-quarters live in rural villages. The Infoladies, a group of about 50 women in their early 20s, travel through the countryside equipped with a laptop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a digital camera, and a glucometer ministering to the technologically impoverished.