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Creating a #BetterFuture: How the mobile industry is building better businesses
Saturday 5 May, 2018 | News
At Mobile World Congress 2018, mobile industry leaders came together to share our vision with the world. This video highlights the importance of sustainability and responsible leadership in successful business practices through the perspective of our leaders and UN partners. ...
International Girls in ICT Day 2018
Thursday 26 April, 2018 | News
International Girls in ICT Day is an ITU initiative aiming to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the growing field of ICTs, enabling both girls and technology companies to reap the benefits of greater female ...
Orange Digital Ventures launched a €50 million African corporate venture fund to stay at the helm of Africa’s mobile revolution
Wednesday 28 March, 2018 | News
Following our work on mobile operator-led corporate venture capital funds and the publication of our report, ‘Start-ups and Mobile in Emerging Markets: Insights from the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator, Issue #2’, Grégoire de Padirac, Investment Manager, Orange Digital Ventures ...
GSMA OPENS NEW REGIONAL OFFICE IN NAIROBI
Thursday 15 March, 2018 | News
15 March 2018, Nairobi: The GSMA today announced that it has opened new offices at the Delta Annexe, Westlands, Nairobi. Located in the heart of Nairobi’s commercial district, the offices will enable the GSMA to work even more closely with its members and other ...
Webinar – Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby: Best practices from one of the largest mHealth services in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wednesday 14 March, 2018 | Uncategorized
Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby (HPHB) is a mobile health text-messaging service available across four major mobile network operators (MNOs) in Tanzania – Airtel, Tigo, Vodacom and Zantel. The service delivers localised, timely and tailored nutrition and health content to ...
Supporting our members to rethink agricultural digitisation: Key takeaways from the mAgri Field Focus Session
Tuesday 20 February, 2018 | News
The GSMA mAgri team started 2018 with the ambitious mission of hosting our first Field Focus Session dedicated to digitising agricultural value chains. The weeklong event took place in Uganda where we brought together 10 mobile operators from across Africa and South Asia and ...
Bringing water to every urban home with the power of mobile – an update on our grantee, CityTaps
Wednesday 14 February, 2018 | News
In 2013, we launched the Mobile for Development (M4D) Utilities Innovation Fund to trial and scale the use of mobile to improve or increase access to energy, water and sanitation services. To date, we have awarded Seed and Market Validation grants to 34 organisations in 21 ...
Insights from TechPoint Build 2018 and Nigeria’s tech ecosystem
Tuesday 13 February, 2018 | News
On January 27, the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator team was invited to participate in TechPoint Build in Lagos, Nigeria. The event, organised by Techpoint.ng, convened start-ups, investors, tech hubs and mobile operators and other ecosystem players from across Nigeria. We took ...
Key stakeholders are coming together to digitise the last mile of agricultural value chains in Ghana
Monday 12 February, 2018 | News
As part of a series of three country-focused reports that highlight pathways to digitising the last mile of agricultural value chains, we previously shared findings from Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire. In this blog, drawing on findings from our third report, we take a closer look ...
Millicom and the GSMA: Driving digital inclusion in Rwanda through the Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit
Friday 9 February, 2018 | News
Read our latest guest blog post by Mohamed Dabbour, EVP Millicom Africa. Read more
Three takeaways from the Techfugees inaugural Global Summit
Wednesday 7 February, 2018 | News
The Disaster Response programme took part in the Techfugees Global Summit which brought the tech community together with refugees and humanitarian organizations to showcase how technology can improve the lives of displaced people worldwide. Read more
Eneza Education: making “education for all” a reality by working hand-in-hand with mobile operators
Friday 2 February, 2018 | News
Over the past two years, the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator programme has been closely following the developments of Nairobi-based EdTech start-up Eneza Education. After deep-diving on the synergies they drive with Safaricom in Kenya in our “Building synergies” report, we had a ...
Rethinking business: What greater smartphone uptake means for the future of mobile money
Monday 29 January, 2018 | News
In a 2016 blog, we argued that smartphones have the potential to drive innovation in product and user experience (UX) design, in addition to supporting increased competition in the mobile money industry. Last year, to understand how growth of smartphone customers will change ...
Can mobile operators help their customers understand the internet? Lessons from a pilot with Tigo Rwanda
Monday 22 January, 2018 | News
Across the world, the internet is increasingly central to people’s lives, one of the key ways in which people communicate, transact or find things out. Mobile now plays a central role in the economy: in 2016 it contributed US$3.22 billion to global GDP, representing 4.5% of ...
Blending tradition with digital finance innovation: a mobile group savings product in Chad – Part 1
Wednesday 17 January, 2018 | News
This is part 1 of a guest blog by Chloe Gueguen, former Market Insights Manager, GSMA Connected Women. Mobile money has shown its potential as a powerful catalyst for financial inclusion, yet, a gender gap persists. Part 1 of this blog looks at a case study from Chad that ...
Blending tradition with digital finance innovation: a mobile group savings product in Chad – Part 2
Wednesday 17 January, 2018 | News
his is part 2 of a guest blog by Chloe Gueguen, former Market Insights Manager, GSMA Connected Women. Mobile money has shown its potential as a powerful catalyst for financial inclusion, yet, a gender gap persists. Part 2 of this blog provides recommendations for operators ...
Mobisol: ‘Electrification is more than lights’ – An innovative approach ensuring smartphone affordability for rural African communities
Thursday 11 January, 2018 | News
This post was guest-authored by Henrik Axelsson Lilja, CEO, East Africa at Mobisol Group. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the GSMA.Read more
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 ...