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Walmart Foundation trains 12,000 women in India
Bengaluru: Global retail giant’s Walmart Foundation trained nearly 12,000 women with life skills in 30 factories across Gujarat, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu with Swasti Health Resources Centre of the Catalyst Group, a company official said Tuesday.
“As we are committed to the people in our supply chain, our skill training is helping to empower women in India since we launched the ‘Women in Factories’ programme in 2012,” Walmart vice-president (global sourcing) Nancy Kielty told reporters here.
The programme, funded by the foundation, teaches selected women life skills in communication, hygiene, reproductive health, occupational health and safety, identifying personal strengths and gender sensitivity.
“We included India in the global programme, which is on track to meet our goal of training 60,000 women working in 150 factories in India, Bangladesh, China, El Salvador and Honduras by 2016,” Kielty said on the occasion.
With the help of non-government organisations (NGOs) like Swasti in India, the Foundation has trained about 40,000 female factory line workers in skills required in the workplace, at home and in their communities.
“We are also providing free a curriculum developed by Care NGO to factories interested in providing job readiness and life skill training to its women workers for greater impact on our global supply chain,” Kielty pointed out.
The novel programme, a part of the larger Walmart Women’s Economic Empowerment initiative, aims to train one million women, increase sourcing from women and improve the lives of undeserved women.
“The initiative has helped provide job training, market access and career opportunities to women the world over,” Kielty noted. Walmart and its Foundation contributed around $79 million in grants for the programmes to empower working women.
“Walmart’ Foundation’s commitment to economic empowerment of women through partnership is impressive and we appreciate its support to us in training women in India and helping them to make right choices to lead healthy lives,” Swasti director Chandra Shekhar Gowda said.
The $473-billion Walmart Stores helps people the world over save money and live better in retail stores, online, and through mobile devices.
Each week, about 250 million customers and members visit its 11,053 stores under 71 banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries.
Walmart’s Indian subsidiary operates 20 wholesale stores in nine states across the country and a B2B e-commerce platform in four stores.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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