Rain Rannu, Founder at Fortumo Ltd, Estonia

Rain is a founder of Fortumo, responsible for company’s strategic and new business development.

Rain has been involved in mobile industry for 10 years. Prior to founding Fortumo, Rain was also the founder and head of business development for the leading Baltic mobile service provider Mobi Solutions. Rain has also worked in several innovative enterprises in the fields of sales, web development and project consulting.

Rain has an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship and Technology Management from the University of Tartu. He is frequently lecturing at E-Governance Academy and is among the speakers at industry events like Mobile World Congress.

Besides spending time with his family, Rain likes to travel, read, listen to good music, run a marathon every year and play tennis once in a while.

ibrahim Kushchu, Associate Prof. and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, mGCI, UK
Ibrahim Kushchu is an expert Mobile Government with backgrounds on management systemsand artificial intelligence. Combining his management studies and his expertise in artificialintelligence, Prof. Kushchu has been working for business schools in the UK and in Japan, andteaching various information communication technology courses especially related toelectronic business and mobile business.
Prof. Kushchu is an internationally recognized and pioneering practitioner and researcher indeveloping the mobile government field by bringing into the light the issues related to theuse of mobile technologies in electronic government. His work also extends to impact ofmobile technologies for economic and social development.
He has edited and co-edited three books and has a number of publications in variousinternational journals and in the proceedings of reputable conferences. He is also very activein international community of researchers through speaking, organizing, chairing, co-chairingvarious international conferences, and serving in the committees.
He has been working with various multi-national companies including GATES FOUNDATION,CISCO, NOKIA, HITACHI, and NTT DoCoMo at projects involving consultancy, research, andeducational events. He also offers advisory services to local and central governmentorganization and their agencies.
Prof. Kushchu holds a first degree (BSc) in management. He also has an MBA and a Master’sdegree (MSc) in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was awarded aPhD degree in evolutionary artificial intelligence from the University of Sussex, UK.

Roland Traunmüller, Professor Emeritus with the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria.

Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmüller studied Chemistry and Physics at Vienna University and joined the Max-Planck-Institute in Mühlheim (Ruhr) working on his PH.D. in calculating quantum-models of chemical reactions. In 1970 he went back to Austria becoming head of a DP-department within Public Administration. After three years he joined the Technical Faculty of Linz University (Senior Lecturer with Habilitation 1977, University Professor with tenure 1983). He also served many years as the Director of the Institute at the Institute of Computer Science before getting his own Institute. During these years he has accepted several invitations for visiting professorships (Amsterdam, Bangkok, Bonn, Budapest, Chengdu, Graz, Heidelberg, Paris, Prague, Speyer, Zaragoza).

Prof. Traunmüller has worked in the field of Information Systems and applications of information technology in Government for three decades. He is author of 140 publications and editor of numerous books. Within IFIP he was founder and chairman of the working group “Information Systems in Public Administration” (IFIP 8.5) and served as deputy chairman of IFIP Technical Committee 8 “Information Systems”. In that function he chaired two Conferences at the recent IFIP World Congresses, so in 1998 “Telecooperation” and in 2002 “e-Business”. In Austria Prof. Traunmüller heads the Forum e-Government, in Germany he is member of the steering body e-Government within the German Computer Society (GI, Bonn). Prof. Traunmüller founded the EGOV conference series with high resonance. In addition he is involved in various consulting activities and boards on the national and international level (Ministries, EU, UNO, UNESCO). In recognition of his work official acknowledgements have come in. So for founding the e-Government R&D Community he got 2006 the “Prometheus” – an Award dedicated by the North-American Society on Digital Government and by the European Community for e-Government.

Professor William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College.

Before coming to Oxford in 2002, he was a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, where he was elected President of the Faculty, and is now an Emeritus Professor. In the UK, he was a Fulbright Scholar 1986-87, and was National Director of the UK’s Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) from 1993 to 1996.

In addition to directing the OII, Professor Dutton is Principal Investigator of the Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, and Principal Investigator of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS), a key resource on the use and impact of the Internet in Britain, that is one component of the World Internet Project, an international collaboration comprising over 20 nations.

His recent publications on the social aspects of information and communication technologies include Society on the Line (Oxford University Press, 1999), and Transforming Enterprise, co-edited (MIT Press, 2005), and World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, co-edited with P. Jeffreys (MIT Press, 2010). He is currently editing a four volume series of readings on the Internet and Politics for Routledge and a handbook on Internet studies (in progress, Oxford University Press).

