Enable and Social

Under Telenor Pakistan’s employee volunteerism program, Telenor Hum Qadam, Six Hundred and Ninety Three Telenor Pakistan employees contributed 5,000 hours of community service last year.

This month dtac launched “dtac Free Wifi,” the company’s pilot project to support the Thai government’s “ICT Free Wifi” and “One Tablet Per Child” projects, initiated by the Information and Communication Technology Ministry.

Grameenphone has joined the biggest ever education sector project in Bangladesh and brings Internet to secondary and higher level educational institutions across the country.

Farmers and customers of Telenor Pakistan and Grameenphone can get SMS alerts on a daily basis to the going rates for agricultural products and can quickly calculate where to get the best prices for their produce through the Agriculture Commodity Trade project (ACT).

30,000 tube wells in rural Bangladesh work to keep the water pure. Water well caretakers can now use SMS to send alerts when maintenance is needed.

Uninor and Hand in Hand Citizen has established 58 citizen information centres across the Indian state of Tamil Nadu bringing the life-transforming benefits of mobile phones to more women. At the same time women entrepreneurs get the opportunity to run the centres.

Grameenphone is collaborating with the Telemedicine Working Group of Bangladesh to bring dermatology care to rural communities.

Thai farmers can access useful information on agricultural developments by using the dtac service “*1677 Farmer Information Superhighway”.

Grameenphone partners with JAAGO Foundation to bring the classroom to remote areas of Bangladesh via the Internet

The 2008 disclosure of hazardous working conditions, pollution and underage labour at five tower-producing suppliers in Bangladesh, became a wakeup call for Telenor.

Do Good Deeds Every Day by dtac helps to organize the “Professional English Teachers for Thailand’s Future” Project

Telenor Foundation was founded by Telenor Serbia in March 2007. As the largest foreign investor in Serbia, the Telenor Group continues to invest in Serbia while helping the development of the country’s social potentials through the Telenor Foundation. The aim is to help resolve targeted social and educational problems that Serbian society faces.

Khuddar Pakistan aims to promote disabled Pakistani citizens who lead, inspire and motivate others.

Company volunteers from across the country come alive in times of need to provide support during natural disasters.

In collaboration with a local NGO, Uninor’s Bihar and Jharkhand circle set up an outbound call centre that creates sustainable job opportunities for young women from the Patna slums. Now the concept may expand to other circles.

Working together to bring the Internet to more people of India.

Telenor has partnered with the Ministry of Health and UNICEF to promote a more efficient and better-quality support to Roma families in Serbia.

HealthLine is a 24/7 medical call centre staffed by licensed physicians and available to all Grameenphone subscribers. The service is a lifeline for mobile users in remote areas.

New campaign launched to educate women on how mobile phones can improve quality of life

DiGi donates 30,000 free text messages each month to eHomemakers, an NGO that helps Malaysian women work from home.

Telenor Serbia supports an information center for people with disabilities by providing a free telephone line, Internet access and technical support.

In just over a year, through project “Povezivanje” initiated by Telenor Serbia, UNICEF and Serbian Ministry of Health, the quality of life and health of several thousand Roma people living in Serbia had been significantly improved.

In a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), Grameenphone uses SMS alerts to remind subscribers to vaccinate children for polio.

In November 2009, Telenor mobile operator Grameenphone partnered with Microsoft to increase digital literacy among the rural people in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has one of the highest percentages of blind people in relation to its population. There are approximately 750,000 adults and 40,000 children in Bangladesh who are blind due to cataract or other ocular diseases that could have easily been cured with timely and proper intervention.

In 2009, Telenor Pakistan partnered with Tameer Micro Finance Bank to introduce branchless banking for the first time in Pakistan.

With help from Kids Action for Kids, dtac will finance at least 50 more Operation Smile surgeries this year.

dtac partners 1414 hotline services for blind people now available free of chargewith Thailand Association of the Blind.

First-ever text messaging service for public health disease surveillance systems in Thailand

DiGi provides Broadband Internet access in rural underserved areas across Malaysia.

The Bangladeshi mobile operator Grameenphone has set up more than 500 Community Information Centers (CICs) across the country, offering low-rate, but high-speed voice, data and other communication services to previously unconnected people.

The Telenor Group has entered into an agreement with UNICEF Norway to combat child labour in Bangladesh through a combination of activities targeting working children, social workers and society at large.

100,000 children are exposed to violence or witness violence in Norway. This year the Stine Sofie Foundation will receive NOK 1.6 million from Telenor to create an interactive tool to help combat violence and sexual abuse of children.

At CellBazaar people post messages via their mobile phones, trading everything from agricultural products to motorcycles and used electronic equipment.

Telenor Pakistan offers social services portal to help customers easily obtain vital information.

102 events in 1000 schools and colleges were visited by 300 000 people in Bangladesh. This was Grameenphone’s contribution to let them explore the world of Internet.

Grameenphone’s study-line service gives valuable education information to people of low-income living in rural areas, where obtaining admission-related information is difficult and costly.

BillPay is a unique concept that enables Grameenphone customers to pay bills through mobile phone shops or directly from their mobile phones.

Telenor Serbia has launched its “Internet for all Project” with the aim of promoting and increasing the popularity of Internet use among its citizens.

Motherhood is celebrated as one of the most extraordinary times in a woman’s life. But the reality in Bangladesh is striking.

In 2007 DiGi, the Telenor mobile operator in Malaysia, and Citibank jointly launched DiGiREMIT, a mobile banking service that enables people to transfer money from Malaysia to Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, by SMS.

Grameenphone (GP) has joined an innovative new coalition to improve mother- infant health through a voice- and text messaging service. The service aims to reach 2 million pregnant women and new mothers by 2015.