GTWN launches Call to Action for Digital Inclusion for All and honors 3 Industry Pioneers – Martin Cooper, Dr. Michael Short and Candace Johnson
27 February 2023: At its traditional Welcome Cocktail on the opening evening of Mobile Congress, the GTWN honored three industry pioneers and issued a Call to Action for Digital Inclusion for All in the iconic and elegant Golden Hall of the medieval Casa Llotja in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. GTWN International Board (L-R) Dora Petranyi, Bridget Cosgrave, Keri Gilder, Janice Hughes, Michele Merrell, Victoria Hernandez, Candace Johnson, Viviane Reding, Lucy Lombardi, Jessie McLeman, Myla Villanueva, Isabelle Paradis, Sallye Clark, Leticia Latino, Ana Tavares- Lattibeaudiere and Laureen Cook GTWN Welcome Cocktail 2023 guests GTWN President Keri Gilder paid tribute to the father of the cellular phone, Martin Cooper, (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Cooper) for not only for having developed the cellular phone and made the first call from a cell phone 50 years ago, but also to him and his wife, Arlene Harris for having continued to enable the acceptance of the cell phone by adding services and features to make it be one of the biggest factors in bringing about social and economic wellbeing to citizens around the world. Martin Cooper It was particularly fitting and poignant for the GTWN to launch its Call to Action for Digital Inclusion for All, (https://www.gtwn.org/gtwn-call-to-action-to-ensure-digital-inclusion-for-all/ ) together with the GSMA in the presence of its CEO and Board Member, Mats Granryd and Claire Sibthorpe, who is Head of Digital Inclusion in the Mobile for Development (M4D) team at GSMA. Mats Granryd Claire Sibthorpe The GTWN then called Dr. Mike Short[1]to the podium to be honored [...]