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Bharti Infratel’s White Paper – Green Networks: Transforming Telecommunications on Sustainable Energy Alternatives

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Monday 2 Apr 2012 | Connected Society | English | India | Report | Resource | Rural network coverage | South Asia |

Bharti Infratel’s pioneering GreenTowers P7 Initiative is a comprehensive energy-efficiency and alternate-energy program covering seven high impact initiatives, which are aimed at reducing the carbon footprint through lower and ...

Webinar: Highlights from GSMA mAgri events at Mobile World Congress 2012 (Feb 2012)

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Tuesday 27 Mar 2012 | AgriTech | Global | Resource | Video |

This video is a recording of a webinar organised by the GSMA mAgri team in March 2012 covering the highlights from two events held at Mobile World Congress 2012, the world’s largest event for the mobile industry. The first part of the ...

Procurement Model Analysis: CAPEX vs OPEX

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Friday 23 Mar 2012 | Connected Society | English | Global | Report | Resource | Rural network coverage |

This document presents a comparative analysis of an in house CAPEX based and outsourced OPEX based renewable energy model. The Green Power for Mobile procurement model analysis is based on current intelligence of the Indian telecom ...

Highlights video – “Mobile Agriculture: The Market Opportunity” panel at MWC (Feb 2012)

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Wednesday 7 Mar 2012 | AgriTech | Global | Resource | Video |

Mobile Agriculture was on the agenda for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2012, the world’s largest event for the mobile industry where over 67,000 visitors attended from 205 countries. On Tuesday 28th February around 150 people ...

Striving & Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid

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Monday 27 Feb 2012 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use | Research | Resource |

Full length research report surveying the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP), which are those living on under US$2 a day. Conducted in partnership with the Australian Agency for ...

GSMA mWomen Research Toolkit

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Monday 27 Feb 2012 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use | Resource | Toolkit |

"This toolkit contains all research tools used to create ‘Striving and Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Base of the Pyramid Women’ These include: Ethnography Observation Guide Focus Group Discussion ...

Portraits: A Glimpse into the Lives of Base of the Pyramid Women

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Monday 27 Feb 2012 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use | Research | Resource |

This research report is the first to survey the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP), which are those living on under US$2 a day. Conducted in partnership with the Australian Agency ...

Striving & Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid

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Monday 27 Feb 2012 | Connected Women | Country | English | Gender | Global | Language | Programme | Region | Report | Resource | Resource Type | Type |

Full length research report surveying the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP), which are those living on under US$2 a day. Conducted in partnership with the Australian Agency for ...

Impact Pathway for Mobile & Women

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Sunday 26 Feb 2012 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use | Research | Resource |

The Impact Pathway for Mobile and Women explores how women can be empowered through ownership and effective usage of mobile phones, and how access for women to life-enhancing mobile services can lead to economic advancement, and ...

Realising the mWomen Opportunity: A Framework for Designing the mWomen Business Case

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Sunday 26 Feb 2012 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use | Resource | Toolkit |

This framework is designed to help MNOs gather evidence that women are valuable mobile subscribers and highlight best practices and proposed approaches to targeting these women. Though regional and local contexts will factor heavily ...

The case for interoperability: Assessing the value that the interconnection of mobile money services would create for customers and operators

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Thursday 23 Feb 2012 | Case study | English | French | Global | Industry assets and standards | Interoperability | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish |

In this article, we ask whether there is a case for interconnecting mobile money services. To answer the question, we start by evaluating the extent to which customers are likely to value the ability to transact across ...

Energy + Mobile at Mobile World Congress 2012

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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 ...

Branchless and Mobile Banking Solutions for the Poor: A Survey of the Literature

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Thursday 2 Feb 2012 | Building the financial ecosystem | English | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource |

Reviews the emerging literature on the definitions and model taxonomies employed in mobile banking; the status and drivers of global adoption of these schemes; the take-up and usage patterns of customers and their socio-economic ...

CPM Vendor Directory

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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 ...

Green Power for Mobile Vendor Directory

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Monday 2 Jan 2012 | Connected Society | English | Global | Report | Resource | Rural network coverage |

Updated January 2012. The Green Power for Mobile programme has sought information on the capabilities, products and services of the vendor community within the industry in an attempt to evolve and regenerate the current vendor listing ...

Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) Ltd. – Malawi – Feasibility Study

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Sunday 1 Jan 2012 | Connected Society | English | Global | Report | Resource | Rural network coverage |

TNM is the second largest mobile operator in Malawi with a subscriber base of 1.6 million and a market share of over 42%.4 A pioneer in offering new services, TNM became the first mobile operator in Malawi to launch and offer 3G ...

GPM Bi-annual Report – December 2011

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Thursday 1 Dec 2011 | Connected Society | English | Global | Report | Resource | Rural network coverage |

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New Technologies in Cash Transfer Programming and Humanitarian Assistance

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Thursday 1 Dec 2011 | Archive | English | Global | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Research | Resource |

A study by Concern Worldwide, Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and the Partnership for Research in International Affairs and Development (PRIAD). The research was undertaken to explore (i) preconditions for the use of technological ...

Uninor: Empowering Women through an Innovative Distribution Model

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Wednesday 30 Nov 2011 | Connected Women | English | Gender | India | Mobile access and use | Research | Resource | South Asia |

Evaluation of Uninor's innovative pilot program, Citizen Centre Enterprises (CCEs), which delivers business service through a network of women entrepreneurs in partnership with non governmental organisation Hand in Hand. The study ...

Best Practice and Lessons Learned in Communication with Disaster Affected Communities: Haiti 2010

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Monday 7 Nov 2011 | Case study | Disaster response | English | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Preparedness | Resource |

By Imogen Wall with Yves Gerald Chéry. This paper attempts to capture some of the communication work implemented by a whole range of partners, and to identify what was delivered from the perspectives of those affected by these two ...