Ericsson and TeliaSonera marked the 30th anniversary of NMT – Nordic Mobile Telephony Thursday in Stockholm. At a small gathering for media followed by a nostalgic mingle for “pioneers old and new,” memories came alive. Touching, especially because many of the ambitions for the innovative network are ones we still talk about coming into the [...]
It’s not going to be big – it’s going to be huge. That’s what Ynon Kreiz, CEO of the Endemol Group, thought about Social TV when he told the audience at the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference back in January 2011 to leave the room and to start working on the future of TV right [...]
To continue where I left off yesterday, we also asked the participants of a ConsumerLab study among Swedish teenagers to describe different Facebook personalities. Here’s what we found.
You are probably a Facebook member and have heard about all the changes the platform announced last week. But have you reflected about how new rules and manners are developing as the service matures? According to a recent study conducted by ConsumerLab among Swedish teenagers, a rulebook for Facebook is crucial.
It was almost like a reality show. The final session of the Social Good Summit brought eight entrepreneurs onstage to pitch their ideas for Startups for Good. The winner took ten-thousand dollars home to give their idea a chance on the marketplace.
Social media gets a lot of well-deserved credit for giving rise to the young voices involved in the Arab Spring movements. But what’s next is a fair question. Again, enter Information and Communications Technology (ICT) – not just as a free and open megaphone, but as a potential economic engine.
The First Lady of South Africa and the wife of the Kenyan Prime Minister took to the stage at #socialgood today and made social networking history. The moderator of the conversation was Yvonne Chaka Chaka, a famous performer who sang her first question to Madam Tobeka Madiba Zuma (South Africa) and Dr. Ida Odinga (Kenya.) [...]
Eventually the phrase “show me the money” would have to come out during the Social Good Summit. Yesterday, in the rest of New York, traffic was gridlocked around the Clinton Global Initiative, which talked about jobs. Our own Hans Vestberg was part of that executive roundtable.
We talk about portability of our devices, of our mobile networks, and of our media for consumption. Today I have two fresh examples of that, from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Video didn’t kill radio. E-book readers will not kill paperback books. The first discussion of the day at the #socialgood Summit posed important questions about what we gain as well as what we might leave behind as we launch into new modes of communication and networking.
When one person connects, his or her life changes.
With everything connected our world changes.
Let’s discuss one of the most important trends facing our planet, the emergence of the Networked Society.
Be part of it!