Communication, background document
Workshop on the Impacts of Poverty Maps:
Past Experiences and New Applications, Brussels Workshop, May 21st, 2003
| Application | Impacts | How the impacts can be enhanced |
| One of Brazil’s largest telecommunications providers used HDI maps to identify poor neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro that would be good candidates for sales of prepaid mobile phone service (1). | Anticipated to increase company profits by avoiding substantial infrastructure investment required to develop postpaid landline phone services. | |
| The Ministry of Communications used Brazil’s HDI map to identify poor municipalities in need of free access to e-government services and online information (1). | This helped identify poor municipalities in Brazil that will receive 4,500 computers, free Internet access, and free access to e-government services and online information. |