Re: mLife 2009 Update and Preliminary Program

Dear Colleagues

The preliminary detailed program for Mobile Life Conferences  
(mGOVERNMENT, mSOCIETY and mDEVELOPMENT) to beheld in Barcelona 2-4  
September is now posted on the conference web site: http://www.m4life.org

Key speakers include:

-- Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU  
Representation
-- Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, Deutsche Telekom  - Board Member of T-Mobile  
Germany and T-Home.
-- Evelyne Rys, CISCO, Sales and Business Development Manager, EMEA  
Public Sector Vertical, Cisco Systems
-- Ken Banks, Kiwanja Net
-- Micheal Bull, Professor, University Sussex

SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES: Only two days left to submit proposals to  
speak, to present demos at the interactive practice sessions. Please  
download the call and follow the instructions in the Call for practice  
talk, panels, workshop, demos and exhibitions: http://www.m4life.org/newdocuments/practicecall.pdf

BACKGROUND: mLife Events form A Platform for Socially Responsible  
Organizations in Mobile Value Chain

The influences of mobile technologies range from personal relations to  
interaction in society, and from the transformation of the public  
sector to the dynamics of economic development. mLife conference and  
exhibitions are prime events for all organizations and professionals  
who would like to monitor, take part in, and shape the development of  
the social impact of the mobile revolution. They provide opportunities  
to businesses, public sector organizations and researchers to explore  
the frontiers of the social mobile revolution and be informed in order  
to reach their goals. The three conferences will cover all aspects of  
mobile life, technology, services, implementation as they relate to  
individuals, society, economies and governments.

ORGANIZERS and SUPPORTERS: mLIfe Events are organized by the MObile  
Government Consortium Int, and Barcelona City Council and Sponsored /  
Supported by CISCO, BlackBerry and SPIDER

ONLINE REGISTRATIONs and for further information please refer to the http://www.m4life.org/ 
  or email conf@m4life.org

Regards
Kushchu


On 16 Jul 2009, at 09:45, Stephane Boyera wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I was discussing recently with prof. Ibrahim Kushchu from Mobile  
> Government Consortium International (http://www.mgovernment.org/ ).
> Kushchu is the organizer of the mLife/mDevelopment series of  
> conferences. I personnaly attended the 2008 instance, and it was a  
> very interesting event, well attended particularly with people from  
> many different Asian and African countries.
> The 2009 instance will take place in Barcelona, Spain 2-4 september.  
> See  http://www.m4life.org/
> Ken is participating and is the co-chair of the conference.
> Unfortunately, i will not be there myself, but Kushchu and myself  
> thought that it could be valuable to try to organize a panel on the  
> activity of our group.
> If there are people planning to attend or interested in this idea,  
> please let Kushchu (cc'd) know.
>
> Best
> Stephane
> -- 
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>

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IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD
Associate Professor and Founding Director,
Mobile Government Consortium International, UK
http://www.mgovernment.org
ik@mgovernment.org
+44 1273 777853