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Electrifying Kakuma Refugee Camp – the case for pay-as-you-go solar home systems

Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar is a flagship example of how mobile technology can help make clean energy affordable for low-income populations, while also creating sustainable business models. It has seen impressive growth in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia in the last five years, ...

Refunite’s LevelApp: Supporting refugees in Uganda

Refunite is a Round 1 grantee of the GSMA’s Disaster Response Innovation Fund. Through the grant project, they’re rolling out LevelApp for refugees in Uganda. This is a micro-tasking platform which provides users with a small income for each verified task they complete. ...

Recognising Urban Refugees in Jordan: Opportunities for mobile-enabled identity solutions

By Matthew Wilson and Jenny Casswell More than one billion people globally are unable to prove their identity. In an increasingly digitised world, where two-thirds of all people have a mobile phone, identity is a foundational element of this digital environment and being ...

Can we build a digital ecosystem to address humanitarian crises?

Monday 7 January, 2019 | Blog | English | Global | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation

Humanitarian crises present a daunting challenge to the humanitarian and private sectors. These crises are more prolonged, displacement lasts an average of 10 years, and conflict continues to be the main driver of humanitarian needs. Moreover, UN OCHA estimated that in 2018 ...

3 Key Trends from Round 2 of the GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund

During Mobile 360 Series – Africa in July 2018, the GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund (M4H) opened the call for Round 2 (grants of £100,000 and £300,000) for projects in Asia Pacific, Latin America, MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa. This Round was ...

Disaster Response Innovation Fund grantees in Africa announced

Recently, the GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation programme announced Flowminder Foundation and Nokia Saving Lives among the first grantees of the Disaster Response Innovation Fund. Round 1 was designed to invest in innovative solutions that leverage mobile technologies ...

Announcing the first two Disaster Response Innovation Fund grantees

In September 2017, with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the GSMA launched its Disaster Response Innovation Fund. The Fund was designed to invest in innovative solutions that leverage mobile technologies to save lives, alleviate suffering ...

5 Ways that Mobile is a Lifeline for Refugees and Displaced People

The UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends study published today highlights that forced displacement is at a record high, with 68.5 million people driven from their homes by the end of 2017. Yet, there is optimism that digital solutions and the ubiquity and pace of growth ...

Preparing for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season

As the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season has just begun, we continue to reflect on the impact of the 2017 hurricanes in the Caribbean. The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the worst ever recorded, causing widespread destruction, loss of life and long-term economic ...

Humanitarian Innovation: Key Trends from Round 1 of the Disaster Response Innovation Fund

Returning from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, one thing was clear; the topic of humanitarian innovation is becoming mainstream. MWC always provides an opportunity to find out about the latest innovations in the sector and this year there were no shortage of ...

Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation

For those of us at the GSMA, Mobile World Congress in many ways is the pinnacle of our year: an opportunity to meet and bring together our mobile industry and other partners, to showcase the progress made on our key topics and facilitate discussions that we hope will help ...

Humanitarian Payment Digitisation: Focus On Uganda’s Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement

Monday 13 November, 2017 | Blog | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Refugees and forced migrants | Uganda

For the first time in Uganda, mobile network operators (MNOs) are offering their mobile money bulk payment services to NGOs for the delivery of humanitarian cash transfers (HCT) to refugees. Our latest report explores how humanitarian organisations are collaborating with ...

Three takeaways from the Techfugees inaugural Global Summit

Wednesday 8 November, 2017 | Blog | Global | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Refugees and forced migrants

On 24 & 25 October the Disaster Response programme took part in the Techfugees Global Summit in the world’s largest start-up campus, Station F, in Paris. The event brought the tech community together with refugees and humanitarian organisations to showcase how technology ...

Sudatel highlights the mobile industry’s key role in elevating the quality of life for Internally Displaced People

In July 2017, Sudatel Group became the newest signatory of the Humanitarian Connectivity Charter (HCC), bringing the total number to 115 MNOs across 78 countries. Signatories of the HCC work to implement a number of activities to enhance access to communications and ...

International Day for Disaster Reduction: Industry response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria

Friday 13 October, 2017 | Blog | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation

Annually on 13th October, the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we reflect on the need for enhanced resilience and preparedness around the world. This year, just weeks after we have witnessed the destructive power of two of the Hurricanes on record, the message ...

Meeting humanitarian challenges with mobile: M4D at UNGA

Tuesday 26 September, 2017 | Blog | English | Global | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation

Last Thursday, on September 19th, GSMA Mobile for Development held a breakfast event in the SDG Media Zone at the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the opportunities presented by mobile technology in meeting humanitarian challenges. At the event participants heard ...

The Disaster Response Innovation Fund is open for applications

Since the inception of GSMA’s Disaster Response programme in 2012, we have worked with our GSMA members, humanitarian partners and the wider private and humanitarian sectors to drive the creation and adoption of coordinated, impactful solutions and practices that leverage ...

How effective is your Business Continuity Management Implementation? Part 2

This blog looks at how an organisations Business Continuity Management implementation may be deemed effective or ineffective. As already highlighted in the first part of this blog series, it is important for organisations to view such implementation beyond IT infrastructure ...

Mobile is a Lifeline: Research from Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania

Today, at the GSMA’s Mobile 360 – Africa we are launching a new report documenting the socio-economic impact of mobile connectivity for refugees in Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 10 months ago, we embarked on a journey to ...

On #WorldRefugeeDay: A Look at Refugees and Identity

Today, on the 20th of June, the international community is celebrating World Refugee Day by drawing attention to the unprecedented and ever-increasing number of people who have been forced to traverse international borders to escape physical, economic and social hardships ...

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