Access to accurate, reliable data is a prerequisite to effective decision-making for governments. Having worked closely with the regulatory bodies of emerging economies over the past two decades, GVG is aware of the importance of regulation when it comes to…
Africa is a continent rich in diversity and contrast. While this may be considered a strength on certain levels, it can also represent a challenge from a regulatory perspective, against the backdrop of the continent’s digital transformation. In February of…
What is mobile positioning data and what can it bring to a country? Big Data has been proven to help governments and businesses make effective decisions, so much so that it is now accepted as contributing substantially to the achievement…
Over the past two years, the African continent has shown great digital resilience by bringing some services online to comply with pandemic-related regulations. This increasing digitization of administrative, social, and economic services has in parallel required a step-up in digital…
Mobile penetration, and therefore the number of SIM cards, keeps on increasing in Africa. According to the GSMA, the numbers of unique mobile subscribers and of SIM connections were 495 and 930 million respectively in 2020, and are forecast to…
Covid-19 created a need for physical distancing, which fueled a surge in the demand for systems supporting remote living. As a result, only two months into the pandemic, digital transformation had already advanced by two years. The pandemic, therefore, caused…
This year, business is back to normal at the Mobile World Congress (MWC)! After being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event had taken place in a hybrid form the following year.…
An increasing number of Africans are enjoying access to formal financial services, thanks to the growing availability of digital services such as Mobile Money. According to the International Financial Corporation (IFC), there are now more digital financial services deployments in…
The increased use of online services, which the pandemic accentuated, begs the following question: How safe are the users’ data? Data privacy and security are legitimate concerns for the users and providers of digital services alike. Indeed, as these services…
2021 has been yet another eventful year for the digital sector as a whole. It was characterized by further expansion and innovation despite, but also as a result of, the pandemic-related challenges. At GVG, as digital technology experts, we are…
