Being Mobile

We had a lab on Future of wireless at lunch time. Nicholas (who is among all other things also on the Board of Motorola) stressed the fact that mobility is the act of working away from your primary workplace. It still needs to be said out loud. So many times mobility is exemplified with cellphones and nothing else. Too much attention on the devices and not on the functions, if you ask me. Being mobile is a matter of accessing data wherever you are. Identification and security issues can cause problems. But once your corporate data is mobilized, then you can change processes. Last week I got an impressive presentation on the Danish use of mobile solutions in Care. Back to our lunch-discussion: besides security matters, the ease of management and the scalability are crucial. Upon 3G Negroponte concluded that it is a sad story, a false path that should have been abandoned long ago - it was too little, too early.