Green Power for Mobile’s Top Ten Findings
The programme has recently concluded market research through indepth desk research and interviews with operators, green power vendors, green power systems integrators and telecommunications equipment...
View ArticleEvaluating Green Power Technologies
From the Green Power for Mobile Bi-Annual Report 2009 and written by David Taverner. Download here
View ArticleThe Implementation of Community Power: Technology Choices
This paper analyses the third party green ESCo model which is the most ambitious of all of the market scenarios. Download here
View ArticleCommunity 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...
View ArticleOff-Grid Handset Charging
By Michael Nique, from the Green Power for Mobile Bi-annual Report November 2010. New energy harvesting solutions are crucial in developing countries; most people living in urban areas have access to...
View ArticleOff-Grid Charging Solutions
From Green Power for Mobile Charging Choices 2011. Aside from electricity, there are two other types of technology used to charge mobile handsets in off-grid regions: solar and mechanical/kinetic....
View ArticleGreen Power for Mobile’s Interactive Replication Guide
This interactive guide is intended to assist Mobile Network Operators navigate through the decision making process of determining if a site is a suitable candidate for renewable energy deployment....
View ArticleTelecoms Renewable Energy Vendors & ESCOs Landscape in India
This document presents a summary of the current state of the Indian Mobile Telecom Market, an overview of the use of renewable energies for the mobile infrastructure and a listing of the main...
View ArticleGreen Power for Mobile Vendor Directory
Updated January 2012. The Green Power for Mobile programme has sought information on the capabilities, products and services of the vendor community within the industry in an attempt to evolve and...
View ArticleIntroducing a new guide – Mobile Money 101
Today the MMU team is releasing a guide to commercial best practice for mobile money services. Mobile money uses the mobile phone to access financial services such as payments, transfers, insurance,...
View ArticleD-tree International: Partnering for Impact in Mobile Health Innovation
Naomi didn’t think anything was wrong when she was visited by Grace, a community health worker in Gairo, a rural community in Tanzania. Her pregnancy had gone well and so far everything was normal, but...
View ArticleCreating impact for smallholder farmers through mobile technology in East Africa
This is a guest blog post written by Herbert Thuo from Virtual City. Virtual City is a solutions provider, specialising in the development and deployment of mobile based retail and financial solutions...
View ArticleWebinar – Weather Forecasting & Monitoring: Mobile Solutions for Climate...
In the developing world, the availability of localised, granular weather forecasts can provide immense value to the 2 billion smallholder farmers who depend on rain for their daily agriculture...
View ArticleIvorian agribusinesses are increasingly keen to digitise the agricultural...
In a previous blog, we found that last mile digitisation has been gaining traction in Uganda, with initiatives focusing on the onset of payments. Here, we are taking a closer look at the status of last...
View ArticleGreen Power for Mobile’s Top Ten Findings
The programme has recently concluded market research through indepth desk research and interviews with operators, green power vendors, green power systems integrators and telecommunications equipment...
View ArticleThe Implementation of Community Power: Technology Choices
This paper analyses the third party green ESCo model which is the most ambitious of all of the market scenarios. Download here The post The Implementation of Community Power: Technology Choices...
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...
View ArticleEducation for all during COVID-19: Scaling access and impact of EdTech
The proliferation of technology is challenging educational institutions to adapt their existing ways of teaching and learning to the changing world. Education is moving from a knowledge-transfer model...
View ArticleAfrica and Asia: Three frontier technology trends in the wake of COVID-19
COVID-19 has impacted the world in unprecedented ways, fast-tracking the use of digital tools and innovation to adapt. In a previous blog, we outlined six key technology trends driving social and...
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