Tower power saves lives
Saturday 26 May 2012 | Digital Utilities | Energy | Global | Research | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa | Zimbabwe |
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
Wednesday 15 Feb 2012 | Connected Society | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Global | Report | Resource | Rural network coverage |
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
Thursday 2 Feb 2012 | Digital Utilities | Energy | Global | Research | Resource |
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
Friday 1 Jul 2011 | Digital Utilities | Energy | India | Research | Resource | South Asia |
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
Friday 1 Jul 2011 | Digital Utilities | Energy | Global | Research | Resource |
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
Friday 1 Jul 2011 | Digital Utilities | Energy | Global | Research | Resource |
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
Friday 1 Jul 2011 | Digital Utilities | Energy | Global | Research | Resource |
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
Saturday 2 Jan 2010 | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Global | Research | Resource |
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
Sunday 1 Nov 2009 | Digital Utilities | Energy | Global | Research | Resource |
From the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report 2009 and written by David Taverner.