The Sandbox

A perfect storm is brewing: high unemployment rates around the world, extreme poverty, particularly in emerging markets, and a lack of digital education and skills to fill thousands of vacant future-focused, digital jobs.

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine”. While a few years old, these comments by one leading analyst indicate the immense potential – and increasing need - for big data analytics to fuel positive societal change and development.

Vodafone is developing new technologies designed to enable the cost-effective deployment of base stations in currently unconnected areas of Africa and India.

No matter where you are in the world, people are online more than ever before, driven by greater connectivity, lower prices and the increasing availability of internet-enabled devices.

Elite athletes and their coaches attempting to run a marathon in less than two hours for the first time will be able to monitor running efficiency and body and environmental temperature in real time thanks to work undertaken by engineers from Vodafone’s Networks Centre of Excellence.

We’ve come a long way from the very first text message, sent by one Vodafone engineer to another to wish him a happy Christmas back in 1992.

Vodafone and Huawei have jointly completed the world’s first call using the Non-standalone (NSA) 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) standard and sub6 GHz spectrum.

Vodafone and Huawei have completed lab tests which indicate that traditional IP microwave links will be considered a viable technology for 5G backhaul.

For many years, women and girls have played an important role in science and technology. Without the work of tech pioneers like Hedy Lamarr and Barbara Liskov, we would not have Wi-Fi and email as we know it.

We are raising our children in a digital world – a world that can be difficult to comprehend and master for us parents.