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Digital technologies for smallholder climate resilience

Life on the 475m smallholder farms across low and middle income countries has always been challenging. With little access to improved inputs, formal markets or finance, smallholder agriculture yields fall far short of their potential. This affects individual livelihoods and ...

COVID-19’s impact on mental health in humanitarian contexts

Since July 2019, Naya Jeevan has been a part of our GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian (M4H) Innovation Fund portfolio. Round two of the Fund focused on supporting organisations to enable solutions to empower, assist or protect individuals and communities affected by complex ...

Scaling digital services in the pandemic

This post is part of a blog series on funding provided by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) that the GSMA awarded to nine previous grantees in the water, sanitation, education, health and food security sectors which enabled them to continue ...

Announcing the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services

This week the GSMA announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Urban services such as plastics and waste management, energy, water, and sanitation are essential to ...

Growing adoption of mobile money in the water and sanitation sectors

Balancing tradition and digitisation in the tea sector in Sri Lanka

This is the second blog in a series introducing the grantees and key partners supporting The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains. “I’ve heard of mobile money, but I’m not really sure what use it is to me…” An ...

Digital Identity & Mobile: The Power Duo behind Inclusive Digital Transformation and 5 trends we’ve spotted over the last year

The COVID pandemic has amplified the role of mobile in enabling access to life-enhancing digital services in one’s own name by empowering individuals to assert their identity digitally (and remotely). Through our projects and research, generously supported by the UK’s ...

How TowerCos are tackling increasing cell site power demands using energy efficiency, mini-grids and renewable energy solutions

Thursday 6 May, 2021 | Blog | blog | ClimateTech | Energy

The first and the second blogs of our renewable energy series, focused on how ecosystem players and MNOs are using renewable energy (RE) solutions to overcome technical and geographic challenges, expand networks into unconnected areas and lighten operator balance sheets. For ...

Opportunities and challenges for water and sanitation providers in the pandemic

Three lessons from the Lumkani, Fire Detection and Insurance GSMA grant project

The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The first round of the Fund focused on providing support to help to test or scale innovative ideas which support responses to ...

The impact of funding digital innovations to respond to COVID-19: Health, education and food security

Building resilience through mobile-enabled solutions: Lessons for innovators

Mobile networks and the connectivity they provide can be a lifeline for those affected by sudden-onset disasters and protracted humanitarian crises. Be it access to critical information, the ability to communicate with family and friends, or through the provision of ...

Driving inclusion of farmers with disabilities through digital agriculture

Around 70 per cent of world’s population relies upon food produced by smallholder farmers[1]. However, many farmers experience poor access to services, markets and assets that impact their livelihoods and leaves them vulnerable to external events like climate change. Digital ...

Digital Dividends in Plastic Recycling

Plastic is an integral and valuable part of the global economy, and is used in thousands of products that add comfort, convenience and safety to our everyday lives. It supports innovation in medicine, lightens cars and airplanes (saving fuel and, therefore, emissions), ...

The impact of funding digital innovations to respond to COVID-19: Water and sanitation

Mobile money: Embracing Disruption and Building Resilience

This is the first in a series of blogs focusing on the insights from the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2021. A couple of weeks ago, we launched this year’s State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money. In a year like no other, the report looks at how the ...

COVID-19 and digital humanitarian action: Virtual vs in-person training

This blog post is the final in a series exploring COVID-19 and its impact on digital humanitarian action. More findings related to current trends, risks and the path forward can be found in our report. Since August 2019, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has been a ...

Mobile Money API Specification 1.2 – Release Blog

Tuesday 13 April, 2021 | Blog | English | Inclusive Tech Lab | Mobile Money

Mobile money continues to grow exponentially across developing markets – the GSMA State the Industry Report 2021 highlights include 1.2 billion accounts in 2020, with 310 providers responsible for transacting $2.1 billion every day. Enabling seamless integrations ...

The GSMA Mobile Money API as an enabler for Sustainable Development Goals

Tuesday 13 April, 2021 | Blog | Inclusive Tech Lab | Mobile Money

Mapping GSMA Mobile Money API use cases to the SDGs Since their inception, mobile money services have long been discussed as a vector for financial inclusion. In a previous report, Harnessing the Power of Mobile Money to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we explored ...

Announcing the GSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion Grantees

For most of the world’s population, mobile is the primary way to access the internet. Although access to mobile internet is driving digital inclusion, there is still a ‘usage gap’ with over 3.4 billion people living in areas covered by mobile broadband networks but who are ...

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