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Tanzania: Driving social and economic value through mobile-sector tax reform 2021

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Tuesday 6 Apr 2021 |

Globally, more than 5 billion people are using mobile technology to access life-enhancing services such as financial services, e-government platforms and digital health services. Mobile is an important driver of economic growth across ...

Humanitarian cash and voucher assistance programmes in Ethiopia

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Tuesday 9 Mar 2021 |

This report, in partnership with the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network, explores the context and capability of the mobile money ecosystem in Ethiopia. With a focus on humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programming, ...

Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation: Annual Report

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Thursday 18 Feb 2021 |

This report documents the progress of the M4H programme and partners in 2020, highlighting the key trends impacting the humanitarian sector in this unprecedented year, and summarising the activities and outcomes of research, the M4H ...

Are the effects of mobile money regulation gender neutral?

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Monday 15 Feb 2021 |

This policy note discusses the main findings of new GSMA research on the relationship between mobile money regulation and usage. The analysis combines data from the Mobile Money Regulatory Index and the Global Findex Database 2017 and ...

Health Systems, Digital Health and COVID-19: Insights from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, Benin, Nigeria and Rwanda

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Tuesday 26 Jan 2021 |

This research unpacks the health systems and digital health solutions in six developing countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, Benin, Nigeria and Rwanda. This report expands on another GSMA report published in June 2020,

Reimagining identity ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa with mobile

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Monday 21 Dec 2020 |

Mobile is increasingly becoming a powerful tool and a way of life in emerging economies. At the end of 2020, half a billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa subscribed to mobile services. This accounts for over 45% of the population. Thus, ...

Scaling Digital Solutions in the Water Sector – Lessons from CityTaps and Wonderkid

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Thursday 3 Dec 2020 |

In Sub-Saharan Africa, just under 25 per cent of urban households have access to piped water. Inequalities in service provision mean that many people in low-income areas rely on informal service providers, and often pay more for water ...

The Mobile Disability Gap Report 2020

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Tuesday 1 Dec 2020 |

More than five billion people globally are mobile subscribers. As we move towards a more digital society, it is critical that digital technologies are inclusive of everyone, including persons with disabilities. However, research ...

Effective spectrum pricing in Africa – successful awards drive mobile connectivity

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Wednesday 4 Nov 2020 |

The GSMA’s latest spectrum pricing report takes a look at this important topic in Africa. Spectrum licensing and pricing, in particular, can play a crucial role in accelerating the adoption of mobile services and providing better ...

Artificial Intelligence and Start-Ups in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Progress, Promises and Perils

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Friday 30 Oct 2020 |

Around the world, artificial intelligence (AI) is automating functions and making new services possible with breakthroughs in low-cost computing power, cloud computing services, growth in big data and advancements in machine learning ...

Moderniser la Réglementation et la Régulation de la Qualité de Service en Afrique subsaharienne

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Thursday 1 Oct 2020 |

La réglementation de la Qualité de Service (QoS) est au coeur des efforts visant à atteindre l'objectif d’offrir des niveaux de qualité de service élevés. La majorité des pays en Afrique subsaharienne suivent une approche réglementaire ...

Modernising quality of service regulations in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Thursday 1 Oct 2020 |

Quality of service (QoS) regulation is at the heart of efforts to realise the goal of high service quality levels. In Sub-Saharan Africa, most countries follow a direct regulatory approach, which involves the regulator setting QoS ...

Videocast: The many paths to mobile money interoperability: Selecting the right model for your market

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Monday 10 Aug 2020 |

‘There are many paths to mobile money interoperability: Selecting the right model for your market.’

Why is there a need for the GSMA Mobile Money API Specification? A comparison with other industry standards

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Thursday 30 Jul 2020 |

There are a variety of approaches that mobile money providers could potentially use to deliver open APIs to their ecosystem partners, such as creating their own bespoke APIs or utilising an existing API standard aimed at Digital ...

Supporting the Growth of the Tech Start-Up Ecosystem in Uganda: A Policy Outlook

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Tuesday 14 Jul 2020 |

Mobile has superseded other communication methods to become the primary form of connectivity in Uganda. Across Uganda, start-ups are seizing the opportunity provided by mobile technology to offer fresh thinking and potential solutions ...

The causes and consequences of mobile money taxation: An examination of mobile money transaction taxes in sub-Saharan Africa

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Thursday 18 Jun 2020 |

Mobile money taxation is a controversial subject. On the one hand mobile money has been ...

Tracking the journey towards mobile money interoperability: Emerging evidence from six markets: Tanzania, Pakistan, Madagascar, Ghana, Jordan and Uganda

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Friday 12 Jun 2020 |

While the growth of mobile money interoperability indicates that the service is becoming increasingly relevant in both national and international payment ecosystems, the journey has been complex. There are different approaches to ...

MTN MoMo Pay Merchant Payments: Expanding Female Mobile Money Usage in Ghana

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Friday 29 May 2020 |

In Ghana, mobile money has opened access to financial services for millions of people for the first time, strengthening the payment ecosystem and deepening financial inclusion. To encourage the digitisation of merchant payments in ...

Électricité de Madagascar – Enabling Access to Electricity through Mobile-enabled Rural Mini-Grids

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Tuesday 19 May 2020 |

In May 2018, the Mobile for Development (M4D) Utilities Programme awarded EDM a grant to test the commercial viability of providing electricity to off-grid villages in northern Madagascar. EDM constructed solar-hybrid mini-grids in ...

Partnering During Crisis: The Shared Value of Partnerships between Mobile Network Operators and Humanitarian Organisations

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Tuesday 28 Apr 2020 |

The ubiquity and scale of mobile networks has made mobile an attractive delivery channel for many types of humanitarian assistance, and recent evidence shows that humanitarian stakeholders and the private sector are recognising the ...