Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity
The report is the first global study of its kind. It endeavours to understand mobile usage by women subscribers in low and middle income countries and highlights the barriers facing women’s adoption of...
View ArticleCep Telefonları: Küresel bir Fırsat [Turkish translation of Women & Mobile: A...
Turkish translation of Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity report. The English version is availble here Download here
View ArticleUsing Mobile Money, Mobile Banking to Enhance Agriculture in Africa
By Judy Payne of USAID and Krish Kumar of ACDI/VOCA. Download here
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Regulating non-bank mobile money service providers
It is no longer the case that Kenya is the only market where mobile money is scaling fast. In two neighbouring countries, Uganda and Tanzania, mobile money is now reaching millions of customers. Two...
View ArticleWomen Entrepreneurs in Mobile Retail Channels
This study investigates the gender composition of the ‘mobile value chain’ (MVC), which is the retail networks of mobile network operators – in 11 different markets around the world. It examines the...
View ArticlePortraits: A Glimpse into the Lives of Base of the Pyramid Women
This research report is the first to survey the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP), which are those living on under US$2 a day. Conducted in...
View ArticleStriving & Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid
Full length research report surveying the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP), which are those living on under US$2 a day. Conducted in...
View ArticleMobile Value Added Services: A Business Growth Opportunity for Women...
This research studies the main business challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Nigeria and Egypt, identified existing and new mobile VAS that could be used to address these challenges,...
View ArticleIntroducing a new publication – Expanding the Ecosystem of Mobile Money:...
Interoperability in mobile money has been a topic of discussion within the industry for some time. In a new paper we look broadly at interoperability and outline some opportunities for better-connected...
View ArticleKenya’s new regulatory framework for e-money issuers
On 15 August the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury issued a Legal Notice[1] officially giving life to the National Payment Systems Regulations, 2014. Publication of the Legal Notice crowned...
View ArticleImproving energy and water access in emerging markets: What role does mobile...
CROSS-PUBLISHED BLOG: This blog was written by Janet Shulist from the Mobile Money for the Unbanked team in August 2014, highlighting the role that mobile money plays in improving access to basic...
View ArticleAssessing the opportunity for pay-as-you-go solar in Nigeria
At the beginning of 2015, the GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities programme (M4D Utilities), with the support of the UK Government, began working with Etisalat to explore the opportunity for Mobile...
View ArticleAssessing the opportunity for pay-as-you-go solar in Nigeria
This study, carried out by GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities and Etisalat, explores the opportunity for mobile network operators to partner with service providers in the deployment of Pay-as-you-go...
View ArticleAssessing the opportunity for mobile-enabled solutions to improve water...
This study is the second of a series of four reports and focuses on the potential for mobile-enabled water management solutions to improve utilities water services for piped connections in Nigeria’s...
View ArticleAssessing the opportunity for mobile-enabled solutions to improve water...
At the beginning of 2015, the GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities programme (M4D Utilities), with the support of the UK Government, began working with Etisalat to explore the opportunity for Mobile...
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Lessons learned from our grantees: PEG Ghana
Case Study 5: PEG Ghana – Licensing Solar-as-a-Service in a New Market In 2013, we launched the M4D Utilities Innovation Fund (formerly MECS) to test and scale the use of mobile to improve or increase...
View ArticleGSMA represented at the World Humanitarian Summit
There are over 125 million men, women and children in need of humanitarian assistance in 2016. The scale of suffering we are witnessing around the world today has raised fundamental questions about...
View ArticleLessons learned from our grantees: EcoEnergyFinance
Case Study 9: EcoEnergyFinance: Distribution of Solar Pay-as-you-go in Pakistan In 2013, we launched the M4D Utilities Innovation Fund (formerly MECS) to test and scale the use of mobile to improve or...
View ArticleWomen and Mobile Money – Insights from Kenya
Mobile money is widely cited as the game-changer for financial inclusion and the growth driver for the African mobile industry. However, recent studies have shown that across Africa women are...
View ArticleUniting sanitation and mobile services in Madagascar
This is a guest blog by Polly Gardiner, the COO of Loowatt Ltd., a GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities grantee based in the UK and Madagascar. Loowatt, has developed an innovative waterless toilet...
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