Top Tips for GSMA Innovation Fund Applicants
Thursday 5 January, 2023 | Africa | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Disaster response | East Asia and Pacific | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
Submitting your pitch proposal for the GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action – Tips and thoughts from previous grantees Applying for the GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action requires submitting an application form, where several ...
Mobile Innovation in Anticipatory Humanitarian Action
Wednesday 7 December, 2022 | Africa | Asia and Australia | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Climate Resilience | Disaster response | East Asia and Pacific | Europe and Central Asia | Innovation Fund | Latin America & the Caribbean | Middle East and North Africa | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Preparedness | Resilient technology | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
As disasters globally increase in frequency and severity, it is more important than ever for the humanitarian community, and partners across other industries, to strengthen systems of anticipation, preparedness, and resilience. Anticipatory Action refers to acting ahead of a ...
Increasing awareness and preventing sexual and gender-based violence through mobile-enabled gamification
Friday 25 November, 2022 | Blog | blog | Digital literacy | Gender | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Rwanda | Sub-Saharan Africa
Violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most prevalent human rights violations. Worldwide an estimated one in three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in their lifetime. Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) undermines its survivors’ ...
The GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action Opens Today
Thursday 24 November, 2022 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Global | Innovation Fund | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Uncategorized
I am pleased to announce the launch of The GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action. The fund will provide grants and additional support to organisations that leverage digital technology, especially mobile, to deliver solutions which anticipate potential ...
Leveraging mobile technology to meet humanitarian needs through strategic partnerships
Friday 26 August, 2022 | Africa | Blog | blog | Burundi | Disaster response | Kenya | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Partnership engagement | Policy and regulation | Public-MNO | Resilient technology | Somaliland
Partnerships between the mobile industry and the humanitarian sector have been increasing remarkably since the onset of Covid-19, with more humanitarian organisations adopting digital solutions to deliver assistance. The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (M4H) ...
Three lessons from Ahlan Simsim, Sesame Workshop’s GSMA-funded innovation project
Tuesday 19 July, 2022 | Blog | Disaster response | Education | Middle East | Middle East and North Africa | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Refugees and forced migrants
The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The second round of the Fund focused on; testing new technical solutions; catalysing ideas to improve or transform ...
World Refugee Day – The power (and limits) of mobile technology
Saturday 18 June, 2022 | Africa | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Europe and Central Asia | Global | Innovation Fund | Middle East and North Africa | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Refugees and forced migrants | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa
Worldwide 89.3 million people are forcibly displaced 27.1 million of these people have crossed a border and are refugees. As a result of conflict, violence, human rights violations, and increasingly severe climate shocks, a growing number of people are forced to flee homes ...
Three lessons from FlowKit, Flowminder’s GSMA-funded innovation project
Tuesday 17 May, 2022 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Ghana | Haiti | Innovation fund and grants | Latin America & the Caribbean | Middle East and North Africa | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Mozambique | Preparedness | Resilient technology | Sub-Saharan Africa
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 ...
User Perspectives in Humanitarian Settings: Initial Insights
Tuesday 10 May, 2022 | Africa | Blog | blog | Country | East Asia and Pacific | English | Financial inclusion for women | Lebanon | Middle East and North Africa | Mobile | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Papua New Guinea | Refugees and forced migrants | Resilient technology | South Sudan
In September 2021, the Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation team kicked off a large-scale piece of mixed methods research in partnership with the UNHCR and The Research People. Our goals were to better understand how people in humanitarian settings use their mobile phones, to ...
EarthSpark; Powering resilience in Haiti
Friday 22 April, 2022 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Energy | Haiti | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Resilient technology | Rural network coverage | Smart infrastructure
In conversation with EarthSpark; Staying flexible in the face of a sudden-onset disaster Since 2020, EarthSpark International has been a part of our Mobile for Humanitarian (M4H) Innovation Fund Portfolio. The Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology ...
Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation in 2021
Thursday 24 March, 2022 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Frontier Technology | Global | Innovation Fund | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Partnership engagement | Preparedness | Refugees and forced migrants | Uncategorized
Publishing our 2021 annual report provides the opportunity to reflect on another eventful year in our Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (M4H) programme. Humanitarian needs continued to rise, and digital services and solutions were increasingly used in preparedness, ...
MWC22 – When Disaster Strikes: Mobile’s Role in Humanitarian Assistance
Wednesday 9 March, 2022 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Frontier Technology | Global | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Policy and regulation | Preparedness | Refugees and forced migrants
As part of MWC 2022, Kimberly Brown, Head of Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (M4H), hosted a panel discussion titled: When Disaster Strikes: Mobile’s Role in Humanitarian Assistance. Appearing on the stage at the Ministerial Programme in Barcelona, Kimberly was joined by ...
Three lessons from Nokia Saving Lives, GSMA-funded innovation project
Monday 21 February, 2022 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Philippines
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 ...
In Conversation with OmniVis: Rapid Cholera Testing in Kenya and Bangladesh
Thursday 17 February, 2022 | Africa | Asia Pacific | Bangladesh | Blog | blog | COVID-19 | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Kenya | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation
It is estimated that each year there are 1.3 to 4 million cases of cholera worldwide and close to 143,000 deaths. In 2017, this number catapulted when over 1 million individuals were infected in Yemen as the country underwent political and military crisis. A lower priority ...
Framework for the assessment of emergency response policy by national authorities
Monday 10 January, 2022 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Global | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation
Effective management of risks associated with disasters depends on the level of preparedness and communication and information sharing across all levels of government, within humanitarian communities, and across public and private sector organisations. Numerous after-action ...
How do people in humanitarian crises use their mobile phones? Introducing our new research
Thursday 16 December, 2021 | Blog | blog | Lebanon | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Papua New Guinea | Refugees and forced migrants | South Sudan
The role that mobile connectivity plays in the lives of people affected by humanitarian crisis has never been more important to understand. Connectivity, or the lack of it, is now central to many dimensions of lives and livelihoods. Digital channels have played a large role ...
In conversation with Solidarités International: Artificial Intelligence in a humanitarian context
Monday 13 December, 2021 | Blog | blog | Innovation Fund | Middle East and North Africa | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Refugees and forced migrants
Since September 2020, Solidarités International has been a part of our GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian (M4H) Innovation Fund portfolio. The Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. Solidarités International, a French ...
GSMA’s Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund: Grantee Portfolio 2017-2022
Wednesday 8 December, 2021 | Blog | blog | Disaster response | Frontier Technology | Global | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Preparedness | Resilient technology
We are delighted to publish the ‘GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund Portfolio 2017 – 2022’, a report detailing each of the exciting and impactful projects to have received funding and support from the M4H Innovation Fund* since its inception in 2017. When we ...
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 ...
Trust, misinformation and the role of technology in the localisation of information: Five key lessons
Friday 5 November, 2021 | Blog | blog | English | Global | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation
As COVID-19 has illustrated, in the context of a pandemic almost nothing is as important as timely, trustworthy, and actionable information. Due to the circumstances, mobile technology came to play a key role in disseminating information over the last 18 months. And while ...