Much has been happening with the Mobilium Global team over the past few weeks.  With high speed developments in mobile and especially so in the BRIC and developing markets, Mobilium have been staying on top of some of the most exciting mobile developments from around the world.

Our latest focus has been in Africa, where contrary to public understanding, Africa is showing a major advance in all aspects of mobile payments, mobile money and mobile commerce where subscribers are able to buy anything they want using their mobile device as the payment instrument and mechanism.  We went to Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and South africa to check all of this out and what did we find ?  We saw in each of these countries new developments that would leave the established and “older” world, surprised and jealous of the way that mobile users in Africa are getting savvy to new apps and usages despite the low penetration thus far, of smartphones.

We have also spent time in the Middle East and Egypt taking part in the United Nations’ World Summit Awards where 40 companies from around the world won special awards for mobile apps and inventiveness across the categories of m-Health, m-Government, m-Culture, m-Enetertainment and m-Business.  The Cairo ICT Summit and gathering under the auspices of the Minister of ICT in Egypt was a fascinating experience all round:  since the Arab Spring Revolution a year ago, mobile continues to be a major driver for effective commercial and social change.

Lagos Nigeria: With the MTN Nigeria content team - Nigeria's biggest telco April 2012

World summit Youth Award show poster - Cairo April 2012

Russian Minister of ICT Igor Shogalev - Moscow June 2011

With Esther Dyson founder of Flickr and Russia's Yandex - June 2011

World Summit Awards categories on show at the Cairo ICT - April 2012

Author Malcolm Gladwell gladhanding Ralph Simon at TED

Stan Lee, founder of MArvel Comics embraces Ralph Simon at Ken Rutkowski's LA MET gathering

With Kei Shimada, world leader & expert on Augmented Reality

Parmesh Shahani, director of the Godrej Future Lab, Mumbai India 2012

Entrance to the Cairo ICT in Egypt - April 2012

Social media revolutionaries Zakamek from the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt -April 2012

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The Global Mobile Warrior plane is getting ready to fly out to Barcelona for the month-end gathering of the 2012 Mobile World Congress – the largest gathering on earth for the mobile and wireless industry. Over 50,000 mobile professionals will descend upon the Catalonian city of Barcelona where it is hoped that a planned taxi strike will not inconvenience attendees. Handset makers, and representatives of the world’s 800+ mobile phone networks and telcos will be there to hear and see the latest innovation and what’s coming next for the mobile phone industry. Rapid conversion to smartphones and upgrading from feature phones is driving a massive upswing in new handset sales around the world. With some 5.5bn mobile phone users, and millions of wireless machines being able to communicate with each other is making for a fascinating future for those who think ahead and plan the mobile personality of their brand, company, service or involvement – and especially so when social media and social broadcasting become the norm of people on mobile world wide.

Interview Imogen  Heap – Speeding Cars – 2011:

Interview with producer Steve Lillywhite – producer of U2, Dave Matthews Band, etc.  - June 2011:

Interview with Jason Mraz in 2010

Interview with Jamie Cullum in 2009

Interview with Dmitry Medvedev – President of Russia (The Russian Federation), Moscow.

…with Elvis Costello