The importance of digital literacy to access sexual and reproductive health content via mobile internet
Thursday 21 January, 2021 | Blog | blog | Connected Society | Connected Women | Digital literacy | English | Gender | Mobile internet for women
We know that mobile internet content can bring invaluable benefits to millions of women worldwide. But developing relevant e-health services for women is not only about making information and services available through an app, a website, SMS or USSD channels; it’s also ...
Key take-aways from GSMA Connected Women at Thrive Africa
Monday 16 November, 2020 | Africa | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Sub-Saharan Africa
At the end of September 2020, over 90 people from all over the world – from the mobile industry, the ICT industry, governments, the international development sector and the academic community – joined the Connected Women seminar on reaching women at scale to accelerate ...
Grameenphone’s GPAY app: How small changes can make a big difference for women
Thursday 15 October, 2020 | Bangladesh | Blog | blog | Connected Women | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile internet for women | South Asia
Listening to customers to understand the barriers that restrict women from using mobile services can be instrumental in helping MNOs uncover some cost-effective quick wins for reaching female customers. This blog talks about one such quick win, which was unearthed by ...
Does just being a woman reduce the likelihood of using mobile?
Thursday 27 August, 2020 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile internet for women
Women in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) are 8 per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone, and 20 percent less likely to use mobile internet, or own a smartphone.[1] While this ‘mobile gender gap’ is well-documented, new econometric analysis by ...
The digital divide at the intersection of gender and disability
Thursday 16 July, 2020 | Assistive Tech | Blog | Connected Women | Digital inclusion for persons with disability | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
Our GSMA Connected Women and Assistive Tech teams analysed data from the GSMA Intelligence Consumer Survey 2019 to better understand the characteristics of digital inclusion of women with disabilities. The message is clear: women with disabilities are disproportionately ...
“Safety and security”: How mobile operators can improve the safety and security of their services for women to help close the mobile gender gap
Thursday 21 May, 2020 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile internet for women
This is one of a series of blogs that deep dives into our framework to help mobile operators close the gender gap in their customer base. This blog focuses on one of the five themes that we believe mobile operators should focus on to address the most common barriers ...
Adapting services for digital inclusion during COVID-19: Grameenphone’s Sign-Line
Thursday 21 May, 2020 | Assistive Tech | Bangladesh | Blog | Connected Society | Connected Women | COVID-19 | Digital inclusion for persons with disability | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever to ensure that everyone is digitally included. However, mobile internet and digital content are out of reach for many.
“Usability and skills”: How mobile operators can help close the mobile gender gap by improving the usability of their services and women’s skills
Thursday 14 May, 2020 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | Digital literacy | English | Gender | Mobile internet for women
This is one of a series of blogs that deep dives into our framework to help mobile operators close the gender gap in their customer base. This blog focuses on one of the five themes that we believe mobile operators should focus on to address the most common barriers ...
“Relevance”: How mobile operators can improve the relevance of their services for women to help close the mobile gender gap
Monday 27 April, 2020 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile internet for women
This is one of a series of blogs that deep dives into our framework to help mobile operators close the gender gap in their customer base. This blog focuses on one of the five themes that we believe mobile operators should focus on to address the most common barriers ...
Why COVID-19 has increased the urgency to reach women with mobile technology
Monday 20 April, 2020 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | COVID-19 | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile internet for women
As COVID-19 inevitably spreads across low- and middle-income countries resulting in tragic health and economic impacts, lockdowns, uncertainty and misinformation, a mobile phone can be a lifeline. Mobile is the primary way most people in these settings access the internet, ...
Announcing the Launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion
Wednesday 15 April, 2020 | Blog | blog | Connected Society | Connected Women | English | Gender | Innovation fund and grants | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
Mobile networks have become the primary way of accessing the internet in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), driving economic growth, enabling access to life-enhancing services, and creating multiple opportunities for people and businesses to thrive. In fact, at a time ...
M-Koba: Vodacom Tanzania’s Innovation to Digitise Savings Groups
Monday 23 March, 2020 | Africa | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania
“My younger sister was getting married in December 2019. As her elder sister, it was my responsibility to make sure that her day turned out exactly as she always dreamt of growing up. She had to look her best on the day and I needed extra money to make this happen.” Romana ...
10 years since the launch of the GSMA Connected Women Programme: Reflections on Progress
Friday 13 March, 2020 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile internet for women
This is an important year for reflection and renewed commitment to gender equality. It is 25 years since the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women where world leaders adopted a clear blueprint for achieving gender equality: the Beijing Declaration and Platform for ...
Econet’s EcoSure Solution: Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion in Zimbabwe
Monday 23 December, 2019 | Africa | Blog | blog | Building the financial ecosystem | Connected Women | English | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Sub-Saharan Africa | Zimbabwe
“Women need to be listened to. Technology is technology; it is the emotional appeal that will carry the day.” Godwin Mashiri, General Manager of Econet EcoSure, shares the importance of financial inclusion for women in Zimbabwe and the influential role they play.
From Benin to Zimbabwe – Reflections on Connected Women’s Capacity Building engagement
Thursday 31 October, 2019 | Benin | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile internet for women | Sub-Saharan Africa
Building capacity with regulators and policymakers has been at the forefront of the GSMA Connected Women’s team efforts to reduce the gender gap in mobile internet and mobile money services in low- and middle-income countries. Our course on ‘Bridging the Mobile Gender Gap’ ...
Mobile money: A product of choice for women to send and receive remittances
Tuesday 22 October, 2019 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile Money
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to participate in an International Experts Roundtable in Rome on the topic of “Women’s financial inclusion and the role of remittances”. This roundtable marked the occasion of the United Nations International Day of Family Remittances ...
The promise of mobile money for further advancing women’s financial inclusion
Monday 21 October, 2019 | Africa | Blog | blog | Building the financial ecosystem | Connected Women | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile Money | Sub-Saharan Africa
The findings of this blog are based on Findex 2017 microdata released in October 2018. In this blog, we discuss the role of mobile money in driving financial inclusion, particularly for women. Mobile money has the potential to close the gender gap in account ownership Since ...
The Conectadas Project: an innovative approach to deliver the Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit, empower women in Guatemala and increase MNO’s data revenues
Monday 21 October, 2019 | Blog | blog | Connected Society | Connected Women | Digital literacy | English | Gender | Guatemala | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile internet for women | South America
As part of the GSMA’s Connected Women Commitment Initiative, Tigo Guatemala committed to design strategies aiming to increase the proportion of women in their mobile internet customer base in Guatemala from 46% to 50% by 2020. To reach this goal, Tigo partnered with SHEVA, a ...
“Affordability”: How mobile operators can improve the affordability of their services for women to help close the mobile gender gap
Tuesday 15 October, 2019 | Blog | blog | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women
This is one of a series of blogs that deep dives into our framework to help mobile operators close the gender gap in their customer base. This blog focuses on one of the five themes that we believe mobile operators should focus on to address the most common barriers ...
The mobile gender gap in Asia: A region of rapid but unequal growth
Monday 23 September, 2019 | Asia and Australia | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Connected Women | East Asia and Pacific | English | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | South Asia
The GSMA’s Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019 highlighted that there is a persistent mobile gender gap in low- and middle-income countries, where women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile and 23% less likely to use mobile internet. The scale of the mobile gender gap ...