Life and Work in the Digital Era
The theme of the 2023 edition of The Mobile Century is digital metamorphosis. This reflects the profound changes that are happening in the digital tech sector in all of its forms – in networking, mobile, media, space and the internet. To the GTWN, digital transformation is an essential prerequisite for…
An Interview with Janice Hughes, CBE, Co-Founder of Graphite Strategy and Co-Founder of Spring Fibre. TMC: Investment specialist River and Mercantile (R&M) announced in September 2022 that they would invest up to £155 million to support the rollout of Spring Fibre’s ultrafast full fibre broadband network across England. Can you…
Gema Esteban Garrido, Global Head of ESG, IG4Capital First of all let’s talk about the overall size of the whole ESG market. According to Bloomberg Intelligence (Fig 1) Assets Under Management (AUM) are going to exceed USD41 trillion in 2023 and USD50 trillion in 2025, which will represent one third…
Laureen R. Cook, Executive TMTS Adviser, Extelcon Greenwashing is a term used to describe a false, misleading or an unsubstantiated set of claims made by an organization related to the positive impact that a company, product, or service has on the environment, society, and/or governance (ESG) related issues. As we…
Thierry Gadou, CEO SES-imagotag I find it surprising that retail is relatively absent from the core debate on net-zero even though it’s the largest economic sector and private employer in the world, with over 15% of global GDP and jobs1. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are usually broken down into energy,…
Shally Jannif, CEO Digicel Pacific The Mobile Century (TMC) met with CEO of Digicel Pacific, Shally Jannif, to explore how the industry can help connect the island nations of the Pacific to economic and social opportunity through digital technology. TMC: What do you see as the main challenges facing the…
Carla Cico, Vice- Chairman of the Board, Olympia Group (Greece) Only a little more than 20 years have passed since the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcy scandals that, among other ramifications, forced the wholesale revision and reinforcement of Corporate Governance and Risk Management. New legislation and financial reporting requirements were enacted…
Heather E. Hudson, Ph.D., J.D. Professor Emerita, University of San Francisco, and Affiliate Professor and former Director, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) University of Alaska, Anchorage The importance of access to telecommunications in Indigenous communities and developing regions has been recognized since the 1970’s, when voice telephony was…
Nicola Palmer, Chief Technology Ambassador at Verizon and Member of the Board of GTWN As a Member of the International Board of the GTWN, I am pleased that in 2023 we are mounting a call to action to the mobile industry to work together to help close the digital divide.…
Michele M. Merrell, President Merrell Consulting Group President, Americas, GTWN The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has led to advancements in many fields, including the technology industry. ChatGPT, a viral sensation launched in November 2022, is an AI-driven chatbot application developed by OpenAI1, a research laboratory initially founded in…
Victoria Hernandez, Board Member (NED) at CaixaBank Payments & Consumer Boards have a particularly important role in ensuring appropriate management of cyber risk as part of their fiduciary and oversight roles. But to fulfill these responsibilities, they need to fully understand the difference between cyber security and cyber resilience. Many…
Sheena Jacob, Partner and Head of Privacy & Technology at CMS SingaporeDr Fiona Savary, Senior Associate IT, Technology and Data Protection at CMS Germany Critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities are facing growing cyber threats – to the point where it has become a question of “when” rather than “if”…
Vrinda Kapoor, CEO, 114ai There are prevalent assumptions about AI – that you need to be data scientist or engineer, a ‘boffin’ in order to understand what is happening ‘within the black box’. And so without these prerequisite skills you should not try to get involved. But this presumption by…
