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…
2020 will finally be the year when people around the world realise that the effect of man-made climate change is not something that is going to occur decades from now in far-flung places, but that it is happening today and it is happening in their homes. For the last 60…
In spite of all the scientific evidence that Climate Change (CC) is real, the global debate about it is overwhelming. Serious arguments for (mostly) and against its real occurrence, about its danger, and the human responsibility behind it, number in the hundreds, if not thousands. In this introduction to CC, there…
Finance impacts the natural environment both directly and indirectly. The environment also directly and indirectly impacts finance and the performance of investments. As global awareness of the impacts of climate change on all areas of business rises, so does investor concern about what actually counts as “green finance”. Green finance…
In February 2019, Verizon became the first U.S. telecom company to issue a green bond. The bond offering raised almost $1 billion in net proceeds for renewable energy, energy efficiency, green buildings, sustainable water management and biodiversity and conservation. As of December 31, 2019, approximately $500 million of net proceeds…
The 2019 Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific by UNESCAP: Ambitions beyond growth reveals that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires an additional annual investment of $1.5 trillion for Asia-Pacific developing countries—equivalent to 5 percent of their combined GDP in 2018. While this seems unfathomable,…
Welcome to the 2019 edition of the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN) agship publication, The Mobile Century: Life and Work in the Digital Era (TMC). This year, in recognition of the continuing evolution of the digital age, we decided to explore how digital technology in all of its forms is…
EDNA CONWAY Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain, Cisco We used to only imagine a world where connected “things” talk to, listen to, and observe all of us. For example, biometric data compiling real-time as we eat, sleep, and go about our lives in order to provide us with better…
SANDRINE MURCIA CEO and Co-Founder, Cosmian The latest, state-of-the-art cryptographic technologies are poised to become our next best friends to protect our personal data. While allowing the data economy to thrive without compromising our privacy. For about a year now, there has not been a single week without news of…
MARY PATTERSON CLARK Chief Product Officer and CMO, Synchronoss Consumers increasingly want the ability to access all aspects of their digital life anywhere and anytime. They also want the simple, easy-to-use experience now made ubiquitous by Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Net ix and Google (FAANG). These companies, which have grown up…
MICHELE MERRELL President, Merrell Consulting Group, North America President of GTWN For all the benefits of the fourth industrial revolution, the age of the Internet and big data, most of us are faced with an inability to adequately prevent eSecurity breaches that seem to occur on a daily basis, despite…
LAUREEN R COOK Executive TMT Adviser, Extelcon 2G/GSM gave us digital voice on a global scale, 3G gave us additional capacity with a taste of mobile data, and 4G brought a transformation in network topology from circuit switched to IP based, allowing basic commercial IoT applications to become a reality.…
DR LEA LAHNSTEIN Cross-Cutting Co-ordinator, Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership The UK has sequenced 100,000 whole genomes in the National Health Service Collectively revolutionising medical practice and research, whole genome sequences are a resource that keeps on giving. Initially collected for patients and their clinical care, their digital nature makes…
KATE MCKENZIE CEO, Chorus Fixed and mobile network operators around the world are facing an ever- increasing demand by their customers for more data. This growth is largely due to a changing digital culture and a switch from voice to video, the growth in online video gaming, as well as…
