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by Ajit Jaokar and Chetan Sharma
Open Gardens is published by futuretext
Recently, the OpenGardens blog was rated amongst the top 10 mobile blogs as per technorati stats.
Rated 8/10 on Blogged.com
I (Ajit) founded the blog on May 26, 2005 based on my vision and philosophy of OpenGardens i.e. the philosophical opposite of 'walled gardens' especially as applicable to the mobile data industry.
Today, the OpenGardens blog is one of the few blogs that span both the Web and the Mobile domains.
The blog covers wireless/mobile applications, open networks and mobile web 2.0. My vision behind the OpenGardens blog has been :
Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext (www.futuretext.com) focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies -including Web 2.0 and Mobile Web 2.0.
His thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, the OpenGardensBlog (www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com), which was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide
In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. He hopes to use this opportunity to further extend the pragmatic viewpoint of the evolution of Telecoms networks in an open ecosystem.
(Note: The Network of Global Agenda Councils plays a significant role in shaping the global agenda by monitoring global issues and elaborating recommendations to address them. Each Council, comprised of 15-20 Members, serves as an advisory board to the Forum and other interested parties, such as governments and international organizations. The Global Agenda Councils also act as the intellectual drivers of the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Initiative, an unprecedented international, multistakeholder and multimedia dialogue that aims to develop a 21st-century vision of global cooperation. Members of the G20, the UN and other International Organizations have pledged their support for this initiative. )
Ajit is best known for his books Mobile Web 2.0, Social Media Marketing. Two new books ('Open Mobile' and 'Implementing Mobile Web 2.0') are being released in 2009.
His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions across the device, network, Web and Social networking stack spanning both technology and strategy. He has worked with a range of commercial and government organizations globally including The European Union, Telecoms Operators, Device manufacturers, social networking companies and security companies in various strategic and visionary roles
His recent talks and forthcoming talks include: CEBIT 2009;MobileWorld Congress(2007, 2008, 2009); Keynote at O Reilly Web20 expo (April 2007);Keynote at Java One; European Parliament – Brussels – (Electronic Internet Foundation); Stanford University's Digital visions program;MIT Sloan;Fraunhofer FOKUS ; University of St. Gallen (Switzerland); Mobile Web Strategies (partner event of CTIA in San Francisco)
Media appearances include BBC – Newsnight – 3phone launch; CNN money; BBC digital planet
Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University.
Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is currently doing a PhD on Privacy and Reputation systems at UCL in London. Ajit is a fan of animation especially Tom and Jerry, Tintin and Asterix and likes the music of ZZ Top and other rock bands
You can contact me at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com
You can follow me on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/AjitJaokar
See a video of my talk at CEBIT in Hannover
(intro in
german - presenttion in english)
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Recently, I have had more than one companies offer me a ‘Mobile Network Operator’s Directory’
I am curious – since the English sounding names in the email end up ‘offshore’ when called.
There are no other contact details. At least two companies offer similar directories(leading me to question that either the information is freely available or it is unclear who has created it in the first place)
Can anyone endorse/give any more feedback?
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In response to ajit comment.
I don’t know how many companies offer a Mobile Network Operators Directory and how reliable they are, but they are useful.
I red in a magazine the other day that Deveo, a start up, is going to launch their Mobile Network Operators Directory. I think that their information will be reliable since they are specialized in the telecom industry. Plus, as I understood from their website, they offer direct marketing services to technology suppliers, and are in charge of putting them in contact with mobile operators.
Depending on the contact information you are looking I would not trust an offshore….
Comment by Roche Christel — February 6, 2008 @ 8:59 am
My company has made a directory of mobile network operators, which we published May 2007. Within the past few months we have noticed multiple me-too directories often using word for word our marketing text. Whether or not they have a directory to sell or not and as to the standard I do not know.
Our company worked with Portio Research to produce our directory (they had been making a mobile directory for years), The Worldwide Directory of Mobile Network Operators, to which we also have a companion directory, The MVNO Directory. Our research is done in house and we also have two weekly paid for telecoms newsletters.
Deveo? No idea who they are. Wireless Federation as well claim to have a directory, but they’re staff ignore our communications and there is no price on their site. Just text which looks very similar to our marketing text, which I authored.
Details about both can be found at http://www.MVNODirectory.com (our MNO site is currently switching servers, but MNO details are on the MVNO site too).
If anyone has concerns or questions then just ask me direct, we can provide brochures and representative sample pages. The Worldwide Directory of Mobile Network Operatos (The MNO Directory) is going to be updated in the near future.
You can also contact Matthew Tapson via the MVNODirectory.com site, or call +44-1494-771-734 (that’s a UK number).
Comment by John White — April 1, 2008 @ 12:22 pm