Mobile for Development Resources

On Wednesday 31 May, the GSMA Connected Women team launched the Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023. At the virtual launch event, Claire Sibthorpe, GSMA spoke with Aamir Ibrahim, Jazz, about his ...

Peter Ndegwa, CEO, Safaricom

On Wednesday 31 May, the GSMA Connected Women team launched the Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023. At the virtual launch event, Claire Sibthorpe, GSMA spoke with Peter Ndegwa, Safaricom, about ...

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, ITU

On Wednesday 31 May, the GSMA Connected Women team launched the Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023. At the virtual launch event, Claire Sibthorpe, GSMA spoke with Doreen Bogdan-Martin, ITU ...

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023 shares the latest data on the mobile gender gap, the key barriers preventing women’s equal access to and use of mobile, and explores what is needed to close the mobile internet gender gap.

GSMA Innovation Fund for Assistive Tech: Meet the founders

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Assistive Tech was set up to find start-ups, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and social enterprises in Africa and Asia that are driving the digital inclusion of people with ...

GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation: Meet the founders

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation was launched with the support of our donors, to help accelerate the testing, adoption and scalability of digital innovations that enable the world’s most vulnerable ...

GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services: Meet the founders

Tuesday 30 May 2023 | Digital Utilities | Innovation Fund | Video |

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services was launched to support organisations that provide essential urban services and leverage digital innovations and partnerships to make these services accessible, reliable, sustainable ...

GSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion: Meet the founders

Tuesday 30 May 2023 | Connected Society | Innovation Fund | Video |

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion was set up to help address the key digital inclusion barriers that are preventing 3.4 billion people from adopting life-enhancing mobile internet ...

M4H Innovation Fund lessons and outcomes: SOLIS Bot

The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in using mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The

Climate change adaptation and livelihood restoration in Tana River Delta

Climate change and land degradation threatens livelihoods and food security of rural communities across Tana River Delta. In response, World Vision Kenya (WVK) – a Christian relief, advocacy and development organisation – have embraced ...

Empowering persons with disabilities through digital innovation: Insights from the GSMA Innovation Fund

About 1.3 billion people, or 16% of the global population, experience a significant disability. Approximately 80% of this population live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and are often marginalised in society. About nine in ...

Frontier Tech Video Series

The Central Insights Unit hosts a series of fireside chats with industry experts and practitioners exploring the opportunity to leverage frontier technologies for sustainable development.

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services: Portfolio overview

This catalogue profiles the nine organisations accepted into The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services cohort, as well as insights from an analysis of all pitches received.

Digitally Enabled Climate Finance

This flagship report by the GSMA ClimateTech programme provides emerging insights on the role of mobile and digital technology in accessing and delivering climate finance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

IoT and Essential Utility Services: Opportunities in low- and middle-income countries

Documents

This report reviews the extent to which 17 key IoT utilities-focused use cases have been deployed across five markets. It assesses the state and maturity of deployments in India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, and Nigeria.

State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2023

Mobile money has experienced staggering growth over the past two decades, cementing itself as a mainstream financial service. Today, it continues the trend by diversifying and branching out into new regions, industries, and services. ...

State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2023

Mobile money has experienced tremendous growth over the past two decades, cementing itself as a mainstream financial service. As it continues to grow, demonstrating incredible resilience over the pandemic and beyond, the industry is ...

Powering Mobility: The rise of digital transportation in Africa

This report outlines the landscape of the transport sector in African cities and the opportunity of digital innovation in transforming the sector.

Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Annual Report 2022