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…
Our vision of the future is shaped by our aspirations, our ideals and our past experience. And more than ever, our present experience of the pandemic, and its impact on almost every aspect of daily life, have brought into sharp focus exactly what really matters to us, whether as individuals…
Derrick de Kerckhove and Maria Pia Rossignaud On October 10 2020, TED and Future Stewards brought to YouTube the results of a global transgenerational consulting operation aimed at a global audience from all socio-economic levels. The 50 participants included celebrities such as Al Gore, Ursula von der Leyen, Richard Attenborough…
In August 2020 the southern Australian State of Victoria was firmly in the grip of a rapidly spreading second wave of CoVID-19. Daily infection numbers were running in the 700s with no sign of slowing down. Daily death rates, almost exclusively of aged care residents, were running in the low…
CMS believes in facing the future and driving change for our people and communities, for the legal sector and the wider business world. As a top 10 global law firm with a presence in over 40 countries and with colleagues from around the world, we are committed to an inclusive…
Welcome to the 2021 edition of the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN) flagship publication, The Mobile Century: Life and Work in the Digital Era (TMC). …
I always felt alone. As a small girl, when other female youngsters were not allowed to participate in the “dangerous” tree-climbing of the boys. I took part and loved the challenge. As a young professional, when I was the only non-male political journalist around. A hard experience, with the precious…
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.…
Welcome to the 2020 edition of The Mobile Century: Life and Work in the Digital Era. In this edition we are focusing on the global challenge of our era – climate change and how to ensure a sustainable, green economy and society into the future. Despite the cancellation of Mobile…
Reading about climate change these days can feel like a race against the clock. We’re bombarded with headlines about the urgent need for action, and the dwindling time remaining to take it. According to the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[1], we need to cut emissions by half by…
Data Centers: A Critical Infrastructure The growth of the Internet has been on an exponential trajectory since its inception in the late 1960s. Even today, some 60 years later, more people and their devices are connected, more data is stored, processed, and exchanged at an accelerated pace. Communications, media and…
Sinch brings businesses and people closer with tools enabling personal engagement. Its leading cloud communications platform lets businesses reach every mobile phone on the planet, in seconds or less, through mobile messaging, voice and video. Sinch is a trusted software provider to mobile operators, and its platform powers business-critical communications…
As the world considers how to transition to a low carbon energy future, battery technology is increasingly in the spotlight as holding the key to the future of energy production and storage. Industry research firm BloombergNEF forecasts that by 2030 the battery market will be worth $116 billion annually, and…
What is Loon? Loon is an Alphabet company based in Mountain View, California in the United States. Loon’s aim is to bridge the digital divide through the use of balloons traveling on the edge of space. Loon is a prime example of green technology entrepreneurship – creating and applying radical…
