Ericsson and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) have joined forces to support girls' education in Myanmar.
Ooredoo has announced a number of major new initiatives for the GSMA Connected Women Programme.
The GSMA has announced a new initiative promoting the role of women in the mobile industry – particularly within emerging markets - as part of the Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action.
A new collaboration between Huawei, Zain South Sudan and UNESCO will provide Internet access to a number of schools in South Sudan powered via Zain base stations.
The first in a series of Mobile Health Clinics has been launched in Indonesia by Ooredoo and The Leo Messi Foundation.
The Filipino government is implementing a new Broadband Wireless System for Disaster Operations, provided by OKI and based on the group’s media server.
IBM has announced a collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health to provide citizens with improved access to 200 lifesaving drugs.
Ooredoo and the Leo Messi Foundation have announced a series of new initiatives that will expand their ongoing mobile health clinic programme in Indonesia to several other countries around the world.
Novartis is delivering two million treatments of its pediatric antimalarial to Zambia as part of its collaboration with Malaria No More’s Power of One campaign.
Orange is introducing a new mobile healthcare service in Cameroon with the aim of extending it to other sub-Saharan African countries on a common Orange Healthcare platform.
NEC Corporation has been selected to provide the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology with a wide-area disaster prevention system to detect volcanic and seismic activity by using seismic intensity meters and tide indicators, as well as offering disaster countermeasures.
Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency Badan SAR Nasional has selected solutions from Thuraya to improve its search and rescue efforts in the country.
SES SA, SpeedCast and AsiaSat have donated satellite and service capacity to enable NetHope, a consortium of 41 non-governmental organisations around the globe, to re-establish communication links to survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.
Intelsat has provided an update on its satellite capacity being used in a number of restoration initiatives in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.
Guatemalan operator Tigo has signed an agreement with international aid organisation Oxfam to continue to distribute aid using mobile money to people in the areas of the country that are the most affected by malnutrition.
Various telecommunications companies are spearheading relief efforts in the Philippines following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan.
ITU has dispatched emergency telecommunications equipment to areas severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan
A public-private partnership with Guinea’s national meteorological organization (Direction Nationale de la Meteorologique) and U.S.-based Earth Networks is paving the way for the first-ever operation of a comprehensive early warning system for monitoring and alerting to severe weather within a least developed country (LDC).
ZTE has been selected by U Mobile Sdn Bhd to provide a disaster recovery (DR) system to strengthen the resilience and robustness of Malaysia’s most dynamic and innovative 3G mobile network.
A diverse group of private and public sector players has come together to launch the Alliance for Affordable Internet, a coalition to lead policy and regulatory reform and spur action to drive down artificially high internet prices in developing countries.
The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) has received a $US1.4 million grant from Accenture to develop a pilot mobile health training program for community health workers in Kenya.
Ooredoo and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women have announced an innovative new partnership that will extend the benefits of mobile technology to underserved communities and support women’s entrepreneurship in Myanmar.
Healthcare firm Novartis has launched an anti-malaria campaign entitled The Power of One in partnership with Malaria No More.
The UN Broadband Commission has released two reports covering the growth of mobile broadband.
The leading Filipino operator Globe Telecom has partnered with the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) and Solar Energy Foundation to provide solar lamps to families in remote regions of the archipelago.
Utility and mobile governance services are an obvious way of utilising technology for the benefit of the public at large. Delivering public services to citizens can have a large-scale impact on people’s lives. With this in mind, Developing Telecoms spoke to OnMobile’s Vijay Sai about his firm’s latest mHealth initiative, focused on maternity care.
The Vodafone Foundation will deploy its portable mobile phone network in the largest refugee camp in South Sudan, allowing aid workers to undertake life-saving work, enabling 70,000 refugees to contact relatives for free and giving children access to life-changing education programmes...
Google’s head of Asia Pacific, Karim Temsamani, has claimed that the increased mobile internet usage driven by emerging market consumers is resulting in a “rebuilding of the internet”...
Ericsson has partnered with Chilean provider Entel to launch a new education initiative for students in rural areas of the Latin American country...
The Hershey Company is expanding its mobile phone program CocoaLink to Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), which is the world’s largest producer of cocoa...
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Thousands of people in some of Ethiopia’s most remote villages now have access to 3G connectivity...
The global business unit of Telefonica – Telefonica Digital – has acquired a controlling stake in a major Brazilian healthcare provider...
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