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Achieving Climate Targets: Navigating the Path Without Greenwashing
Friday 22 September, 2023 | Climate Action
We are witnessing climate change happening all around us, but there is a gap between government policies and the ambition needed to address it. Step forward the private sector, which is helping to close this gap with ambitious targets. The mobile sector is aiming ...
How to align an industry for a net zero transition
Wednesday 2 August, 2023 | Climate Action
In today’s rapidly heating world, addressing climate change has become a top priority for industries across the globe. The big question: how do you transform a whole industry? First, you need a vision of what to transform into. This could be the vision of reducing an ...
The GSMA Champions Digital Gender Inclusion at W20 India Summit
Tuesday 25 July, 2023 | Gender | Goal 5
During the recent W20 Summit which took place in Mahabalipuram, India, on 15 and 16 June, W20 delegations representing G20 member states gathered to adopt a strong Communique which provided policy recommendations around the five core priority issues under the G20 India ...
GSMA Convenes Rising Female Innovators in Tech for a Three Week Long Capacity Building Summer School
Friday 21 July, 2023 | Gender
As part of the Equals EU capacity building and research project on bridging the gender gap in social innovation, GSMA convened a 3 week long summer school for 16 rising female innovators in tech which focused on supporting their further professional development and ...
The GSMA’s Bridging the Mobile Gender Gap Capacity Building Course – Impact Story
Thursday 13 July, 2023 | Gender
The GSMA’s Bridging the Mobile Gender Gap (BMGG) course helps policymakers and regulators understand the size and drivers of the mobile gender gap in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and provides insights and recommendations on how to improve digital inclusion ...
How Are We Progressing To Net Zero?
Wednesday 24 May, 2023 | Climate Action
Back in 2019, the GSMA set an ambition on behalf of the mobile industry: to be net zero by 2050. This was a bold step pre-dating any G7 economy commitment to net zero. This ambitious goal aimed to harness the momentum of progressive mobile network operators worldwide, laying ...
The GSMA leads digital gender inclusion discussions at 67th Session of United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
Tuesday 25 April, 2023 | Gender | Goal 5 | International Relations
In March, the GSMA joined the 67th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). CSW is the UN’s largest annual gathering where gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls are discussed by governments, the private sector, civil society ...
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 ...