Mobile for Development Resources

Tower power saves lives

From New Scientist. Published 26 May 2012. Staff at Morganster Hospital, which serves a remote community in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province, used to sleep fitfully. If the power failed and a back-up generator was offline – common ...

Energy + Mobile at Mobile World Congress 2012

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Energy is the backbone of the mobile industry: without it the mobile network would not exist and we could not turn on our mobile phones. Nowhere is this truer than in emerging markets, where mobile operators have become proficient at ...

CPM Vendor Directory

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The CPM Vendor Directory builds on the past experience of the Green Power vendor guides and Charging Choices reports. The vendors within this catalogue have been ordered alphabetically and subsequently categorised at the back according ...

The Rockefeller Foundation’s SPEED Project in India

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By Zia Khan and from the Green Power for Mobile Bi-annual Report July 2011. Smart Power for Environmentally and Economically Sound Development (SPEED) is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that was initiated in ...

Community Power from Mobile – Charging Services

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The opportunity now exists for mobile network operators to provide electricity beyond the base station and into local communities, a phenomenon which the GSMA Mobile for Development calls “Community Power from Mobile”.

Community Power from Mobile: The Ecology Foundation

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By Declan Murphy and from the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report July 2011. Affordable electric power is the underlying currency of all global society. Delivering electric power to off-grid rural communities is a ...

Energize the Chain Initiative

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By Dr. Harvey Rubin and Judah Levine, from the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report July 2011. People living in the rural regions of developing countries are often deprived of local healthcare facility access. With more ...

Third Parties Will Implement Complex Community Power Applications

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Published January 2010 by Sagar Gubbi. Increased market competition in high growth markets such as India has put tremendous pressure on the operating margins of mobile operators, which is driving increased popularity of the ...

Evaluating Green Power Technologies

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From the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report 2009 and written by David Taverner.

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