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GSMA Welcomes OECD Digital Economy Ministers’ Declaration
Wednesday 21 December, 2022 | International Relations
Last week, I represented the GSMA at the OECD’s first Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting since 2016. The meeting saw governments, civil society and business communities from OECD member countries come together to focus on driving long-term recovery and economic growth by ...
Connectivity for Good: Driving business and protecting the planet
Monday 12 December, 2022 | Uncategorised
Almost 50 years ago, Martin Cooper made the very first mobile phone call standing on the corner of 6th Avenue near the Hilton Hotel in New York City. It took a few more decades before mobile really took off, but at that moment, everything changed, and by the end of this year ...
GSMA Partners with Verizon UK to Empower Women in Cybersecurity
Wednesday 30 November, 2022 | Gender | Goal 5 | International Relations | News - #BetterFuture
As part of the EQUALS Her Digital Skills Initiative, the GSMA partnered with Verizon UK earlier this month to deliver a one-day hybrid workshop on cybersecurity targeting emerging female talent in tech across the UK, Lesotho, Kenya and Uganda. The curriculum for the workshop ...
GSMA Showcases Diversity and Inclusion Best Practices at Reykjavik Global Women Leaders Forum
Tuesday 29 November, 2022 | Gender | Goal 5 | News - #BetterFuture
Bringing female leaders across all sectors, including politics, business, tech, civil society, academia, the arts and media, the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders, hosted by the government and parliament of Iceland, aims to share ideas and solutions on how to further ...
Connectivity for Good: Empowering Society
Friday 25 November, 2022 | Uncategorised
Building thriving societies With 5.3 billion mobile subscribers globally, mobile connectivity has changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Shaping our world for the better. Changing our world for good – across society, business and the environment. ...
Digital Inclusion: Reducing the Usage Gap
Saturday 5 November, 2022 | Goal 10 | News - #BetterFuture
Today, the world is more connected than ever before, with 4.3 billion people now using mobile internet.[1] Mobile broadband continues to be the primary way men and women access the internet in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), accounting for 85% of internet ...
GSMA Leads on the Digital Skills Agenda at EQUALS Annual Partners Meeting
Tuesday 27 September, 2022 | Gender | International Relations
As one of the five co-founders of the EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age and Co-Chair of the EQUALS Skills Coalition, GSMA led a number of strategic discussions about the initiative’s 2023 roadmap at the 6th Annual EQUALS Partners and Coalition ...
GSMA Leads Digital Gender Inclusion Agenda at Women 20 Indonesian Presidency Summit
Tuesday 16 August, 2022 | Gender | International Relations | News - #BetterFuture
The W20 Indonesian Presidency Summit took place at Lake Toba, Indonesia on 19 to 21 July. As Co-Chair of the W20 Rural Women Working Group and member of the European Union delegation, the GSMA led the final negotiation rounds on the W20’s priority policy work in the ...
GSMA Brings Emerging Young Leaders to Hack for Digital and Financial Literacy
Friday 22 July, 2022 | International Relations | News - Industry Engagement
At a two-day Hackathon held on 8 and 9 July as part of a three-year capacity building project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme called “EQUALS EU”, GSMA brought together 19 participants with diverse skillsets and professional and educational background to hack for ...
AI for Impact Blog Series: (2) Governance models for Ethical AI
Friday 13 May, 2022 | Uncategorised
The previous blog of this series provided an introduction to the value of artificial intelligence (AI) and explained the importance of ethical AI. This blog will look at a key consideration when implementing AI into everyday business activities – the governance ...
AI for Impact Blog Series: (1) Introduction to Implementing Ethical Principles into Everyday Business
Monday 7 February, 2022 | Uncategorised
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful, emerging force transforming business and society. It can help organisations improve prediction, optimise operations, allocate resources more efficiently, and personalise digital solutions. PwC estimates AI could contribute ...
GSMA partners with EY, ITU and W4 to provide gender-transformative digital skills training through EQUALS #HerDigitalSkills
Thursday 16 December, 2021 | Gender | International Relations
As part of its commitments to the Innovation and Technology Action Coalition of UN Women’s Generation Equality, the GSMA has partnered with Ernst and Young (EY), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and Women’s World Wide Web (W4) to provide free ...
GSMA Joins #ChangetheFace Alliance
Thursday 9 December, 2021 | Gender | Goal 5 | International Relations
The GSMA has joined the #ChangetheFace Alliance, an informal partnership of like-minded and thought-leading technology companies that are committed to making the tech industry a more inclusive place. The Alliance has agreed to follow a set of Guiding Principles that set out ...
WATCH #MobileNetZero – How can mobile tech help us reach Net Zero faster, easier, and cheaper?
Tuesday 2 November, 2021 | Climate Action | Goal 13
The stream will go live at 14:00 (GMT) on 3 November – please join us then Agenda 14:00 – 14:10 – Welcome – Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA 14:15 – 14:30 – How mobile is going net zero? Speakers: Dr. Paul Ryu, Executive Vice-President, SK Telecom Andy ...
GSMA Leads Global Support for Championing Female Leadership at first EQUALS-EU public event
Monday 13 September, 2021 | Gender | International Relations
On the 4th of August 2021, the GSMA co-hosted the first EQUALS EU Colloquium “Perceptions of Power: Championing Female Leadership in the Digital Age” as part of the global EQUALS EU Project Consortium. It brought together almost 90 representatives from across the ...
GSMA leads digital gender equality agenda at W20 Summit
Wednesday 21 July, 2021 | Goal 5 | News - Sustainable and Responsible Leadership
On 13 July GSMA Chief Regulatory Officer John Giusti participated at the Women 20 (W20) Summit hosted by the G20 Italian Presidency in Rome. Established in 2015, the W20 is an official G20 engagement group and it aims to ensure due consideration is given to gender issues ...
Mobile and sustainability: Focusing on the issues that matter
Wednesday 14 July, 2021 | News - Sustainable and Responsible Leadership
The mobile industry’s purpose is to “Intelligently connect everyone and everything to a better future”. As a sector with more than five billion unique mobile subscribers and more than 8 billion mobile connections, the scope of the mobile sector to influence sustainability is ...
GSMA Makes Bold Commitments at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris
Thursday 1 July, 2021 | News Topic
The GSMA has made bold commitments on behalf of the mobile industry to tackle the mobile gender gap and promote digital inclusion for women and girls at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris. The forum was convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and ...
Driving Sustainability in the Mobile Sector – Training Course
Wednesday 5 May, 2021 | Uncategorised
Training Course Operating in a responsible and sustainable way is not just about doing the right thing for society or the environment—it also makes business sense in today’s commercial environment. This course looks at why operating responsibly is so important for companies ...
Human Rights for the Mobile Sector Series
Thursday 4 March, 2021 | News - #BetterFuture
Following the publication of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 and subsequent national and regional regulatory initiatives, there has been increasing focus on the roles and responsibilities of businesses with regards to human rights. Human rights ...