Excerpt (also, a run-on sentence, for which I'm fully culpable):
"With around five million cell phones in use around the world today -- and that number poised to only grow exponentially in the coming years, especially in developing regions -- mobile connectivity remains one of the most powerful tools that UN staff should harness, said Adam Hirsch, Chief Operating Officer of social media blog Mashable, particularly if and as online payment systems around the world start to standardize around a few protocols and systems, such as near field communications or NFC (also called "wave and pay" technology -- found most prominently in Google Wallet technology)."
Read the whole thing at Talking Points Memo Idea Lab.
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