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

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Wednesday 12 Oct 2022 | Climate | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Innovation fund and grants | Private-Public | Sanitation | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa | Toolkit | Water |

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.

M4H Innovation Fund lessons and outcomes: Welthungerhilfe’s Child Growth Monitor

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Monday 10 Oct 2022 | Case study | Health | India | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Mobile health |

The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in using mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The second round of ...

Mobile Money agents sustainability in a digital era: Findings from Mozambique

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Friday 7 Oct 2022 | Building the financial ecosystem | Mobile for Development | Mobile Money | Mobile money subject | Mozambique | Research | Resource | State of the industry and trends |

Agent are the mobile money industry’s backbone, digitising about USD 700 million per day in 2021. Mobile money agents play an essential role in enabling unbanked and underbanked populations access to financial services, thanks to their ...

M4H Innovation Fund lessons and outcomes: International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) CuéntaNos.org

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Tuesday 27 Sep 2022 | Case study | Disaster response | El Salvador | Guatemala | Honduras | Innovation Fund | Innovation fund and grants | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Resilient technology |

The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The second round of the Fund focused on providing support to test new ...

Methodology: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022

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Tuesday 27 Sep 2022 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource |

This document details the methodology behind The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022. This report is part of an annual series analysing the gender gap in mobile ownership and mobile internet use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). ...

Data-driven advisory services for climate-smart smallholder agriculture

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Thursday 22 Sep 2022 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Climate | climate resilience | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Global | improve | Improve Climate Resilience | India | Kenya | Nigeria | Research | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

In order to achieve sustainable development in the face of the intensifying impacts of climate change, agricultural production systems need to simultaneously achieve three goals: Increase agricultural productivity and ...

Policy considerations to accelerate digital inclusion for women in low- and middle-income countries

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Tuesday 20 Sep 2022 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | English | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Report | Resource |

This report provides an overview of the various challenges that need to be tackled to advance digital inclusion for women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and provides granular recommendations for policymakers to address the ...

The state of mobile-enabled climate technology in Indonesia

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Friday 29 Jul 2022 | Climate | East Asia and Pacific | Ecosystem Accelerator | Indonesia | Mobile Innovation Hub | Resilient technology | Video |

With funding from the German Ministry for Economic cooperation and development, the GSMA has conducted an in-depth study exploring the opportunities for mobile-enabled solutions to assist Indonesia’s climate mitigation and adaptation efforts.

How can mobile operators and plastics organisations partner to address the plastic waste problem?

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Monday 5 Sep 2022 | Climate | ClimateTech | English | Global | Mobile for Development | Resource | Video |

This webinar by the GSMA ClimateTech programme features highlights from the report titled ‘Catalysing Partnerships in Plastics’ and discusses the importance of strengthening partnerships for circular economy solutions with key industry stakeholders.

Assessment of smart farming solutions for smallholders in low and middle-income countries

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Monday 22 Aug 2022 | AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | English | Improve Climate Resilience | Innovation Fund | Report | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

Smart farming solutions can play an important role in helping smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) increase their productivity and resilience to disaster by opening access to assets and mechanisation, ...

‘Building Climate Resilient Digital Nations’ session at GSMA Mobile 360 APAC

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Thursday 18 Aug 2022 | Climate | ClimateTech | East Asia and Pacific | Ecosystem Accelerator | Indonesia | Mobile access and use | Mobile Innovation Hub | Policy and regulation | Resilient technology | Resource | Video |

On 2 August 2022 at the Mobile 360 Asia Pacific event held in Singapore, the GSMA

Disease Surveillance and Monitoring in the Philippines: Building resilience through mobile and digital technologies

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Wednesday 10 Aug 2022 | Asia and Australia | Central Insights Unit | English | Frontier Technology | Health | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Philippines | Report | Research | Resource |

This report evaluates the gaps in disease surveillance and monitoring systems in the Philippines and identifies examples and best practices of digital interventions leveraged in both low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and more advanced economies.

Mobile360 APAC 2022 session: Southeast Asia – Mobile and frontier tech for Sustainable Development Goals

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Wednesday 10 Aug 2022 | Asia and Australia | Central Insights Unit | East Asia and Pacific | English | Frontier Technology | Mobile for Development | Resource | Video |

This Mobile360 APAC session titled ‘Southeast Asia - Mobile and Frontier Tech for the SDGs‘ explores strategies to bridge the 'usage gap' and achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by leveraging mobile and frontier technologies.

Mobile Money Certification: Enabling safer and scalable digital finance ecosystem

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Friday 5 Aug 2022 | Building the financial ecosystem | Global and regional studies | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Video |

In this video, we hear directly from MTN Group, GSMA and Alliances Management how the GSMA Mobile Money Certification enables a safer, collaborative and scalable digital finance ecosystem.

Mobile Money Certification: A differentiation strategy in compliance implemented by leading fintechs

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Friday 5 Aug 2022 | Global | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Video |

In this video, we hear directly from MTN about how the leading fintech uses the GSMA Mobile Money Certification as a differentiation strategy in risk and compliance by going above and beyond the national regulatory requirements.

Mobile Money Certification’s value proposition for the industry

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Friday 5 Aug 2022 | Global | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Video |

Hear from MTN and the GSMA’s Ashley Olson Onyango about how the GSMA Mobile Money Certification enables a safer, collaborative and scalable digital finance ecosystem.

M4H Innovation Fund lessons and outcomes: Naya Jeevan’s Mohinja Sohna Thar project

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Thursday 28 Jul 2022 | Case study | Digital literacy | Disaster response | Education | Innovation Fund | Mobile for Development | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Pakistan | Resilient technology | South Asia |

The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The second round of the Fund focused on providing support to: test new ...

The GSMA AgriTech Toolkit for the digitisation of agricultural value chains

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Wednesday 27 Jul 2022 | AgriTech | Building the financial ecosystem | East Asia and Pacific | English | Global | Industry assets and standards | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Report | Resource | State of the industry and trends | Sub-Saharan Africa | Toolkit |

The Toolkit for the Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains is a collection of resources that illustrate how digital technologies can address pain points for farmers and value chain actors, such as agribusinesses and cooperatives, in ...

Inclusive climate resilience strategies in the US

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Tuesday 19 Jul 2022 | Central Insights Unit | Climate | English | Mobile for Development | Report | Resource | USA |

This research report therefore evaluates the gaps in Early Warning Systems for climate-related hazards in the US, and identifies examples of mobile and digital interventions used at the community level in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

How to make internet-enabled handsets more affordable in low- and middle-income countries

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Wednesday 6 Jul 2022 | Connected Society | English | Mobile access and use | Presentation | Report | Research | Resource | Webinar |

In this virtual session, we explored ways mobile operators, policymakers and all stakeholders working on digital inclusion in low- and middle-income countries ...