Ericsson and Columbia's Earth Institute join forces to empower Millennium Villages through communications
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), the world's leading telecommunications supplier, today announced it is partnering with The Earth Institute at Columbia University to provide connectivity to the Millennium Villages project. This partnership is designed to bring mobile communication and the Internet to approximately 400,000 people in 10 African countries where the project is working. The Millennium Villages project is a community-led initiative that aims to lift rural African communities out of the extreme poverty that traps hundreds of millions of people throughout the continent. Currently