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When Worlds Collide #43: Toilets or Telephones? That’s the Wrong Question!
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 25 November 2012 November 19 was World Toilet Day. It highlights a major development challenge of our times. This international day of action “aims to break … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Development, Culture, Environment, ICT, Sanitation, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Water
Tagged Abu Saeed Khan, Basic needs, Club of Rome, Frank La Rue, ILO, India, India Census 2011, International Labour Organisation, LIRNEasia, Mahbub ul Haq, mobile phones, more toilets than phones, Nicholas Sullivan, President Nelson Mandela, sanitation, slum dwellers, Teleuse@BOP, World Toilet Day, You Can Hear Me Now
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