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- Community Power from Mobile
Unlocking a New Market: Ultra-Low-Cost M2M Opportunities and Barriers to a New Mobile Frontier
By Nick Hughes, M-KOPA.
M-KOPA believes that M2M services for customers represent a new frontier. There are challenges but there are no impregnable barriers. Principal amongst the challenges is the need to simplify the core M2M technology and reduce its costs to allow it to be used in a wide range of applications. This case study explores M2M services and presents some ideas for consideration by the M2M industry.
- Community Power from Mobile
Sustainable Energy & Water Access through M2M Connectivity
This paper aims to shed light on the opportunities created by M2M solutions to reach and empower underserved populations in the developing world. The emergence of new business models leveraging GSM connectivity for remote operation and monitoring is already helping tens of thousands of people gain access to more affordable and sustainable basic life services.
- Green Power for Mobile
GPM Bi-annual Report - January 2013
- Green Power for Mobile
GPM Bi-annual Report - July 2012
- Community Power from Mobile
Tower power saves lives
From New Scientist. Published 26 May 2012. Staff at Morganster Hospital, which serves a remote community in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province, used to sleep fitfully. If the power failed and a back-up generator was offline – common problems in the impoverished nation – they would have to jump out of bed and drive for 26 kilometres to stash their stock of life-saving vaccines in a fridge in the provincial capital. But those days are over, thanks to a pilot project that is testing a simple idea floated in the pages of New Scientist.
- Green Power for Mobile
Energy + Mobile at Mobile World Congress 2012
Energy is the backbone of the mobile industry: without it the mobile network would not exist and we could not turn on our mobile phones. Nowhere is this truer than in emerging markets, where mobile operators have become proficient at operating in areas of unreliable and nonexistent grid electricity.
- Community Power from Mobile
CPM Vendor Directory
The CPM Vendor Directory builds on the past experience of the Green Power vendor guides and Charging Choices reports. The vendors within this catalogue have been ordered alphabetically and subsequently categorised at the back according to their specialist field. We hope that this catalogue will provide a snapshot of the current market and is organised in a clear and concise way.
- Community Power from Mobile
Harnessing The Full Potential of Mobile for Off-Grid Energy
The first 12 months of the Community Power from Mobile Programme
have highlighted both the opportunities and challenges in delivering
access to energy through mobile. Through sharing knowledge gained
from our work we hope to provide insights to our members and increase
the conversations and collaborations we are having with organisations
interested in how the advancement of the mobile sector can be best
leveraged to develop the off-grid energy market. - Community Power from Mobile
The Rockefeller Foundation’s SPEED Project in India
By Zia Khan and from the Green Power for Mobile Bi-annual Report July 2011. Smart Power for Environmentally and Economically Sound Development (SPEED) is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that was initiated in 2008-09 through a consortium of partners: Decentralised Energy Systems India Private Ltd (DESI Power – an India based rural electrification organization), Cleanstar Energy (an organisation involved in sustainable bio-fuels production and distribution) and the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Green Business Centre (CII-GBC).
- Community Power from Mobile
Community Power from Mobile - Charging Services
The opportunity now exists for mobile network operators to provide electricity beyond the base station and into local communities, a phenomenon which the GSMA Mobile for Development calls “Community Power from Mobile”.
- Community Power from Mobile
Community Power from Mobile: The Ecology Foundation
By Declan Murphy and from the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report July 2011. Affordable electric power is the underlying currency of all global society. Delivering electric power to off-grid rural communities is a challenge well under way in developing countries. Many approaches are being tried, but the most pragmatic is to use existing infrastructures to facilitate power generation in communities.
- Community Power from Mobile
Energize the Chain Initiative
By Dr. Harvey Rubin and Judah Levine, from the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report July 2011. People living in the rural regions of developing countries are often deprived of local healthcare facility access. With more than 2 million persons13 dying each year from the unavailability of vaccines, local solutions to ensure vaccines are available and efficient in rural and off-grid regions have to be developed.
- Green Power for Mobile
Green Power for Mobile Charging Choices 2011: Mobile Phone Charging Solutions in the Developing World
As the rate of mobile subscriptions surges in developing countries, mobile phones are becoming a vital tool for empowering remote communities. However, several barriers remain which inhibits full adoption in rural regions. Coupled with the economic factor linked to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of mobile handsets, the energy factor remains one of the top issues for mobile subscribers.
- Community Power from Mobile
Healthcare Opportunity from Community Power from Mobile
From Community Power for Mobile Charging Services. We have all heard statistics concerning vaccine preventable deaths – over two million each year – in developing countries. Although shortage of vaccines may be one key reason, another is that many vaccines must be kept at a prescribed temperature to maintain their potency.
- Community Power from Mobile
Kapil Sibal inaugurates Viom Networks’ Rural Service Centre
From the Green Power for Mobile Bi-annual Report July 2011.The Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal, today inaugurated the model Rural Service Centre (RSC) of Viom Networks, India’s leading independent telecom infrastructure company.
- Community Power from Mobile
Third Parties Will Implement Complex Community Power Applications
Published January 2010 by Sagar Gubbi. Increased market competition in high growth markets such as India has put tremendous pressure on the operating margins of mobile operators, which is driving increased popularity of the outsourced/managed services business model.
- Green Power for Mobile
Community Power: Using Mobile to Extend the Grid
A significant opportunity exists to provide environmentally sustainable energy to people in the developing world who live beyond the electricity grid. And it is the mobile telecoms industry–which has already brought phones beyond the fixed telecoms grid–which holds the key to this next infrastructure innovation.
- Community Power from Mobile
Evaluating Green Power Technologies
From the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report 2009 and written by David Taverner.
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