The economy of a country and its people benefit when the national regulatory framework stimulates competition and investment, enabling a thriving mobile sector to contribute fully to social and economic development.
This category is designed to recognise governments around the world that have established sound regulatory policies, based on clear principles, that encourage private investment such as policies that support transparency, competition and regulatory independence.
The GSMA is committed to these principles in its global work with governments and regulators, in order to increase access and the use of mobile services. Each year during the industry's flagship event, the Mobile World Congress, the GSMA presents a government with its Government Leadership Award in recognition of that administration's world class leadership in telecommunications policy and regulation.
| 2005: | The Government of Brazil |
| 2006: | The Government of Pakistan |
| 2007: | The Government of India |
| 2008: | The Government of Egypt |
The Judges for this category will include top GSMA member executives and Board Members, and other world leading academics and industry stakeholders. Further details to be announced after the entry deadline.
The Judges will consider the performance of governments in a number of key areas that provide a positive environment for investment and growth and enable increased communications to the unconnected, including:
The 2009 award will be presented during the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona in February 2009. The GSMA will accept nominations from now until 28th November 2008.
In order to ensure a consistent input for judging, entries must be submitted using the Government Leadership entry form [Link to Government Leadership ENTRY FORM]. Entries not using the web based entry form will not be considered. All entries must be submitted by Friday 28th November 2008.
On the entry form, in addition to submitting contact and organisation information, you will be asked to answer the following questions (maximum text/character length for your answers also shown in brackets below):
Please note: Use URLs when they are specific/ relevant to the category and will help judges further understand your entry, but due to the number of entries received, judges will not have time to surf company websites looking for further information on the entered product/service or initiative.