GSMA Mobile for Development

The Mobile Gender Gap: Asia

South Asia has the widest mobile gender gap of any region. Addressing this is important in order to deliver the significant benefits of mobile and the internet to women, their families, communities and the economy.

Webinar on Demand: Closing the Coverage Gap – How Innovation Can Drive Rural Connectivity

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In this webinar recording you will hear from the author of the recent Connected Society report, 'Closing the Coverage Gap - How Innovation Can Drive Rural Connectivity'. Learn about the potential innovations that could connect the unconnected.

Cybersecurity – A governance framework for mobile money providers

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Cybercrime has become one of the greatest challenges of the digital age. The ubiquity of technology has intensified the risk of cyberattacks, and the rise of innovative and disruptive technologies in the digital economy has heightened ...

Digital credit for mobile money providers: A guide to addressing the risks associated with digital credit services

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The extensive uptake of mobile money in recent years and the subsequent creation of transactional data has spurred access to short-term loans for individuals who had been previously excluded from formal credit markets. By offering ...

Capacity Building course: Digital identity for the underserved and the role of mobile

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Monday 9 Sep 2019 | Digital Identity | The Commonwealth Digital Identity Initiative |

This free one-day course highlights the role of mobile in digital identification systems and how digital identity can empower people to become digital citizens who can fully participate in today’s digital economy.

Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Podcast – Episode 2: The Ethics of Funding

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Tune in to hear the Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation programme discuss key issues with mobile network operators and humanitarian partners in this new podcast series. In Episode 2, Olly Parsons (Senior Market Engagement Manager at ...

Mobile for Development Utilities Perspective – Our quarterly insights – Issue 1

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We're pleased to announce the publication of our first issue of the quarterly Mobile for Development Utilities Perspective, which will bring together and highlight insights from the work we've done with grantees of the Mobile for ...

Vodafone Sakhi: Voices of Impact from India

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Mobile has the power to make women feel safer. In 2018, Vodafone Idea launched ‘Sakhi’ across India, an exclusive safety service for women, focused on giving them the confidence to live life fearlessly. Vodafone Sakhi’s features ...

GSMA end-user research: Our top 5 lessons about digital identity

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Friday 2 Aug 2019 | Digital Identity | Research | Resource |

This video highlights our top five lessons learned about digital identity from the GSMA Digital Identity Team's end-user research.

Webinar on Demand: Exploring the GSMA Coverage Maps Platform

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Reliable population mobile coverage data is the starting point for enabling the digital economy. Access to this data is vital in order to identify who is covered and who is not; plan and finance network ...

Closing the Coverage Gap: How Innovation Can Drive Rural Connectivity

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Millions of people still do not live within reach of a mobile broadband network. Delivering this connectivity is increasingly becoming an economic challenge, and innovation is needed to reduce the cost and difficulty of deployments.

The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2019

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Only 40% of the LMIC population are connected, compared to almost 75% of the population in high-income countries. More than half the world’s population are therefore still unable to realise the social and economic benefits that mobile internet can enable.

The Digital Lives of Refugees [Video]

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This video showcases key findings from our new research, which looks at the ways refugees in Bidi Bidi settlement (Uganda), Kiziba camp (Rwanda), and urban settings in Jordan are using mobile phones to help guide digital interventions ...

The Digital Lives of Refugees

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Our new research, produced with UNHCR, looks at the ways in which refugees are using mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organisations and mobile network operators. The research identifies key trends ...

Economic Identities for Small Business Owners: Insights from Nigeria

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Recent end-user research conducted by the GSMA Digital Identity programme highlighted that informal business owners in Nigeria – many of which are women – often struggle to demonstrate their personal and business ...

The Mobile Gender Gap: Africa

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Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the widest mobile gender gaps of any region. Addressing these gender gaps in Africa is important in order to deliver the significant benefits of mobile and the internet to women, their families, communities and the economy.

AgriTech Webinar: Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains

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Thursday 4 Jul 2019 | AgriTech |

In this webinar we talked through the recently launched GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains and provided some background and context as to how the Fund has been established.

Championing a unified digital Person-to-Government (P2G) payments strategy: Lessons from Orange P2G payments in Africa

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We explore five mobile money operations in West and Central Africa operated by Orange (Senegal, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and DRC) and propose measures to tackle a number of challenges.

Improving financial inclusion through data for smallholder farmers in Kenya

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This report looks at the rise of digital agriculture tools in Kenya and the use of digital farm and farmer data generated by these tools to facilitate financial inclusion.

What to expect at the Mobile Money Leadership Forum with Ruan Swanepoel

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Head of Mobile Money, Ruan Swanepoel, gives us a taste of what to expect at the 2019 Mobile Money Leadership Forum.

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