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Beyond top-ups: Today’s prepaid mobile infrastructure provides access and enables financial inclusion in Islamic countries


This article was contributed by Muhannad Hassan, General Manager of Middle East and Asia at Ding.com, a leading international mobile top-up service.


 

In 2000, Estonia became the first country in the world to pass legislation that recognised internet access as a basic human right.  More than a decade later in May 2011, the U.N.’s Human Rights Council published a report that declared access to the internet a basic human right. 

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Financial inclusion