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…
Interviews with Keri Gilder, CEO Colt Technologies and Kate Johnson, CEO Lumen Technologies Drivers for change When the GTWN was founded over thirty years ago, there were very few women in senior roles in the communications industry. GTWN founding members were so few in number that they were able to…
Rosalia Gitau, CEO Bixie and Board Member GTWN Uncertainty. That was the mood of the 500+ women that day in September 2022. We were jam packed in a room on the outskirts of Manila. We didn’t need to ask them how they felt in order to gauge the vibe. It…
GTWN is proud to welcome Rebecca Enonchong as a member of our International Board. Rebecca is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AppsTech, a leading global provider of enterprise application solutions. She is also co-founder of I/O Spaces, an inclusive coworking space in the Washington DC metro area. A…
Candace Johnson, Serial Space Entrepreneur, Chair Seraphim Space Advisory Board and Partner, Vice-Chair NorthStar Earth & Space, Executive Board Member ICC Space is ubiquitous1. In the digital world and thanks to IoT, sensors, AI, robotics, etc. our world and our planet have become connected via space and in space. It…
Maria Fernanda Garza, Chair International Chamber of Commerce Women have been a growing factor in the success of the global economy since the 1970s. The additional productive power of women entering the workforce over the past 50 years accounts for about a quarter of global GDP.1 But, still, the full…
Kenechi Okeleke, Director, Regional, Social and Policy Research at GSMA Closing the digital connectivity gap is crucial to realising the full potential of digital technology and ensuring that all areas of the world reap the benefits in terms of their economic and social development. Accurate data about the coverage and…
Candace Johnson, GTWN Founding President and Bridget Cosgrave, GTWN President Emeritus Ten years ago, the GTWN was called on by GTWN Lifetime Achievement Award Winner and the then 1st Vice President of the European Commission, Viviane Reding to help her with her initiative to establish a quota of 40 %…
Cultivating the highest value digital transformation More and more companies view digital transformation as an opportunity to reinvent themselves. Smart data, the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 all demonstrate how digital transformation has brought far-reaching changes to the global economy. CMS is helping our clients navigate this new reality…
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…
