<quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan">

> These are all issues. I was thinking people would be given a pouch for
> the card, or keep the SIM as a full-size card (credit-card size).

That's called a smart card. :-)

> I should clarify: this is for millions of people in the developing world.
> They won't have computers, phones or any kind of reader. But they will
> have access to someone who has a computer that can read/write them.

You're likely to find that they *do* have phones (at least, in any market
that some kind of smart-card-ish thing would start being relevant). Their
phone "minutes" function as micro-currency.

- Jeff

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