In just a few weeks industry leaders, visionaries and innovators will gather at Mobile World Congress to explore the trends that will shape mobile in the years ahead, and to unveil the winners of the Global Mobile Awards, some of the most sought after awards of the global mobile industry.
This year, GSMA Connected Women is pleased to sponsor two awards, aimed at celebrating the initiatives that promote greater inclusion of women at all points in the mobile industry continuum from consumer to employee to leader.
- Best product/service for women in emerging markets – this award celebrates products, services, distribution models, devices, applications or other innovations and partnerships that increase mobile access and use by resource-poor women in low- and middle-income countries
- Connected Women: Leadership in industry – this special award has been introduced this year for the first time and recognizes and celebrates leadership in the establishment of initiatives to encourage and retain women and girls in the telecommunications industry or in the larger mobile entrepreneurial ecosystem
While the winners for both categories will be disclosed at Mobile World Congress, the shortlisted nominees have been announced.
2015 Shortlisted nominees
Best product or service for women in emerging markets:
- MAMA –  Healthy Moms and Babies
- Telenor Pakistan –  Easypaisa
- Uninor –  Project Sampark
- Vodafone Turkey – ‘Easy Rescue’
- Mobile Academy & Mobile Kunji –  Harnessing Mobile for Community Health Workers
Connected Women: Leadership in industry
- Ooredoo – Growing the female digital economy in Myanmar
- Telstra – Kate McKenzie, Chief Operations Officer for her industry leadership in driving initiatives to close the ICT skills gender gap and advancing the female economy
- Accenture – Accent on Technology Women
In the next few weeks we’ll be profiling their flagship initiatives and explore the challenges they have faced in ensuring the greater inclusion of women as consumer, employees, or leaders, the advice they would give to similar organisations and how are they attempting to reduce the gender gap in terms of ownership and usage of mobile as well as in terms of gender equality in the workforce. Stay tuned!