Mo Ibrahim Quotes

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.

The launch of free Wi-Fi service is a step forward to smart cities to bring revolutionary change in the lives of the masses and to bridge the digital divide.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.