Life and Work in the Digital Era
On the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the GTWN, in 1992, we are taking the opportunity to reflect on where we started, how far we have come, and the journey ahead. We could not have imagined the scope of the truly amazing transformation that telecommunications and digital technologies in…
Janice Hughes CBE The communications industry has changed at an accelerating pace over the past three decades in terms of both technology and devices. The underlying culture of the sector has changed even more. Less often spoken about but equally important, women have played a fundamental and increasing role in…
Ana Tavares Lattibeaudiere, Executive Director, GlobalPlatform The birth of IoT The Internet of Things (IoT) has grown from a concept to become a catalyst for enterprise and industrial transformation. From our homes to our cars and our cities, IoT connectivity is transforming the very fabric of the world around us…
Nicki Palmer, Verizon Tech Ambassador 5G is here and everything seems to be moving faster and with more intensity than ever. From the speed of networks, to deployment timelines, to the fight for talent. It is worth taking a step back to understand the scope of the promise of 5G…
Corinne Versini, Founder and CEO GenesInk Looking back at the past few decades of the development of computing, there are some clear stages that can be identified, and some issues that need to be addressed before we can unleash its next level of potential. Until around the 1990s, electronics and…
Ambassador Diana Lady Dougan When the Global Telecom Women’s Network was formally founded thirty years ago, the word “telecom” had already become the de facto catch-all term for the explosion of cross- over synergies ignited in the early 1980s. They were created by the competitive forces of deregulation that were…
Laureen R. Cook, Executive TMTS Adviser, Extelcon Consulting The Digital Economy via 5G is currently on track to become the dominant mobile technology worldwide from 2025 and beyond. The future of Mobile will be an all immersive, high definition, user experience, taking us seamlessly from Gigabytes GB = 109 of…
Victoria Hernandez, Board Member (NED) CaixaBank Payments and Consumer The banking industry is undergoing a major transformation. The industry faces challenges and opportunities on many fronts – from the pandemic recovery, the growing competition from technology companies, the call to respond to the threats of climate change, to the increasing…
Jennifer L. Schenker, Editor-in-Chief, The Innovator1 Millions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America make a living collecting, sorting and selling materials foraged from landfills, along streets and waterways or dumpsters. In some counties these waste pickers provide the only form of solid waste collection, helping to achieve high…
Maria Pia Rossignaud, Vice President Osservatorio TuttiMedia and Director Media Duemila Derrick de Kerckhove, Scientific Director Osservatorio TuttiMedia and Media Duemila Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu1 Stéphane Mallarmé, Le tombeau d’Egard Poe In his translation of the work of Edgar Allen Poe, the French poet…
Laurence Bottero, Editor-in-Chief, La Tribune When on January 8, 2021, Donald Trump announced that he would not attend the inauguration of the new president- elect, Joe Biden, he made his last act of communication on Twitter. Since then, the former president of the United States of America has been banned…
Vicky Sleight, Vice President, Human Factor and Diversity and Inclusion TM Forum I believe diversity and inclusion are essential and business critical to a healthy, happy, creative and effective business. They boost innovation, empathy and empower employees from under-represented or marginalised communities. Importantly, with today’s business focus on ESG, (environmental,…
Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner, Australia “I am delighted to share my insights on eSafety’s Safety by Design initiative with readers of The Mobile Century. eSafety has a unique vantage point as the first government agency in the world dedicated exclusively to online safety, including the regulation of tech companies…
