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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 ...

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services: Portfolio overview

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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.

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

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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.

Powering Mobility: The rise of digital transportation in Africa

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

Scaling Digital Innovation in Emerging Economies

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This report outlines scale in the context of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and looks back on the catalytic role that GSMA played in providing early-stage capital and support for 21 start-ups in Africa and Asia.

IoT for Development: Use cases delivering impact

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This report outlines the opportunities IoT solutions present for achieving development outcomes in LMICs.

Partnering With the Public Sector: A toolkit for start-ups in the utilities sectors

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For start-ups and SMEs, partnering with the public sector can be challenging. This new toolkit can help illustrate a pathway through the obstacles to innovative and successful public-private partnerships.

Water Utility Digitalisation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experiences from the Kenyan water sector

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This report aims to address this evidence gap by examining the digitalisation journeys of four Kenyan water utilities. Through detailed case studies and interviews with key players in the water sector, we identify important lessons and opportunities.

The Value of Pay-as-you-go Solar for Mobile Operators: Insights from customer journeys in Benin and Cote d’Ivoire

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While our previous research clearly demonstrated the benefits quantitatively, it did not shed light on how and why people changed their behaviour. In partnership with MTN in Benin and Orange in Côte d’Ivoire, we conducted a follow-up qualitative study.

Innovative Data for Urban Planning: The Opportunities and Challenges of Public-Private Data Partnerships

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This report identifies challenges and enablers for data-sharing public-private partnerships (PPPs) that relate to the partnership engagement model, data and technology, regulation and ethics frameworks and evaluation and sustainability.

Supporting Innovation in Digital Urban Services

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This report first describes the opportunity to leverage a powerful digital ecosystem for improving lives, and the role that the GSMA plays to catalyse these solutions through our GSMA Innovation Fund. It then discusses ...

Scaling Digital Solutions in the Water Sector – Lessons from CityTaps and Wonderkid

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In Sub-Saharan Africa, just under 25 per cent of urban households have access to piped water. Inequalities in service provision mean that many people in low-income areas rely on informal service providers, and often pay more ...

Building Inclusive and Sustainable Cities through Digital Solutions

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This session featured a range of different kinds of actors to discuss the opportunities and barriers for implementing digital solutions at scale. The session highlighted examples of how digital solutions are seeking to make energy, water, waste ...

Digital Utility Solutions for the Urban Poor

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Africa and Asia are urbanising at an unprecedentedly rapid rate accounting for 90 per cent of the world’s urban population growth. The impact of this will be greatest on the urban poor, as the municipal services that are already under pressure are ....

The Future of Pay-as-you-go Partnerships

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The mobile industry and pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar companies are natural allies. Recent GSMA research demonstrates that mobile operators gain significant commercial value through these partnerships while enabling them to become a central part of their ...

The transformational role of mobile for the water sector

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The Mobile for Development Utilities programme has been supporting innovation to improve utility services across Asia and Africa for the last seven years. We’d like to share with you some of the work, impact and achievements that our ...

The transformational role of mobile for the energy sector

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Are the mobile industry and pay-as-you-go solar companies obvious allies?

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The PAYG solar model has spread rapidly across developing countries as a means of delivering energy services. Our study has demonstrated that PAYG helps mobile operators achieve more value from subscribers that might have previously ...

Celebrating the success and evolution of digital utility services

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The Mobile for Development Utilities programme has been supporting innovation to improve utility services across Asia and Africa for the last seven years. We’d like to share with you the impact that the start-ups of the Mobile for ...

Électricité de Madagascar – Enabling Access to Electricity through Mobile-enabled Rural Mini-Grids

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In May 2018, the Mobile for Development (M4D) Utilities Programme awarded EDM a grant to test the commercial viability of providing electricity to off-grid villages in northern Madagascar. EDM constructed solar-hybrid mini-grids in ...

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