Strengthening Rural Livelihoods The impact of information and communication...
Edited by David J. Grimshaw and Shalini Kala. Through its collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in the Programme for Knowledge Networking in Rural Asia and the Pacific...
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How mobile is transforming small-holder farmers’ business models in Sri Lanka
Dambullah farmers’ market in central Sri Lanka is one of the busiest in the country, acting as a supply hub for various smaller satellite markets and those in the capital, Colombo, over 120km away....
View ArticleProgressive policies enable mobile money market in Sri Lanka
For the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), 2012 was the culmination of a 5-year effort to establish an enabling regulatory framework for mobile money that opened the market to both bank and non-bank...
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Dialog Sri Lanka – putting farmers at the core of service design
The GSMA mAgri program is currently supporting six Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), two in Sub-Saharan Africa and four in South Asia, in launching and scaling agricultural Value-added Services (Agri...
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A deep dive into the Sri Lankan start-up ecosystem
On 19 October, the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator team was invited to judge early-stage tech start-ups for Seedstars Colombo in Sri Lanka, the winner of which was invited to join the exclusive Seedstars...
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How context informs drivers and barriers for value chain digitisation
For those of you who have been following the mAgri programme’s journey over recent months, you will have seen that we have been conducting research across a number of countries (e.g. Uganda and Côte...
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Digital Identity for Smallholder Farmers: Insights from Sri Lanka
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, more than 3 billion people – almost half of the world’s population – live in rural areas, and roughly 2.5 billion people depend on...
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Improving Farmer Livelihoods: UK aid-funded agricultural content becomes...
Since April 2017, the GSMA mAgri programme has shifted its strategic direction. From supporting the launch and scale of agricultural value-added services (Agri VAS) delivering information directly to...
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Doc990’s Medicine to Your Doorstep feature brings time and cost savings for...
Dialog’s Doc990 digital Health service In January, the GSMA mHealth team will be publishing a case study on Doc990, a digital health service operated by Digital Health (Pvt) Ltd. (DHPL), a joint...
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Digital identity opportunities in Malawi, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Zambia
Over one billion people around the world, including more than 230 million women and girls in the Commonwealth, lack official proof of identity. Recognising that mobile technology and mobile network...
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Exploring new developments in the Sri Lankan tech ecosystem
It’s been almost two years since our last piece on the Sri Lankan tech ecosystem. Between 28 August –1 September 2019, Bilal Ali Qureshi from the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator team, visited Sri Lanka to...
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When ID works for women: initial findings from Sri Lanka
Guest blog written by Hélène Smertnik and Savita Bailur, Caribou Digital. First published here on 3 September 2019. As part of the Commonwealth Digital Identity Initiative, our [Caribou Digital]...
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Meet our portfolio start-ups: oDoc, Sri Lanka
According to the World Health Organization, there are fewer than 0.9 physicians per 1,000 people in Sri Lanka on average, making access to doctors and healthcare a serious issue. This ratio hides an...
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The weather data gap: How can mobile technology make smallholder farmers...
In the new GSMA AgriTech report, Mobile Technology for Climate Resilience: The role of mobile operators in bridging the data gap, we explore how mobile network operators (MNOs) can play a bigger role...
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Digital health during COVID-19
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of World Health Day and this year’s timely theme is ‘Support Nurses and Midwives’. This theme is a reminder that healthcare workers are the foundation of all healthcare...
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Balancing tradition and digitisation in the tea sector in Sri Lanka
This is the second blog in a series introducing the grantees and key partners supporting The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains. “I’ve heard of mobile money, but I’m...
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Thriving in crisis: how oDoc adapted during COVID-19
Start-ups are key for driving economic growth and employment, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where markets and industries are less mature. In OECD countries, start-ups employ...
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