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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 ...
Mobile money recommendations to central banks in response to COVID-19
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Monday 27 Apr 2020 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented challenges for the global economy. It has affected global health systems, affected peoples’ livelihoods and will leave long-lasting economic effects. Many countries have adopted ...
AgriTech in Nigeria: Investment opportunities and challenges
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Wednesday 22 Apr 2020 |
We share investment trends in Nigerian agritech, identifying possible opportunities for agritech companies to grow further and how investment could “crowd in” additional resources.
The GSMA Instant Payment Notification (IPN) Hub: Impact and insights from inception to industry transition
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Monday 20 Apr 2020 |
The IPN Hub has processed notifications for over 4.7 million unique payment transactions and there are indications that it has played a role in impacting approximately 230,000 households with improved access to energy services. In this ...
Ecosystem Accelerator Compass: Insights on Start-ups and Mobile in Emerging Markets, Issue 7
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Friday 17 Apr 2020 |
We’d like to present the newest issue in our updated quarterly publication — the Ecosystem Accelerator Compass. This publication helps our stakeholders navigate the world of start-ups and mobile technology in emerging markets. The ...
Reaching 50 Million Women with Mobile: A Practical Guide
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Monday 6 Apr 2020 |
This report is a practical guide for mobile operators seeking to reach women with mobile across low- and middle-income countries. For the last 10 years, our GSMA Connected Women programme has been dedicated to this challenge.
Mitigating common fraud risks: Best practices for the mobile money industry
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Friday 3 Apr 2020 |
This paper looks at fraud typologies that significantly impact mobile money users, such as identity theft, SIM swap and SMS fraud to understand some of the most common and impactful frauds within mobile money.
Demystifying regulatory concerns for the use of cloud services in mobile money
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Tuesday 31 Mar 2020 |
The objective of this report is to demystify the regulatory concerns regarding the use of cloud computing in the mobile money industry and to explain how restrictions associated with these concerns can be addressed without prohibiting the use of the cloud.
Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity
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Wednesday 11 Mar 2020 |
The ability to prove one’s identity is essential to securing both rights and access to a number of life-enhancing services including healthcare, voting, education, financial services, employment and social protections. As we continue ...
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020
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Wednesday 4 Mar 2020 |
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020 examines how the mobile gender gap is changing quickly in low- and middle-income countries, revealing how the main factors preventing women's equal mobile ownership and internet use are evolving over time.
Connected Society: An Overview for Policymakers
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Thursday 27 Feb 2020 |
The internet is connecting people to new opportunities and life enhancing services, driving economic growth and advancing progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. For most of the world’s population, mobile is the ...
Proportionate regulation in Uganda: A gateway for refugees accessing mobile services in their own name
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Thursday 27 Feb 2020 |
This case study explores how this policy change led to the activation of SIM-enabled services by MNOs and the impact this has had on the lives of refugees in Uganda.
A Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework for Humanitarian Innovation Programmes
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Thursday 13 Feb 2020 |
This report outlines the key elements of the MEL framework. It is unique in its approach and it is hoped that other organisations may benefit from using the thinking to adapt their own approach to generating evidence regarding humanitarian innovation.
Powering Youth Employment through the Mobile Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2025
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Thursday 30 Jan 2020 |
Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest growing youth population in the world. This increasingly educated but inadequately skilled workforce poses a challenge for economies that must not only generate more jobs, but also support youth in ...
Digitising payments in agricultural value chains: The revenue opportunity to 2025
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Thursday 23 Jan 2020 |
This report explores the potential revenue opportunity of digitising agricultural payments for mobile money providers.
Connecting the Frontier: Last-Mile Distribution in Bidi Bidi Settlement, Uganda
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Monday 13 Jan 2020 |
This case study explores the opportunities for mobile money-enabled CVA, some of the challenges that humanitarian organisations and MNOs have faced implementing mobile money in Uganda to date, and presents strategies being explored to overcome challenges.
Digital ECOWAS: Pathways to investment, innovation and inclusion
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Monday 16 Dec 2019 |
This study provides recommendations for a path forward. with regards to digital inclusion.
Accelerating Affordable Smartphone Ownership in Emerging Markets – RFI
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Thursday 21 Nov 2019 |
This RFI is issued as a joint effort by the participating parties in the working group, which has joined forces to address the need for an affordable smartphone and collect information from responding parties to decide on the way forward.
Harnessing the power of mobile money to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
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Thursday 17 Oct 2019 |
This report brings together existing evidence to explore the ways in which mobile money is contributing to the digitalisation of finance to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