Beyond his academic roles, Bill chairs Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for England.

Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation

Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, National Center for Digital Government (ncdg.org)
Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative (umass.edu/sts)

Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT

Professor William H. Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College

ibrahim Kushchu, Associate Prof. and Founding Director, mGCI, UK

Rain Rannu, Founder at Fortumo Ltd, Estonia

Roland Traunmüller, Professor Emeritus, the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria.

Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, National Center for Digital Government (ncdg.org)
Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative (umass.edu/sts)

Jane E. Fountain is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previously, she served for 16 years on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Fountain is the founder and Director of the National Center for Digital Government, based at UMass Amherst, which was established with support from the National Science Foundation to build research and infrastructure for the emerging field of research on technology and governance. The National Center has sponsored research workshops, seminars, doctoral fellowships and visiting researchers from around the world in addition to its active research programs.

Professor Fountain also directs the Science, Technology and Society Initiative, a campus-wide effort at UMass Amherst. The STS Initiative serves as a catalyst for research partnerships between social, natural and physical scientists on campus and beyond. It is designed to build social science, policy and cross-disciplinary research on the range of social, political and economic challenges and research questions posed by emerging technologies. Fountain is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, principal investigator of the International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering project (IDEESE) and co-principal investigator of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE). Fountain also directs the Women in the Information Age Project, which was established with a gift from PriceWaterhouseCoopers. This project examines the participation of women in computing and information-technology related fields and, with its partner institutions, seeks to increase the number of women experts in information and communication technologies.

Among many other publications, Fountain is the author of Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), which was awarded an Outstanding Academic Title in 2002 by Choice and translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Japanese. Her articles appear in scholarly journals including Governance, the National Civic Review, Technology in Society, Science and Public Policy, and the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Fountain is currently a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on the Future of Government. She is a member of American Bar Association blue ribbon commission on the Future of e-Rulemaking.  She has served on several advisory bodies for organizations including the Social Science Research Council, the Internet Policy Institute, and the National Science Foundation. She has given invited lectures and keynote addresses and worked with governments and research institutions including the World Bank, the European Commission, Knowledge Management Asia Pacific, Japan, Portugal, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Chile, Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Fountain holds a PhD from Yale University, in organizational behavior and in political science, and graduate degrees from Harvard and Yale. She has been a Radcliffe Fellow, a Yale Fellow, and a Mellon Fellow.

For a list of Fountain’s grants, honors and awards please click here.
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Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation

Mr. Ferré Serge is graduated from ESSEC (Graduate School of Business Administration) (1972/major Finance & Accounting), holds a Master degree in Law (1972/major Business Law), Paris C. University, an MBA from University of Toronto, Canada (1974) in Finance and Certificate in Investment Banking – Institute of Canadian Banking (1974).

1985-1991 : Mr. Ferré Serge Worked at BANG & OLUFSEN France as Managing Director, Member of Group Strategic Committees (Product Development and Distribution)

1991-2003 : he joined NOKIA France where he served as Managing Director, (Nokia Mobile Phones) and Directeur Général, Nokia SA.

2003-2006 : he was appointed in April 2003 Vice-President Strategy, Multimedia (Global) & Délégué Général Nokia France.

In January 2007, as Corporate Vice President,Nokia (Global), he became Head of Nokia EU Representative Office in Brussels in charge of Nokia EU Affaires.

In October 2008, he additionally became Board Member of Nokia International Belgium BVBA

Mobile technologies are having a great impact on how we live our lives. These influences 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 mobile revolution and its impact on individuals, businesses, government, society  and economies.  They provide opportunities to businesses, public sector organizations and researchers to explore the frontiers of the social mobile revolution and stay informed in order to reach their goals.

Mobile technologies have significant impact on not only individual life, societies and organizations but also on economies. This impact is clearly visible for the developing economies in Africa, Latin America and parts of the Asia.          

mDevelopment Conference aims to explore the impact of the mobile technologies on economic and social development and invites all professionals from public, private, non-profit and third sector org organizations to create a prime platform for knowledge exchange and dissemination.

Mobile Government involves revolutionary approaches to the modernization of public sector via the utilization of networked mobile technologies in local or central government organizations. It aims to enhance public sector business by creating new opportunities to provide services to society. mGovernment is now a recognized field of practice and research, and constitutes the next evolutionary step of progress in eGovernment. 

The EURO mGOV conference aims to be a platform for presenting, exchanging and disseminating the newest developments, ideas, applications and services in the field of mGovernment among public and private sector professionals and the researchers.