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About four billion people on the planet live in places that have no street names…

Maggio 4, 2015 4:25 , by RIPESS - Réseau intercontinental de promotion de l'économie sociale et solidaire - 0no comments yet | No one following this article yet.
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About four billion people on the planet live in places that have no street names, no house numbers - in fact, nothing that constitutes a proper address. And without that, they're off the map. They can't get a bank loan, they can't run a business, they have no voting rights or access to public utility services.

Here is one innovative way to address this:


Giving everyone in the world an address - BBC News
www.bbc.com
About four billion people worldwide live in places that have no proper address, but a UK-based small company is planning to change that.
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