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Vodafone Sakhi: Voices of Impact from India

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 ...

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.

Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019 Methodology

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This document describes the analysis and modelling undertaken for The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019 as well as highlighting key areas of methodological change year-on-year.

Webinar on Demand: Understanding the Mobile Gender Gap in 2019

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In LMICs, women are still 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone and 23% less likely to use mobile internet. The GSMA's Connected Women team hosted a webinar to share the key findings and recommendations from their recent Mobile Gender Gap Report.

CEO of MTN Ghana discusses the importance of financial inclusion for women

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Selorm Adadevoh, CEO of MTN Ghana, spoke to the GSMA’s Connected Women team at MWC Barcelona 2019 about why financial inclusion for women is an important issue for him and his organisation. He discusses what he views to be the primary ...

CEO of Telenor Pakistan discusses the importance of digital and financial inclusion for women

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Irfan Khan, CEO of Telenor Pakistan, spoke to the GSMA’s Connected Women team at MWC Barcelona 2019 about why digital and financial inclusion for women is an important issue for him and his organisation. He discusses what he views to ...

MWC Barcelona 2019: Connected Women Seminar Recording

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Did you attend the Connected Women programme's seminar at MWC Barcelona 2019? The full seminar recording is now available to watch online. Catch up on what you missed or recap on the important discussions here.

CEO of Wave Money discusses the importance of financial inclusion for women

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Brad Jones, CEO of Wave Money, spoke to the GSMA’s Connected Women team about why financial inclusion for women is an important issue for him and his organisation. He discusses what he views to be the primary challenge to closing the ...

CMO of Telenor Pakistan explains why Telenor is committed to closing the mobile gender gap

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The GSMA’s Connected Women programme is very pleased to work with Telenor Pakistan in addressing the mobile gender gap in their customer base. Here we speak to Bilal Kazmi, Chief Marketing Officer of Telenor Pakistan, who explains why ...

Global CIO of Bharti Airtel addresses the importance of digital inclusion for women

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Harmeen Mehta, Global CIO and Head of Digital for Bharti Airtel explains why connecting the world is so important and why she values being part of the GSMA’s Connected Women initiative.

How MoMo Pay Empowers Female Merchants and Customers in Ghana

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In Ghana there is a gender gap in mobile money adoption and use which means that fewer women than men benefit from this potentially life-enhancing service. In order to help close this gender gap, MTN Ghana, one of the major mobile ...

Safaricom: Driving Digital Inclusion for Women in Kenya

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Charles Kare Wanjohi, Consumer Business Unit Director at Safaricom, explains the importance of digital inclusion for women in Kenya and shares insights into what he believes is the key to closing the mobile gender gap. You can also ...

The Executive Director of UN Women explains the importance of connecting women

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Wednesday 27 Feb 2019 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019

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This report reveals how the mobile gender gap is changing in low- and middle-income countries, ranks the factors preventing equal mobile ownership and mobile internet use, and outlines the opportunities that closing the mobile gender gap represents.

Digital Equity Policy Brief W20 Japan 2019

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Thursday 14 Feb 2019 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women |

The W20, under the Japanese Presidency, presents this policy brief to outline some of the challenges for women’s access and meaningful use of digital technologies, and to provide guidance for coordinated and effective action by the G20.

Transforming Women’s Lives with Mobile: UNGA Panel

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‘Transforming Women's Lives with Mobile': A Panel Discussion Hosted by the GSMA at UNGA 2018. A conversation with Yasmina McCarty, GSMA; Elisabeth Biering, Telenor; Sanda Ojiambo, Safaricom; and Anna Falth, UN Women, highlighting ...

The GSMA’s Gender Analysis and Identification Toolkit (GAIT)

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The GSMA's Gender Analysis and Identification Toolkit (GAIT) addresses an issue many mobile operators face: the absence of reliable gender-disaggregated data on mobile ownership and usage. This information gap is an important one to ...

Triggering mobile internet use in Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania

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Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest level of mobile broadband coverage in the world; only 63% of the region’s population lived within reach of a 3G network at the end of 2017. It also has the lowest level of mobile internet penetration ...

A toolkit for researching women’s internet access and use

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While an increasing number of people are now using the internet, the lack of comparable and accurate gender disaggregated data obscures the true extent of the differences in access to, and use of the internet between men and women. ...

A framework to understand women’s mobile-related safety concerns in low-and middle-income countries

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There is a paradoxical relationship between mobile technology and women’s safety; while access to a mobile can make a woman feel safer, mobiles can also be a conduit for threats and these can act as a barrier to access and usage. Based ...

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