Announcing The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services Cohort
Tuesday 12 April, 2022 | Asia Pacific | Blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Innovation fund and grants | Sanitation | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Water
Africa and Asia are projected to account for 90 per cent of global urban growth from now until 2050. Unfortunately, urbanisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is not always accompanied by inclusive growth and structural transformation with informal settlements ...
Application Trends and Highlights from The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services
Thursday 31 March, 2022 | Africa | Asia Pacific | Blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Innovation fund and grants | Sanitation | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Waste Management | Water
In May 2021, The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services was launched to catalyse investment in start-ups, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and social enterprises working in Africa, South and Southeast Asia that leverage digital technology to deliver digital urban ...
Mobile for Development at COP26
Monday 20 December, 2021 | AgriTech | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Global | Mobile for Development
In the beginning of November this year, the world leaders came together for COP26 in Glasgow to accelerate climate action across the globe. Mobile and digital services form an important part of the solution. In this blog, we highlight how GSMA Mobile for Development ...
The Climate Crisis: Mobile-enabled solutions to address the growing humanitarian challenge
Thursday 11 November, 2021 | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Frontier Technology | Global | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation
World leaders recently gathered in Glasgow at COP26 to accelerate action towards addressing climate change. They’ve come from around the world to grapple with the most pressing existential crisis of our time with an urgent need to reduce global emissions. No matter how ...
The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation: Open now
Tuesday 9 November, 2021 | Africa | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development
This week, during the Science and Innovation day at COP26, the GSMA, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and ...
COP26 highlights the need to transform smallholder agriculture: Can digital solutions be an enabler?
Monday 8 November, 2021 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | Farmer credit scoring | Financial Inclusion | Financial inclusion for farmers | Global | Index insurance | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Resilient technology
Two years since COP25, during which the impacts of climate change have become ever more evident, the focus now shifts to Glasgow for COP26 and what many are seeing as the last chance to take meaningful action. Smallholder agriculture is one of the most vulnerable sectors to ...
A new mechanism to catalyse distributed renewable energy
Wednesday 13 October, 2021 | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Energy | Global | Global | Mobile for Development
Research shows that accessing finance is a critical barrier limiting mobile tower owners from adopting on-site renewable energy solutions. Typical fossil fuel powered solutions like diesel generators are relatively cheap to buy; the materials are readily available, and the ...
Tech for a Better Planet: Perspectives from the ClimateTech team
Wednesday 18 August, 2021 | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Global | Mobile for Development
On 5 August it was a privilege to take part in the Tech for a Better Planet symposium, which was co-organised by Huawei and IUCN, and supported by the ITU. The online event was held in recognition that there is an urgent need for innovative digital solutions to address the ...
Exploring the use of mobile technology in participatory forest management
Friday 9 July, 2021 | Africa | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Kenya | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Natural resource management
Forests play a crucial role in stabilising our climate by regulating ecosystems, protecting biodiversity, absorbing carbon, and reducing soil erosion. However, forests and forest-related livelihoods remain under threat from deforestation and forest degradation: 290 million ...
Catalysing Digital Innovation in Plastics and Waste Management: The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services
Wednesday 16 June, 2021 | Africa | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Circular economy | Climate | ClimateTech | Digital Utilities | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile for Development
The world currently produces over 2 billion tonnes of solid waste every year, according to the World Bank, and by 2050 this is expected to increase to 3.4 billion tonnes. Around 12 per cent of our waste is made out of plastic – one of the world’s least-perfect recyclable ...
The Renewable Energy Dashboard
Thursday 3 June, 2021 | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Energy | Global | Global | Mobile for Development | Resource
We are pleased to announce the launch of the GSMA ClimateTech Renewable Energy Dashboard. In this blog we will answer some frequently asked questions about the Dashboard, explaining what it is and how you can use it in your work. What is the Renewable Energy Dashboard? The ...
Announcing the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services
Monday 17 May, 2021 | Africa | Blog | blog | ClimateTech | Digital Utilities | East Asia and Pacific | South Asia
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 ...
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 ...
Digital Dividends in Plastic Recycling
Thursday 22 April, 2021 | Africa | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Circular economy | Climate | ClimateTech | East Asia and Pacific | Mobile for Development | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
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), ...
Combating climate change with mobile and digital technologies
Thursday 1 April, 2021 | Blog | blog | Climate | ClimateTech | Global
In November, the UK hosts COP26 in Glasgow. We will seek to accelerate action to reduce emissions, strengthen adaptation and resilience to the impacts of climate change, scale up means of implementation, protect and restore nature, and empower inclusive action. ...
How renewable energy solutions are helping mobile operators reduce emissions and support remote communities
Monday 22 March, 2021 | Blog | blog | ClimateTech | Latin America & the Caribbean
The need for cleaner energy generation is clear. Published in September 2020, GSMA’s report, Renewable Energy for Mobile Towers estimates that emissions from off-grid and bad-grid mobile towers were responsible for 3 per cent of the mobile industry’s CO2 emissions or around ...
Forests and livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet
Wednesday 3 March, 2021 | Blog | blog | ClimateTech | Global | Global
Today marks World Wildlife Day, this year it’s a day to highlight the central role of forests, forest-species and ecosystem services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally. Halting and reversing deforestation delivers a cost-effective and ...
The growth of renewable energy for mobile towers: The role of eco-system players and innovative technology
Wednesday 3 February, 2021 | Blog | blog | ClimateTech | Energy
At the end of 2020 GSMA CleanTech published ‘Renewable Energy for Mobile Towers’, a report that examined the current state of the mobile tower industry, how it has changed over recent years, and the barriers that still need to be overcome before the majority of off-grid and ...
Introducing the new GSMA CleanTech video on ‘Renewable Energy for Mobile Towers’
Tuesday 19 January, 2021 | Bangladesh | Blog | blog | ClimateTech | Democratic Republic of Congo | Energy | Fiji | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mali | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Myanmar | Peru | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Uganda
In September 2020 at GSMA Thrive Africa, the GSMA CleanTech programme published a report on renewable energy – ‘Renewable Energy for Mobile Towers’. This short video summarises the key trends highlighted in the report. As the industry implements strategies to achieve net ...