--- title: Phones: How They Can Help End World Hunger description: The Iraqi Army no longer exists. Also how to fix the sharing economy, how cell phones can end world hunger, teaching cars to dodge potholes. canonical: https://time.com/3917312/phones-end-world-hunger/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-11T16:01:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:06.784Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Cell Phones Can End World Hunger og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3917312/phones-end-world-hunger/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Cell Phones Can End World Hunger twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Cell Phones Can End World Hunger by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 11, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 11, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**How cell phones can end world hunger.**](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150610-hunger-nutrition-cell-phone-farming-agriculture-africa-world/) By Dan Glickman in National Geographic **2\.** [**The sharing economy could be terrible for workers. We can fix that.**](http://theweek.com/articles/559684/how-make-sharing-economy-more-progressive) By Jeff Spross in the Week **3\.** [**The Iraqi Army no longer exists**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/06/iraqi-army-no-longer-exists/114607/) By Barry Posen in DefenseOne **4\.** [**Poor people make better financial decisions than wealthy people.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/06/are%5Fthe%5Fpoor%5Fmore%5Frational%5Fspenders%5Fthan%5Fthe%5Fwealthy.html) By Anuj Shah in Slate **5\.** [**Soon, your car will avoid potholes for you.**](http://thestack.com/jaguar-landrover-pothole-cloud-network-research-100615) By Martin Anderson in the Stack  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3917312/phones-end-world-hunger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3917312/phones-end-world-hunger/"},"headline":"How Cell Phones Can End World Hunger","datePublished":"2015-06-11T16:01:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:06.784Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3917312/phones-end-world-hunger/","keywords":["Innovation","poverty","ISIS","sharing economy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3917312/phones-end-world-hunger/","name":"How Cell Phones Can End World Hunger"}}]}] ```