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The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023: Virtual Launch

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Wednesday 31 May 2023 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource | Video |

On 31 May 2023 the GSMA Connected Women programme launched the Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023. If you missed the virtual launch event, catch up on the recording here. During the event we ...

Aamir Ibrahim, CEO, Jazz

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Wednesday 31 May 2023 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Pakistan | Research | Resource | South Asia | Video |

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

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Wednesday 31 May 2023 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | English | Gender | Kenya | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa | Video |

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

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Wednesday 31 May 2023 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource | Video |

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

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Wednesday 31 May 2023 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource |

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

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Tuesday 30 May 2023 | Assistive Tech | India | Innovation Fund | Video |

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

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Tuesday 30 May 2023 | Climate | ClimateTech | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Video |

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

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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

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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

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Wednesday 24 May 2023 | Case study | Innovation fund and grants | Middle East and North Africa | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Refugee crisis | Refugees and forced migrants | Resource |

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

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Wednesday 17 May 2023 | Case studies | Case study | Climate | Kenya | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

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

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Wednesday 10 May 2023 | Assistive Tech | Connected Society | Digital inclusion for persons with disability | English | India | Innovation Fund | Kenya | Pakistan | Report | Research | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa |

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

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Thursday 4 May 2023 | Central Insights Unit | Disaster response | Frontier Technology | Indonesia | Mobile for Development | Preparedness | Video |

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

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Wednesday 3 May 2023 | Climate | ClimateTech | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Innovation fund and grants | partnership-hub | Private-Public | Public-Private | Report | Resilient technology | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Water |

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

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Wednesday 26 Apr 2023 | Climate | climate resilience | ClimateTech | English | Report | Resilient technology | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa |

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

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Wednesday 26 Apr 2023 | Case study | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Private-MNO | Private-Public | Public-Private | Report | Sanitation | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Water |

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

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Tuesday 18 Apr 2023 | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile Money | Mobile money subject | Policy and regulation | Report | Resource | State of the industry and trends |

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

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Tuesday 18 Apr 2023 | Financial inclusion for women | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile internet for women | Mobile Money | Mobile money subject | Policy and regulation | Resource | Video |

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

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Thursday 13 Apr 2023 | Digital Utilities | English | Private-Public | Public-Private | Report | Sub-Saharan Africa | Transportation and mobility |

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

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Wednesday 12 Apr 2023 | Disaster response | Global | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Policy and regulation | Preparedness | Refugee crisis | Report | Resource |

In 2022, despite many countries in the world experiencing some respite from COVID-19, millions more people were pushed (and continue to be) into needing humanitarian assistance, primarily due to conflict, but also often compound risks ...