Life and Work in the Digital Era
The theme of the 2025 edition of the Mobile Century is DIGITAL HUMANISM, which acts as both a logical consequence and a summary of the two previous year’s themes: Digital Metamorphosis in 2023 and Digital Generation in 2024. The core aim of Digital Humanism is to balance technological developments and human values, as well as to ensure that technological progress…
Victoria Hernandez-Valcarcel, GTWN President – Europe “I am a man for whom the external world is an inner reality.*” – Fernando Pessoa Pessoa’s words whisper a timeless truth: what we…
Victoria Hernandez-Valcarcel, GTWN President – Europe Have you ever wondered if technology is shaping us more than we’re shaping it? Or whether our digital lives are helping us connect—or driving…
Bridget Cosgrave, GTWN Global President Candace Johnson, GTWN Founding President and Member of the Board1 Looking towards the future of digital technology, it is timely for the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN) to reflect on the contribution of our members to increasing the leadership of women in the sector. Founded…
Interview by Vicki MacLeod Elisabeth Slapio has been a member of the GTWN Board since its inception. The Mobile Century caught up with her as she retired from her position as the Director Innovation and Environment at the Cologne Chamber of Commerce, Germany and began a new chapter as an…
The motto of the GTWN encapsulates both the spirit and the purpose of the organisation. As a group of senior women in the telecommunications and broader digital media sphere, we believe in using technology in a way that is appropriate to human culture, in all of its forms.…
Thirty years of the Global Telecom Women’s Network, what an incredible achievement. I am delighted that we are celebrating the GTWN’s 30 years here in Barcelona, at MWC22. Let’s take a moment to look back at just a few of the women that have played a fundamental role in the…
CMS is proud to support the GTWN through our sponsorship of The Mobile Century. We hope that this 30th Anniversary edition will inspire you, as it does us, to continue to recognise and celebrate the extraordinary work done by women in the digital space. We are honoured that we were…
The GTWN was excited and honoured to be represented at the G20 and B20 meetings in Bali, Indonesia from 13 to 17 November 2022. Our Founding President, Candace Johnson, spoke on the main stage in a panel session at the B20 and was also a featured speaker at the G20…
by Maria Fernanda Garza, Chair International Chamber of Commerce The following keynote address was given by Maria at the B20 Summit in Bali on 13 November 2022. Women have been a growing factor in the success of the global economy since the 1970s. The additional productive power of women entering…
The Tapestries of the Sea project, a Call to Action on Marine Sustainability, was created by Creative Cooperative in Cannes in the south of France, with the idea of detecting and recovering discarded fishing nets from the Mediterranean. The salvaged material is reprocessed into nylon yarn, which is then designed…
The GTWN partnered with the GSMA’s Diversity in Tech program to present several keynotes and panel discussions at Mobile 360 APAC, which took place in Singapore on 2 and 3 August 2022. The GTWN was represented at the conference by GTWN Founding President Candace Johnson, Secretary-General Vicki MacLeod and…
Digital Metamorphosis is the 2022-23 theme for the GTWN’s flagship publication The Mobile Century (TMC). Every year the GTWN choses a theme to guide the authors’ contributions to TMC. Starting mid 2022, we have decided to transform TMC into a rolling digital publication. Each digital chapter will coincide with events…
GTWN Founding President, Chair of Seraphim Space Advisory Board, Vice Chair of NorthStar and Founder/Co-Founder of SES, SES Global, Loral Teleport Europe, Europe Online, and OWNSAT among other pioneering ventures and organizations, Candace Johnson opened the discussion by moderating a panel during the first keynote on how we can build…
EVP Strategy and Transformation at Colt, Jaya Deshmukh participated in a keynote at Mobile 360 APC on Building the Future Digital Nation. Jaya was also representing Colt CEO, Keri Gilder, who has recently been appointed as GTWN Global President. Jaya laid out Colt’s vision of finding new ways to build…
One of the GTWN’s newest Board members, CEO of Bixie, Rosalia Gitau joined in a fireside chat on the New Mobile Economy. Rosalia detailed how she came to focus on ensuring digital inclusion, setting out the background to her journey from corporate lawyer to start-up entrepreneur for financial inclusion for…
