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Complementarity and commitment in good measure for successful partnerships: Lessons from Product Health
Wednesday 10 January, 2018 | News
This blog was written by Charu Chadha, former Senior Market Engagement Manager, Mobile for Development Utilities Country(s) of implementation: Tanzania, Kenya and Bangladesh Mobile channels: Machine to machine (M2M) connectivity and Mobile services In 2013, we launched the ...
Mobile Money: Bringing financial inclusion to life for women in Ghana
Thursday 4 January, 2018 | News
According to the Central Bank of Ghana, mobile money has experienced rapid growth since it was introduced in 2009, with registered accounts doubling to 40% in the year to 2016. However, there is still a gender gap in both mobile phone ownership of 16% and similarly mobile ...
Connected Women Webinar – Mapping the mobile money gender gap: insights from Cote d’Ivoire and Mali Navigation
Thursday 16 November, 2017 | Events
Ensuring that women are financially included via mobile money has a range of benefits, not only for women themselves, but for society as a whole, and it is also good for business. Our webinar will look at insights from our research in Cote d’Ivoire and Mali to better ...
Connected Women Webinar – Mapping the mobile money gender gap: insights from Cote d’Ivoire and Mali
Thursday 16 November, 2017 | Events
Ensuring that women are financially included via mobile money has a range of benefits, not only for women themselves, but for society as a whole, and it is also good for business. Our webinar will look at insights from our research in Cote d’Ivoire and Mali to better ...
GSMA PUBLISHES NEW REPORT ON MOBILE-ENABLED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GHANA
Monday 23 October, 2017 | News
GSMA, DFID, Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Ghanaian Government and UNDP to Work Together to Harness the Power of Mobile to Deliver Life-Enhancing Services and Support the SDGs in Ghana Accra, Ghana: At a high-level roundtable between the Government of Ghana and ...
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TO SURPASS HALF A BILLION MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS BY END OF DECADE, FINDS NEW GSMA STUDY
Tuesday 11 July, 2017 | News
Sub-Saharan’s Mobile Economy Valued at $110 Billion – 7.7 Per Cent of GDP Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: More than half a billion people across Sub-Saharan Africa will be subscribed to a mobile service by the end of a decade, according to a new GSMA study. The new report, ‘The ...
Transform Africa Summit 2017
Monday 12 June, 2017 | News
At the recent Transform Africa Summit 2017 in Kigali, Akinwale Goodluck, GSMA Head of Africa, participated in an ‘Internet for All’ panel session and Shola Sanni, Senior Policy Manager for Africa, led the discussion in the ‘Infrastructure and Connectivity’ breakout group. ...
Connecting the unconnected in rural Tanzania
Friday 26 May, 2017 | News
The first tri-party operator national roaming agreement in Sub-Saharan Africa is now live in Tanzania #SDG 1, 5, 9 & 17. Watch the video
GSMA Marketplace informational workshop
Friday 26 May, 2017 | Uncategorized
The GSMA coordinated an informational workshop with Jordan’s ICT association int@j on 4 April to present the GSMA Marketplace to the Jordanian and regional ICT companies. It was led by Gordon Readman who also signed a cooperation agreement with int@j CEO. Read more
Opportunities for digitising value chain payments in Malawi
Friday 26 May, 2017 | News
In a recent research trip to Malawi, our mAgri team spoke to a number of agribusinesses and smallholder farmers across the country to understand their Business to Person (B2P) interactions and payment needs. Read more
Opportunities for digitizing value chain payments in Malawi
Wednesday 24 May, 2017 | News
In a recent research trip to Malawi, our mAgri team spoke to a number of agribusinesses and smallholder farmers across the country to understand their Business to Person (B2P) interactions and payment needs. ...
Are African Governments meeting the digital needs of their citizens?
Tuesday 10 January, 2017 | News
With 3.5 billion people now using the internet to perform everyday tasks, the internet also opens up huge opportunities to improve the relationship between governments, citizens and businesses. But are African Governments doing enough to provide relevant and accessible ...
The transformational role of mobile for the utilities sector
Friday 14 October, 2016 | News
Imagine living in a country that doesn’t have universal access to the most basic of services. Maybe you are in a city, maybe you are off the grid – you don’t have reliable electricity, or clean drinking water, even safe use of a toilet. Our Mobile for Development ...
AFI member training on new frontiers in digital financial services
Friday 14 October, 2016 | News
The GSMA’s Brian Muthiora participated at a public sector/private sector dialogue session on cross border mobile money in Nairobi in September, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Kenya. Financial sector regulators from 16 countries, with varying degrees of mobile ...
12th Annual Telecoms World Middle East
Friday 14 October, 2016 | News
The 12th Annual Telecoms World Middle East show took place on the 27-28 September in Dubai. Jawad Abbassi, GSMA Head of MENA and Acting Head of Africa, attended the event and moderated four sessions, focused on the importance of harmonized adequate spectrum and regulatory ...
Digital economy workshops in Chad
Friday 14 October, 2016 | News
In September the GSMA Africa team travelled to Ndjamena, Chad to deliver two workshops on the digital economy and best practice for sustainable investments in the mobile sector. Local operators and Government stakeholders agreed that the interactive workshops provided good ...
5G spectrum recommendations at 1st ATU WRC19 preparatory meeting
Friday 14 October, 2016 | News
The GSMA’s Head of MENA, Jawad Abbassi, along with the Africa policy team attended the 1st African Telecommunications Union (ATU) preparatory meeting for WRC19 in September in Nairobi, Kenya. We made a series of recommendations which discourage premature exclusion of any ...
Addressing concerns about radio signals for Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC)
Friday 14 October, 2016 | News
The GSMA’s EMF expert Dr Jack Rowley recently hosted a ‘train-the-trainer’ Capacity Building workshop for staff of the NCC, the Nigerian telecoms sector regulator. The workshop addressed human exposure limits for radio signals, application of EMF risk communication ...
Africa Institute of Remittances (AIR) Consultative and Stock Taking Workshop
Tuesday 20 September, 2016 | News
The Mobile Money programme advocated for an enabling regulatory environment at this workshop on remittances in the Africa Union on 10 August. By engaging with the 26+ country representatives, we demonstrated how, by reducing remittance costs to 3 per cent, mobile money can ...
Southern African Development Community (SADC) Workshop
Tuesday 20 September, 2016 | News
The Mobile Money programme joined key industry and regulatory stakeholders at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Workshop on 15-16 August. By participating in the regulatory, technical, operational and commercial sessions, we were able to advance the debate on ...