Nokia joins Finnish aid project to promote use of mobile technology

Business December 22, 2009

Finland is providing EUR 11.9 million in aid financing for a new form of collaboration with the mobile phone giant Nokia and the World Bank.

The programme, called “Creating Sustainable Businesses in the Knowledge Economy", aims to help develop small and medium-sized companies in poor countries through increased use of mobile technologies.

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