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Snippets from the Energy + Mobile for Development Seminar
GSMA’s M4D brand new Mobile Enabled Community Services (MECS) programme did its first steps at MWC. The MECS seminar – at 9am on the first MWC day – kicked off the programme and despite the early hour, the room was full, with over 150 attendees repres...
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Service or Technology: which priority for energy service providers?
This post was written by Helene Smertnik, Market Intelligence Analyst for GSMA Mobile Enabled Community Services. As the Community Power from Mobile latest annual report on “Service over Technology: Defining the Role for Mobile Energy Access” has just ...
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Make Way for Mobile Enabled Community Services at MWC13
There are 1.4 billion people globally without access to energy and 783 million people without access to improved water resources. Access to affordable and reliable energy and clean water is vital for health and wellbeing and can also facilitate poverty reduc...
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A Look at M-KOPA: An interview with Nick Hughes
This interview follows the recent publication of the GSMA report “Sustainable Access to Energy and Water through M2M connectivity” and the M-KOPA article “Unlocking a New Market: Ultra-Low-Cost M2M Opportunities and Barriers to a New Mobile Frontier”. ...
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New GSMA Report on Sustainable Access to Energy & Water through M2M Connectivity
Over the past year, the GSMA Community Power from Mobile team has researched and documented the emergence of new ventures and academic projects leveraging GSM Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity for Energy and Water service delivery in emerging markets. T...
- Mobile Enabled Community Services
Mobile Ideas & Startup Incubation in Dakar
With approximately 34% of its population living on less than US$1.25/day, Senegal ranks 155 out of 187 countries in terms of poverty 1. Yet, with more than 44% of mobile market penetration (unique subscribers)2, Senegal is in the Top 10 of the most mature mob...
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Capturing mobile ubiquity: Our top 5 pictures from our travels in 2012
It’s hard to envision mobile ubiquity: how do you convert the growth projections of the mobile industry in emerging markets into something tangible? We spend quite a bit of time travelling to the edge of the mobile network to see first-hand what it means f...
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Post-Sandy Energy Blues: An Everyday Reality for Off-Grid Mobile Users in Emerging Markets
Although no longer a hurricane when it reached the northeast coast of the United States late last October, Superstorm Sandy still packed a huge wallop—causing flooding and evacuation of many New York and New Jersey neighbourhoods. CNN reported New York Mayor...
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Community Power from Mobile goes to West Africa
Early this month, energy was a hot topic in West Africa and CPM wanted to be a part of it! We hopped on planes from Nicaragua, London, India, Dubai and Kenya to meet in Accra, Ghana. Mary was the first to arrive and spent time at the first International Off...
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A Look at Azuri's Mobi Solar Mobile Phone Charging Unit in Kenya
The is a guest post by Simon Collings, Chief Operations Officer at GVEP International. In the remote communities around Ganze, near the Kenyan coast, charging a mobile phone is a major challenge. The nearest source of electricity may be 15-20 km away, abo...
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Solar power has a place in Mozambique: From the central and southern provinces
Islands of Connectivity From Muxuenge in the province of Sofala, the sandy road west heads 80 km to the town of Chitobe, soon leaving behind a power line and any evidence of easily accessible water supplies. It is a dedicated task to receive an SMS on you...
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The Other M2M Opportunity: Enhanced Utility Access in Emerging Markets
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology is primarily about enabling the transfer of data between machines. With the help of a module operating through a communications network, the data is collected, evaluated and if necessary, a response is triggered. Thus, M2M ...
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One mobile tower and lantern at a time
"The happiness on his face was the same as I had on the day that my father bought me the first television. This was in 1972. Seeing the boy and his reaction, I felt both happy and sad. Happy because you see that you’re contributing to bringing smiles to the ...
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Calling out in the dark
On July 31st India experienced a blackout of historic proportion. Over two days 700 million people, 9% of the world’s population, were left without power in is what is being called the worst blackout in human history. Across eastern and northern India, hos...
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Global LEAP and Using Mobile to Help Close the Energy Divide
The Community Power from Mobile (CPM) programme is a proud participant in the Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership (Global LEAP) – an initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, the World Bank, TERI, and the United Nations Foundation, in support of...
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Sustainable Energy for All: How mobile operators can support energy access
Over 1 billion people worldwide—or one in five—lack access to electricity, and 95% of these people live in Sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA), and launched ...
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The cost of being connected: A phone for every woman needs an affordable charging solution
This post originally appeared on the GSMA mWomen's blog. James Wolfensohn’s New York Times op-ed highlighted the role that mobile phones can have on fighting the inequalities women in the developing world face. But a phone is not enough: phone charging re...
- Green Power for Mobile
Researching Fuel Cell Systems for Base Stations
Last summer, our intern Mark Crouch from Imperial College researched fuel cell systems, including the types of technologies available, the prevalence of their use, advantages and disadvantages at mobile base stations as well as technical and financial drivers....
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Announcing our 3rd India Specific GPM Working Group
We are pleased to announce that following the success of our last India Specific GSMA GPM Working Group in October 2011; our 3rd Indian Specific GSMA Green Power for Mobile Working Group has been confirmed to take place on the 13th April 2012 at Hotel Le Merid...
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GPM & CPM Highlights from MWC 2012
What an incredible week in Barcelona – so much innovation presented, new contacts made and plans already in progress for next year! Green Power for Mobile and Community Power from Mobile certainly came away with many actions points and food for thought on ho...
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World Bank Energy Day
An ESCO, an academic, and a telecom representative walked into a bank… Bad jokes aside, last month the World Bank hosted its annual Energy Day and invited the GSMA to participate on a panel entitled “Electricity and Telecom Services: Realizing Synergies...
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Bharti Infratel's GreenTowers P7 Initiative
There are estimated 3.5 million base stations around world. Bharti Infratel is one of the largest telecom infrastructure providers, owning 35,000 of India’s some 400,000 towers and share-owners in Indus Towers, which adds a further 100,000. Together, they ...
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Top Up for Energy Access
Global mobile market penetration reached over 80% of the population at the end of 2011. Limited in the past to developed markets and urban zones, the growth and benefits of mobile telephony is now reaching rural regions in emerging markets. In Africa and the M...
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Connecting dollars and cents to watts
We sit at an interesting intersection between mobile giants and small enterprises trying to deliver energy access. Our role is to facilitate the mobile industry’s involvement in delivering energy access. In this role we spend a lot of time speaking to sma...
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Infrastructure in Malawi
Access to electricity and reliable transport remains a key challenge to economic growth; telecommunications presents strong growth opportunities The future economic growth of Malawi will predominantly be affected by the development of its key infrastructure...
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Green Power for Mobile and Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress is just weeks away and what a great agenda we have yet again this year! High profile key note speakers, insightful panel discussions, thousands of exhibitors and a world of innovation. 2012 also sees the year that the UN Secretary-Gene...
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Climate Change in India
There is possible no other country in the world that has a climate which is as varied as India’s. It ranges from very cold in the Himalayas, extreme heat in Rajasthan, wet in Cherrapunji, tropical in Kerala and lush with green in Punjab. Owing to this comple...
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Jatropha: From failed promise to bright future?
At the height of the 2008 oil crisis when emerging market governments were seeking paths to reducing their diesel dependence, Jatropha and biofuels emerged as promising solution. Riding the coat tails of initial successes in India, Jatropha Curcas, considered ...
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Welcome to the new Green Power for Mobile webpage
Welcome to the new Green Power for Mobile webpage. After months of hard work, we finally have a page which we hope will be educational and informative. We will be keeping this website live with up to date developments from the industry via our new blog, our re...
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