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National Broadband Plan for Nigeria
Wednesday 15 January, 2020 | News
The Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Akinwale Goodluck, was recently selected to be a member of the Presidential Committe on the Development of the 2020-2025 National Broadband Plan for Nigeria as the previous one ( 2013-2018) came to the end of its lifetime over two years ago. ...
Child Online Protection: Consumer Awareness on Cybercrime
Monday 28 October, 2019 | News
The Digital Bridge Institute organized a 3-day event themed around Child Online Protection, from the 15 – 17 October 2019, in Abuja, Nigeria. The workshop included presentations from the Internet Governance Forum, Cece Yara Foundation, and the Office of the National ...
Validation workshop on the National Strategy Plan in Kinshasa (DRC)
Wednesday 23 October, 2019 | News
On 3 September 2019, H.E. Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, opened the validation workshop of the new National Digital Roadmap (Plan National du Numérique). This workshop which took place in Kinshasa from 3 to 5 ...
ITU Workshop: Bridging the Digital Divide
Sunday 20 October, 2019 | News
This workshop which took place on the 14 – 16 October in Brazzzaville was organized by the ITU with the collaboration of the Congo ICT Ministry focusing on the : ‘’Bridging the digital innovation divide”. The GSMA contributed to the interactive discussions on digital ...
Huawei Global MBB Forum
Wednesday 16 October, 2019 | News
The 10th Global Mobile Broadband Forum hosted by Huawei, with support from industry partners GSMA and GTI, was held on October 15 – 16 in Zurich, Switzerland. Akinwale Goodluck, Head of Sub- Saharan Africa was in attendance and spoke at the event. The event attracted ...
United Nations Economic Commission for Central Africa (UNECA) Annual Meeting
Monday 16 September, 2019 | News
The Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICE’s) 35th session took place in Malabo from 23 to 27 September 2019 at the invitation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Central Africa office in Yaoundé, Cameroon with the theme ...
4th Africa Preparatory Meeting (APM) for WRC19
Thursday 5 September, 2019 | News
This was held from 26-30 August 2019 in East London, South Africa with the main purpose being to advance the industry position on relevant agenda items such as core spectrum bands. The meeting was attended by 310 participants from: Thirty-Five (35) African countries: Benin, ...
Policy leaders Forum at Mobile 360 Series – Africa 2019
Thursday 25 July, 2019 | News
M360 Africa hosted a high-level invitation-only Policy Leaders Forum with curated sessions and unique, invitation-only activities for policymakers during the conference. The Forum featured sessions on the GSMA’s Capacity Building Programme and Mobile Industry Taxation. The ...
Airtel and MTN Launch GSMA ‘We Care’ Initiative Promoting Digital Inclusion in Rwanda
Thursday 25 July, 2019 | News
Rwanda’s mobile industry joined forces with the GSMA on 16 July, 2019 to drive mobile internet adoption and increase digital literacy in the country. At the ‘Mobile 360 Africa’ event in Kigali, the local operators, Airtel and MTN, commenced a programme of activity aimed at ...
CEO ROUNDTABLE AT THE MOBILE 360 SERIES – AFRICA
Tuesday 23 July, 2019 | News
Operators from Millicom Africa, Safaricom PLC, Orange, Telkom Kenya, Airtel – Tigo Rwanda, MTN RwandaCell and MTN Group were present. The roundtable discussion was focused on 5G in Africa with a deep dive on operator digital services strategy from a global perspective. ...
CRASA Electronic Communication Committee Meeting
Wednesday 10 July, 2019 | News
In line with our new strategy of engaging with the Communications Regulators’ Association of Southern Africa (CRASA), the GSMA attended the first meeting of the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) for 2019/20, which was held from 3-5 July 2019 at the Instituto Angolano ...
The 4th Annual Sub Sahara Spectrum Management Conference
Wednesday 5 June, 2019 | News
The 4th Annual Sub-Sahara Spectrum Management Conference was held in Gaborone, Botswana from 27-28 May 2019. The GSMA was part of 254 delegates in attendance from 49 different countries. The GSMA utilized the speaking opportunities to advance industry positions and share ...
World Bank Regulators Roundtable at the Transform Africa Summit, Kigali
Monday 20 May, 2019 | News
The GSMA convened a Roundtable on 16 May to discuss various options for greater regional integration and harmonisation of regulation, policy and best practise to support the broadband objectives and infrastructure to help meet the goal of affordable internet access for all. ...
13th SteerCom of Smart Africa at the Transform Africa Summit, Kigali
Monday 20 May, 2019 | News
This took place on 13 May and there was very good attendance by Ministers from member states and private sector members including Orange, MTN Group, Liquid/Econet, Ericsson, Huawei, Inmarsat, Tata, GVG among others. The meeting was co-chaired by Her Excellency Amani ...
Mobile Industry in Côte d’ivoire joins forces with GSMA to tackle handset theft and counterfeit devices
Tuesday 16 April, 2019 | News
16 April 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire: The GSMA announced today that Côte d’Ivoire’s mobile industry has come together to support a major new initiative to guard against the use of stolen or counterfeit devices. The scheme forms part of the launch of the GSMA’s ...
GSMA facilitates at CRASA Pre-AGM Seminar on Smart Society
Saturday 30 March, 2019 | News
The Communications Regulator’s Association of Southern Africa ( CRASA) and the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority [TCRA] hosted a workshop on “Smart Societies” at the Bank of Tanzania Conference Centre, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 25 – 27 March 2019. The ...
The GSMA Sub Saharan Africa Identity Summit
Saturday 30 March, 2019 | News
The GSMA Sub Saharan Africa Identity Summit was held on 28-29 March in Johannesburg and was hosted by MTN Group Digital Services CEO at the MTN Innovation Centre. C-Level MNO executives from MTN, Vodacom, Orange, Telkom SA, Cell-C and Safaricom came together bringing 30 ...
National Dialogue for Digital Transformation in Uganda
Friday 29 March, 2019 | News
Since June 2018, the GSMA has been working with partners Sida, DFID and UNDP to build a collective vision for the role of mobile in Uganda’s digital future, convening a multi-institutional Technical Working Group to input into a report highlighting opportunities and a draft ...
The impact of mobile money on monetary and financial stability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Friday 29 March, 2019 | Resources
The extent to which mobile money impacts a country’s macroeconomic and financial sector development has not been fully examined. To address this evidence gap, and provide responses to those concerns, GSMA Mobile Money and GSMA Intelligence have undertaken a study to assess ...
Uganda: Driving inclusive socio-economic progress through mobile-enabled digital transformation
Thursday 28 March, 2019 | Resources
As Uganda advances its efforts focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Uganda Vision 2040, harnessing the power of mobile technology will be critical to influencing progress across all development goals. Mobile is the first among all information and ...