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Leading for the Long Term
Wednesday 22 January, 2020 | News Topic
The days in which businesses were judged only on the profits they deliver to investors are fading fast. Far-sighted companies now pursue a triple bottom line, in which profits sit alongside people and the planet. The mobile industry is in the vanguard of this profound shift ...
Taking Transparency and Inclusivity to the Next Level
Thursday 9 January, 2020 | News Topic
Across the world, public trust in institutions, including businesses, has been deteriorating. The causes are complex and multi-faceted. But the mobile industry is taking concrete steps to reverse this trend. For mobile operators and their partners, one of the priorities is ...
How progressive leaders of the mobile industry are taking climate action
Friday 6 December, 2019 | News Topic
The landscape of modern-day leadership is evolving. A progressive and innovative approach is essential for tackling the immeasurable global challenges, such as climate change, the planet is facing. The mobile industry is the sector at the forefront of innovation and ...
How the mobile industry is building stronger communities resilient to climatic extremes
Thursday 21 November, 2019 | News - #BetterFuture
As the earth’s temperature continues to rise, extreme weather patterns and cataclysmic natural disasters are becoming more frequent around the world. Increasingly violent and turbulent weather conditions are emblematic of the severity of climate change. Weather-related ...
How mobile will be a leading enabler for reduced emissions across wider sectors
Tuesday 12 November, 2019 | Goal 13 | News Topic
The mobile industry is one of many key sectors playing a crucial role addressing the challenge of climate change. It is committed to reducing its own emissions in line with the Paris Agreement through the industry-wide climate action roadmap, to achieve net-zero greenhouse ...
The mobile industry: cutting toxic emissions to save the planet
Monday 4 November, 2019 | Goal 13 | Goals | News - #BetterFuture
The planet is in the grip of the climate change epidemic, largely due to the fog of dangerous emissions clouding the earth’s atmosphere. Millennial environmental activists have the ear of world leaders; their criticism towards international governments for their ...
Transforming societies: harnessing mobile connectivity across Africa
Friday 2 August, 2019 | Goal 4 | Goal 5 | Goal 8 | News - #BetterFuture | News - #CaseForChange
Mobile connectivity is the most effective vehicle to support a digitally inclusive world. With mobile networks spanning the globe and serving more than 5 billion people, the mobile industry’s leaders are united in their commitment to ensure formerly excluded members of ...
Giving an identity to the world’s invisible children
Wednesday 24 July, 2019 | Goal 16 | Goals | News - #BetterFuture | News - #CaseForChange
The World Bank has estimated a billion people globally, are not legally recognised as having an identity. Children under the age of 18, represent around 40% of this demographic. The ramifications of not being registered at birth are abundant; people are immediately excluded ...
Doing the Right Thing: How industry leaders are taking personal responsibility for delivering the SDGs
Monday 29 April, 2019 | News - Sustainable and Responsible Leadership
This article is part of the Forum Network series on International Co-operation and will feed into upcoming discussions at OECD Forum 2019. Industry is playing a key role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but it’s important to remember that companies are ...
Blog: Applying the SDGs: Delivering value with purpose
Friday 25 January, 2019 | News - Sustainable and Responsible Leadership
Organisations with strong sustainability strategies are using the Sustainable Development Goals to sharpen their focus and clarify their contribution to tackling our biggest challenges In September 2018, Oxfam published a discussion paper ‘Walking the Talk’, suggesting that ...
Blog: Leaders of sustainable success
Monday 21 January, 2019 | News - Sustainable and Responsible Leadership | Uncategorised
Let’s not brush over the hard work; results require action. Meeting sustainability challenges needs resources, focus, committed effort and some defined direction. Getting started on the journey is important, but research has shown time and again, that companies who set goals ...
Closing the mobile gender gap
Wednesday 18 July, 2018 | News - Sustainable and Responsible Leadership | News Topic
Mobile has the power to transform lives. In my role as Director General of the GSMA, I have seen firsthand how mobile can empower women by making them feel safer and more connected and by giving them access to information and life-enhancing opportunities, often for the first ...
GSMA and W20 announce call to action to close digital gender gap ahead of G20 Summit
Tuesday 12 June, 2018 | News - Industry Engagement | News Topic
As part of its role within the W20 (Women 20) group, the GSMA has backed a series of recommendations to promote digital inclusion for women to be presented to the G20 member states later this year. The GSMA is Topic Chair of the Digital Inclusion theme within the W20, which ...
Blog: How AI and Big Data are tackling the health impacts of urbanisation
Thursday 17 May, 2018 | News - Big Data for Social Good | News Topic
The theme of the ITU’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2018 is ‘AI For Good’. To mark the day, Jeanine Vos, Head of the GSMA SDG Accelerator, is speaking at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. Her guest blog for the ITU deep dives into ...
GSMA marks Girls in ICT Day
Friday 27 April, 2018 | News - Industry Engagement | News Topic
The GSMA celebrated the annual ITU International Girls in ICT Day with a series of events across its global footprint aimed at encouraging and empowering young women to explore career opportunities in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas and ...
Blog series: Experiencing the #CaseForChange
Thursday 1 March, 2018 | News - #CaseForChange | News Topic
The #CaseForChange has now travelled over 130,000km around the world, capturing impactful stories of how mobile is transforming lives. For the teams on the ground, this amazing journey provided the opportunity to be brought into the world of these individuals. To reflect on ...
World Bank Group and GSMA announce partnership to leverage IOT Big Data for development
Monday 26 February, 2018 | News - Big Data for Social Good | News Topic
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced today that the institution would partner with the GSMA and mobile network operators around the globe to harness big data from the Internet of Things (IoT) to help end extreme poverty and unlock new drivers of economic growth.
GSMA announces successful first wave of trials for Big Data for Social Good
Monday 26 February, 2018 | News - Big Data for Social Good | News Topic
The GSMA has achieved significant progress in the first trials of its Big Data for Social Good initiative by Bharti Airtel, Telefónica and Telenor, creating a blueprint for future deployments that leverages mobile operators’ big data capabilities to address the Sustainable ...
Blog: Supporting the SDGs through the Power of Data
Thursday 8 February, 2018 | News - #BetterFuture | News - Industry Engagement | News Topic
To wrap up 2017, the GSMA, the UN Foundation and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data met with UN agencies and country missions to discuss the actual and potential contribution of partnerships and data to a better world. The GSMA shared concrete examples ...
Blog: World Children’s Day
Tuesday 21 November, 2017 | News - #BetterFuture | News - Industry Engagement | News Topic
For World Children’s Day 2017, UNICEF launched its #KidsTakeOver campaign. The campaign enabled children to take over key roles in politics, media, business and more to voice their support for less fortunate children around the world. In support of the campaign, the ...