GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities
Mobile for Development Utilities Mission Opportunity To unlock commercially sustainable In emerging markets, close to one billion people live without business models that leverage mobile electricity, 2.1 billion people lack access to safely managed water to deliver affordable and improved and 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation services, energy, water and sanitation services in emerging markets. This initiative is currently funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Scaling Off-Grid Energy Grand Challenge for Development and supported by the GSMA and its members. …..while mobile connectivity and handsets are increasingly ubiquitous.
M4D Utilities Activities Innovation Fund Knowledge Sharing Water & Sanitation Grants 50+ projects supported since 14 Water Grantees Newly 2013 across Water, Sanitation 6 Sanitation Grantees released and Energy, spanning 3 continents Selected grantees receive: Funding : £150,000 - £300,000 www.gsma.com/m4duinsights Mobile-focused mentoring Mobile Operator Partnership support
How Digital Solutions Support Water and Sanitation Pay-as-you-go, or prepaid services = affordability Mobile for customers; efficient revenue collection for Money service providers Water Point/System Monitoring = visibility and Machine to accountability for service reliability, quality Machine/IoT Digitisation of operations = optimisation of GSM Services processes like meter reading, customer (Voice SMS Data) communication Mapping and connecting the sanitation value chain = efficiency and transparency across stakeholders 4 CONFIDENTIAL
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