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The GSMA Co-Publishes First of Its Kind Gender Transformative Digital Skills Education Framework

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To celebrate International Women’s History month the GSMA has co-published the first of its kind gender transformative digital skills education framework which was presented at a high level event hosted on the fringes of the 68th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of ...

The GSMA Celebrates the Successful Conclusion of a Three Year Gender Equality in STEM Project

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To mark International Women’s Day this year the GSMA is celebrating the successful conclusion of a three year capacity building and research project aimed at bridging the gender gap in digital and social innovation.  Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, the EQUALS ...

How the mobile sector can help expand clean energy access and drive Sub-Saharan Africa’s development goals

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Energy and mobile connectivity are fundamental to modern societies. Across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), essential services like water, transport, health care, and banking require reliable digital and energy services to function. Reliable mobile connectivity is especially ...

Reflections on COP28

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Another COP-out? Or did COP28 in Dubai achieve genuine progress on climate action? There are strong arguments for both, but no one could say that it has put the world on course to limit global heating to 1.5C. Any UN process seeking unanimous agreement from all member states ...

Achieving Climate Targets: Navigating the Path Without Greenwashing

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...