It’s hot to talk about urbanization. People are moving into cities at an astounding rate: somewhere in the world, around 7500 people are moving to a city every HOUR. The resulting problems that move along with that population explosion – think not only traffic, think jobs, social services, not to mention garbage - many if not all of those issues can be solved by Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
The Future Cities conference in progress
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Is understanding of the logics of the internet and coding the new English? Continue reading
Users are using their smartphones to access the internet. This is no surprise. But what is surprising is the rate at which this is happening. Mobile data traffic has doubled from the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011. Continue reading
Last week, I read an article in CNN’s series on “Our Mobile Society”, looking at the way mobile phones have changed the way we “work, play and communicate”. It seems a hot topic these days is mobile money – and what having a ‘phone’ will mean for us in the Networked Society.
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As someone who started in the fixed networking arena, it’s staggering to think of what’s encompassed by the words ‘broadband networks’ today compared to the quite finite description that would have fit in the past. Continue reading
Steve Jobs’ death marks a sad day for the industry – and for the millions of people whose relationship with technology and devices has been profoundly changed by his visionary thinking. Continue reading
I already firmly believe in the benefits being connected can have for people, business and society. And it seems that more and more people are seeing the benefits of connectivity through broadband too. Continue reading
The debate remains as to exactly how societies have developed and changed over time. One common argument is that in many parts of the world, societies have gone from being agricultural societies to industrial societies into information societies – which is now the bridge to the Networked Society. Continue reading
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 Networked Society. Continue reading
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 away. And it seems that some of them have. Continue reading
