Renowned photographer Annie Leibowitz in London
Renowned photographer Annie Leibowitz & Mobilium Global CEO, Ralph Simon, make a perfect picture.
Seen at Annie Leibowitz’s amazing new exhibition, “Women: New Portraits”, an extension of a project she began with her late partner Susan Sontag in 1999. Thanks to Annie’s representative, Ken Hertz, for helping bring this remarkable body of Annie’s work to London and the world - which included Annie’s iconic portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. (Photo credit: Ken Hertz)
Mobilium & Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams and Ralph Simon in a stirring conversation at DLD, the extraordinary gathering that takes place in Munich at the start of the year. DLD is a great showcase for what’s coming next - in tech, and in what is affecting political and industry decisions around the world. Mobilium has a special insight into political strategy that affects digital and mobile businesses and brands. Jody Williams is also the founder of the Nobel Women’s Institute, the institution that specifically brings all of the world’s female Nobel Peace prize Laureates together for a very strong and unified voice for women and women’s issues around the world.
The Golden Age of Storytelling
The disruption of creative industries often comes to mind first when discussing the interface between digitalization and media. We know for a fact, that the TV & film industries will be shaken up significantly over the next 10 years. But which effect, precisely, will digitalization have on these creative industries ? What exactly is going to change for the directors, the screenplay writers, TV program creators, actors & costume designers ?
Mobilium keeps a keen eye on the very latest emerging patterns in media to be able to effectively advise their clients and creative collaborators on how best to enhance their creative output and create globally impactive programming - on mobile, online, on film, on second and third screens - it’s the golden age of “Screenagers"
Future Ready Now gathering in hip Berlin
l. to r. Ralph Simon, Mobilium Global CEO & Dr Heiner Benking of the Berlin-based Institute for Sustainability in Education, Work & Culture: saying “Wilkommen” to attendees at the special gathering & workshop held in Berlin this week for companies & NGOs to be ‘Future Ready Now’ & how to deploy mobile devices & media to enhance their global businesses. Dr Benking’s T-shirt says: “Failure is an opportunity”. We’re Future Ready !
Dr. Helen Sharman, is the first-ever British citizen in space
London. Helen Sharman, is the first-ever British citizen in space & the second woman to fly on a space station (Mir, May 1991) Prior to space training, she worked as a chemist at the Mars UK chocolate factory researching the properties of chocolate, because she liked chocolate & wanted to explore the flavours & scents of pure alpine chocolate. In November 1989 she responded to a radio ad for astronauts & was selected from more than 13,000 applicants to be part of Project Juno, a commercial British cosmonaut mission. She underwent 18 months of rigorous training at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia. Sharman was just 27 years & 11 months old when she went into space, making her the fifth youngest of the 528 individuals who have flown in space. The second youngest, Valentina Tereshkova, became the first woman in space in 1963 at the age of 26 years and 3 months. Helen was the 15th woman in space. To date 59 women have now flown in space since Valentina Tereshkova’s historic maiden’s maiden flight. From Mars chocolate, to a flight path towards Mars the planet.
The first woman to have flown in space, Dr. Valentina Tereshkova
London. Dr Valentina Tereshkova (78), with Mobilium Global CEO, Ralph Simon - an amazing, fearless woman !
Dr Tereshkova was selected from more than 400 applicants and 5 finalists to pilot Vostok 6 in June 1963 & spent almost 3 days in space, orbiting Earth 48 times - her only trip into space. Before her recruitment as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur skydiver, & although she did not have any experience as a pilot, she was accepted into the program because of her 126 parachute jumps. At the time, cosmonauts had to parachute from their capsules seconds before they hit the ground on returning to Earth.
Along with four other women, Tereshkova received 18 months of training, which included tests to determine how she would react to long periods of time being alone, to extreme gravity conditions and to zero-gravity conditions. Of the five women, only Tereshkova went into space.On her historic space flight, she spent nearly three days in orbit, photographing layers in the Earth’s atmosphere, the Moon, and monitoring the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
* Secret unveiled this week: The Soviet Space Agency had thought of most things, but had not remembered to pack her a toothbrush.
“Unfortunately it is a fact,” said Tereshkova, 78. “But I’m very resourceful as any woman would be. I had my toothpaste, and I had my hand, and I had water.”
She also revealed how after entering orbit she quickly realised that her spacecraft – the Vostok 6 – had an error in the control programme which would have seen it travelling further away from Earth on the journey home rather than descending. She sorted this out with Mission Control and came back safe and alive. In 2013 at age 76, she offered to go on a one-way trip to Mars if the opportunity arose. She is in London to launch a new exhibition ‘Cosmonauts - Birth of the Space Age’ at London’s Science Museum.
Akon & 2face endorse 'Smart Health'
Akon & 2face have officially joined Mobilium Global & the Global Fund and endorsed the Smart Health app.
Launching in February in over 9 countries, the innovative platform will deliver free, vital and lifesaving information to over 50 Million people across the African Continent and through a distribution partnership will be preloaded on all Samsung phones.
Join us, 2face, Akon, Samsung and the Global Fund by saying ‘Count Me In’ and being a part of this big game changer, enhancing Health & Wellness for Africans in Africa.