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Highlights from Disaster Response at Mobile World Congress

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Mobile World Congress is once again behind us, and as the excitement of the numerous launches passes, the analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote continues, and most of the 85,000 of us that attended Congress leave Barcelona, we are able to reflect on some of our key highlights.

New publication: A2A interoperability – making mobile money schemes interoperable

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As the mobile money industry begins to give more serious attention to interoperability, MMU is working with industry players to advance the conversation and support early movers and on-going implementations. As part of this work, MMU released a new paper titled ‘A2A ...

A Winning Service: Easypaisa’s Mobile Financial Services Proposition for Women in Pakistan

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At last year’s Mobile World Congress, the GSMA mWomen Programme highlighted that women are an underserved market for Mobile Financial Services in developing countries. Launched in partnership with Visa, the 2013 report ‘Unlocking the Potential: Women and Mobile Financial ...

Key takeaways from GPM’s Nigeria & Ghana Working Group

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The Green Power for Mobile (GPM) programme has successfully convened its Nigeria & Ghana Working Group in Lagos, Nigeria on the 29th and 30th January 2014. The Working Group was co-hosted by IHS Towers Nigeria, and is a follow up to our Nigeria-specific Working Group a ...

GSMA Disaster Response releases a new case study on Refugees United; ‘Reconnecting Refugees through Mobile’

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With an estimated 42.2 million refugees worldwide, the task of reconnecting families who have been separated is a daunting one. Through partnering with MNO’s, Refugees United, the world’s largest global family tracing platform for refugees, is attempting to do just this.

Reaching women at scale & the benefits of mobile broadband: Key lessons from the GSMA mWomen Seminar at Mobile World Congress 2014

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Mobile has the extraordinary potential to transform societies and economies, reach the most remote communities and deliver life-enhancing services to resource-poor women. With this in mind, more than 100 people convened at the GSMA mWomen seminar at Mobile World Congress ...

Etisalat joins Dialog Sri Lanka’s mobile money deployment eZ Cash

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Dialog Axiata Sri Lanka launched eZ Cash in 2012 just after a new and enabling e-money regulation was put in place. Earlier last year we presented an infographic showing the results of eZ Cash and how lifting the regulatory barriers enabled investments that have led to ...

How does GSMA mHealth bring Mobile and Health together? It’s Simple

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As someone who has recently joined the ever evolving space of health and mobile, I have often found myself asking: Who are the participants in the mobile ecosystem? How does GSMA bring Mobile and Health together? What is the role of the GSMA in an environment where we have ...

GSMA Disaster Response releases a new case study on The Vodafone Foundation Instant Network Programme

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We profile the 'Vodafone Instant Network programme', the technology and it's use.

The GSMA releases MMU 2013 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Financial Services for the Unbanked

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The GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme today releases its 2013 State of the Industry Report. The report contains key findings and insights on the growth of the mobile financial services sector, including mini case studies and mobile money best practices. This ...

Mobile and the Every Newborn Action Plan

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The private sector has been invited to join the global community in mobilizing support for the world’s first Every Newborn Action Plan. An estimated 2.9 million newborns died in 2012 and a further 2.6 million babies were stillborn. The Plan sets a bold and ambitious target ...

New Report: Transforming Women’s Livelihoods Through Mobile Broadband

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Mobile technology has the unprecedented potential to transform the lives of resource-poor women around the world.  As shown in the seminal Women and Mobile: a Global Opportunity report released in 2010 by the GSMA mWomen programme, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and ...

Moving to the midline – a new approach to evaluating mKisan

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mKisan provides market prices, weather and agronomy information to a target market of smallholder farmers in rural India. In a previous blogpost, we identified a number of bottlenecks where customers get ‘stuck’ on the way to becoming repeat mKisan users where they use ...

How mobile technology can be used in preparedness, response and early warning to monitor floods

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Recent extreme weather events in the UK and North America remind us that the impact of a changing climate will not be limited to the developing world, or tropical regions, and that a global view of potential solutions and partnerships is essential to build more resilient ...

GSMA mWomen awards Innovation Fund grant to Grameen Foundation

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The GSMA mWomen team is pleased to announce that Grameen Foundation is the latest recipient of an Innovation Fund grant. Grameen Foundation joins Accion International and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) as the third NGO to be awarded a grant to develop a mobile ...

MECS Awards Second Round of Innovation Fund Grants

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Announcement of the the second round of Phase 1 grantees

M-KOPA Solar’s New Funding: A Landmark for Off Grid Energy Service Companies

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Announcement of new funding for M-Kopa - a Phase 1 grantee of M4D Utilities

Activating your mobile money customers: could an outbound call-centre work for you?

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Low customer active rates have been a continual challenge across the mobile money industry. As of June 2012, the industry-wide customer active rate stood at just 22%. This problem can have a number of causes including low awareness of service, negative registration ...

‘Build back better’, Social Media and the Private Sector – Resources for Disaster Response

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In recent months a number of reports and research studies have been published, each of them contributing in some way to the field of disaster response and the role of mobile technologies. We profile some of the most interesting.

Global Mobile Awards – Nominee Profiles: Millicom – Tigo Ghana and Vodafone Foundation, Cherie Blair Foundation and the Self Employed Women’s Association

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In just a few weeks the mobile ecosystem will gather at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, to discuss the future of the mobile industry and celebrate the winners of the Global Mobile Awards, the most highly sought after awards in the global communications industry. ...