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Eletrobras partners with Telefonica Vivo to improve energy management in Brazil
This blog is also available in Portuguese. Tackling Brazil’s energy challenge through smart metering Brazil is a champion when it comes to electrification in the region, with almost 99% grid coverage...
View ArticleUsing Mobile-derived Big Data 4 Social Good – Reflections from the UN’s first...
Earlier this month, the GSMA attended the UN’s first World Data Forum in Cape Town. The 3-day event brought together more than 2000 experts from public and private institutions to discuss how data can...
View ArticleReflections on ID4Africa 2017: Pathways to Digital Identity
The GSMA Digital identity team recently participated in the third annual ID4Africa Forum 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia. More than 800 public and private sector delegates from over 50 nations and 22...
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World Toilet Day 2017: The growth in mobile services for sanitation
Sanitation remains ones of the most complex challenges facing emerging markets, and is compounded by urbanisation, but we see hope in the increased use of mobile technology to unlock and scale new...
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Powering Youth Employment through the Mobile Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Africa is the youngest continent in the world and this demographic dividend is growing at an unprecedented pace. This increasingly educated but inadequately skilled workforce poses a challenge for...
View ArticleKeeping the world connected: Development challenges in times of COVID-19
The role of mobile technology in these trying times has never been more pivotal. Mobile technology is serving as a connectivity tool and a comfort tool, bridging the physical communication gaps between...
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Digital health during COVID-19
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of World Health Day and this year’s timely theme is ‘Support Nurses and Midwives’. This theme is a reminder that healthcare workers are the foundation of all healthcare...
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Artificial Intelligence and Start-Ups in Low- and Middle-Income Countries:...
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...
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COVID-19 and the future of work in Africa’s mobile industry – what the...
In 2019, the GSMA conducted research on Powering Youth Employment through the Mobile Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2025. Since then, the world’s employment market has experienced unprecedented...
View ArticleYoung women working informally in the mobile industry in sub-Saharan Africa:...
The mobile industry creates close to a million informal income-generating opportunities for youth in SSA. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the youngest region in the world – over 43 per cent of the...
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