http://www.miadekuijper.com Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.miadekuijper.com/2009/09/new-degrees-of-freedom-for-entrepreneurs-in-the-transparent-economy/ http://www.miadekuijper.com/2009/09/new-degrees-of-freedom-for-entrepreneurs-in-the-transparent-economy/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:54:15 +0000 janet http://mia.voltairews.com/?p=188 This award-winning commercial for Bangalink, the mobile phone company, illustrates the ways in which cheap communication, a hallmark of the Transparent Economy, gives entrepreneurs new freedom to find customers and negotiate deals. In the ad, a fisherman with no access to cheap telephony is at the mercy of a middleman to set prices for his catch. Then the fisherman gets a phone and–voila–he can find his own buyers and negotiate his own prices–without paying a middleman anything.

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“My name is Latika”

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