Ambassador Diana Lady Dougan When the Global Telecom Women’s Network was formally founded thirty years ago, the word “telecom” had already become the de facto catch-all term for the explosion of cross- over synergies ignited in the early 1980s. They were created by the competitive forces of deregulation that were…

Laureen R. Cook, Executive TMTS Adviser, Extelcon Consulting The Digital Economy via 5G is currently on track to become the dominant mobile technology worldwide from 2025 and beyond. The future of Mobile will be an all immersive, high definition, user experience, taking us seamlessly from Gigabytes GB = 109 of…

Victoria Hernandez, Board Member (NED) CaixaBank Payments and Consumer The banking industry is undergoing a major transformation. The industry faces challenges and opportunities on many fronts – from the pandemic recovery, the growing competition from technology companies, the call to respond to the threats of climate change, to the increasing…

Jennifer L. Schenker, Editor-in-Chief, The Innovator1 Millions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America make a living collecting, sorting and selling materials foraged from landfills, along streets and waterways or dumpsters. In some counties these waste pickers provide the only form of solid waste collection, helping to achieve high…

Maria Pia Rossignaud, Vice President Osservatorio TuttiMedia and Director Media Duemila Derrick de Kerckhove, Scientific Director Osservatorio TuttiMedia and Media Duemila Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu1 Stéphane Mallarmé, Le tombeau d’Egard Poe In his translation of the work of Edgar Allen Poe, the French poet…

Laurence Bottero, Editor-in-Chief, La Tribune When on January 8, 2021, Donald Trump announced that he would not attend the inauguration of the new president- elect, Joe Biden, he made his last act of communication on Twitter. Since then, the former president of the United States of America has been banned…

Vicky Sleight, Vice President, Human Factor and Diversity and Inclusion TM Forum I believe diversity and inclusion are essential and business critical to a healthy, happy, creative and effective business. They boost innovation, empathy and empower employees from under-represented or marginalised communities. Importantly, with today’s business focus on ESG, (environmental,…

Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner, Australia “I am delighted to share my insights on eSafety’s Safety by Design initiative with readers of The Mobile Century. eSafety has a unique vantage point as the first government agency in the world dedicated exclusively to online safety, including the regulation of tech companies…

María González Gordon, Partner and Head of the Industrial Property, Intellectual Property and Digital Business, CMS Jules Verne’s Paris in the 20th century, written in 1863, was not published until 1994 because Verne considered its tone to be excessively pessimistic. It is the story of a man who lives in…

Anna Borgström, CEO NetClean The internet is rapidly becoming the predominant gateway to information but also a hub for many illegal activities. When traditional offline crimes become cybercrime, they increase in scale with the use of computers and networks, reaching and affecting far more people than previously possible. One crime…

Caroline Logan Manager, CollaborateUp In early 2020 dozens of 5G towers were set on fire throughout Europe.1 The cause? False information spread online claiming that the millimeter wave spectrum used by 5G technology causes COVID-19. The falsehoods were backed with the fact that Wuhan had installed 5G towers before the…

Emma Burnett, Partner and UK Head of Technology and Data Protection CMS As a member of Generation X, I moved fairly seamlessly from analog to online, perhaps not noticing how quickly and completely day-to-day tasks were transformed. The next generations, as we all know, have emerged as digital natives and…