Blog – Mobile for Development

1 min read 2021-11-26 16:00:00

Making mobile internet more accessible for people with reading or writing difficulties

Across low- and middle- income countries (LMICs), 3.4 billion people are still not accessing mobile internet despite living within the footprint of a

1 min read 2021-11-26 16:00:00

This post is part of a two-part blog series on a programme for Scaling Innovation and Supporting Entrepreneurship across the Indo-Pacific during the

1 min read 2021-11-25 16:00:00

This post is part of a two-part blog series on a programme for Scaling Innovation and Supporting Entrepreneurship across the Indo-Pacific during the

1 min read 2021-11-10 23:13:28

When pandemic restrictions locked down Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea’s capital), many women absorbed additional unpaid care work, making it more

1 min read 2021-11-10 16:42:52

The number of people living in informal settlements is expected to reach three billion by 2030. At the same time, two billion people currently lack

1 min read 2021-11-09 19:51:22

This week, during the Science and Innovation day at COP26, the GSMA, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Swedish

1 min read 2021-11-08 23:21:26

Two years since COP25, during which the impacts of climate change have become ever more evident, the focus now shifts to Glasgow for COP26 and what

1 min read 2021-11-05 08:49:32

As COVID-19 has illustrated, in the context of a pandemic almost nothing is as important as timely, trustworthy, and actionable information. Due to

1 min read 2021-11-03 16:33:36

Utopia, an innovation group focused on emergent cities, and the GSMA Digital Utilities programme have teamed up to organise a virtual workshop where

1 min read 2021-11-03 01:40:45

This is the fourth blog in a series of blogs introducing the grantees and key partners supported by the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of

1 min read 2021-11-01 21:06:10

Innovation SunCulture Pay-As-You-Go solar irrigation systems Partners SunCulture, Energy Access Ventures, Microsoft, REEEP, MIT, PG Impact, GSMA,

1 min read 2021-11-01 20:37:52

Innovation Rainfall observation using Commercial Microwave Links (CMLs) Partners GSMA, Dialog Axiata Sri Lanka, MTN Nigeria, Digicel Papua New

1 min read 2021-10-27 16:10:00

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitisation of economies and societies around the world. Mobile internet adoption continued to increase in

1 min read 2021-10-19 15:56:43

In this blog, we present highlights of the State of Mobile Internet Connectivity in South Asia. Mobile internet connectivity has continued to grow in

1 min read 2021-10-14 20:07:51

More than half the world’s population are now using mobile internet. That’s just over 4 billion people connected, and with 94 per cent of the