eZine July 2008

WBF eZine

President's Note

Events

- Wireless Wednesday

- GMR 2008 call for papers

Members

- Aaron Davidson, CEO of Simworks, updates us on the latest Barcamp Mobile event

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President's Note

We've raced through seven months of this year and how have you gone so far at work or in your business? It's often healthy to take stock for a few minutes to check if you are on track for success this year and look at your milestones ahead. Some of the milestones I've noticed that have zipped past me over the past 7 months include the launch of ADSL 2+ services, the full EVDO RevA deployment and of course the iPhone Launch. As we head toward the silly season make sure you have your ducks in a row and remember – there's an election soon!

Events

Wireless Wednesday

6pm Wednesday 6th August 2008, Floating Pavilion, 161 Halsey Street, Viaduct, Auckland.

Next month's Wireless Wednesday discusses Long Term Evolution (LTE), regarded as the future of mobile technology. We have an expert, Kursten Leins, from Ericsson New Zealand/Australia presenting on how LTE works as well as the issues and trends that arise.

If you haven't RSVP'd for this, please do so info@wirelessforum.org.nz

 

GMR 2008

7th Global Mobility Roundtable Conference on Innovative Services Through Mobile Technologies
23 - 25 November 2008
University of Auckland Business School
New Zealand
http://www.gmr2008.org

Call For Papers

The call for papers includes, but isn't limited to these topics:

Mobile Business and the Enterprise
Business Models for Mobile Commerce
Consumer Information Systems
Effectiveness of SMS campaigns in the Retail Markets
Mobile Information Systems in the Workforce
Location based Social Networking
Cases in Mobile Business
GIS and Mobile Services
Globalization through Mobility
Emerging M-Business Research and the Development of Theory in this Field of Inquiry
Innovation in Mobile Business and Technologies
Mobile Consumer Services
Mobile-Government and the development of mobile services
Social Networks and Mobility
The New Frontier: M-Business in the Developing World
ICT and Social Inclusion: bridging the gap with mobile technologies
Understanding Mobile Users and Social Contexts
Mobile Information Systems in the Health Sector

Important Dates
Submission Deadlines: 31 July2008
Notification of Acceptance: 15 September 2008

Submissions are encouraged for the following audiences
Academics
Industry

Journal Fast Tracking
A special issue of JITTA will fast track selected conference papers

Conference Proceedings
Conference proceedings will be published in an edited volume with an ISBN/ISSN number.

Submissions
Papers should not exceed 5,000 words in length - including references.
For more detailed instructions on formatting and submitting papers please see website above.

Further Inquiries:

If you have further inquiries relating to the call for papers, please make contact with either:

Tuure Tuunanen
Email: t.tuunanen@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 84622

Eusebio Scornavacca
Email: e.scornavacca@vuw.ac.nz
Phone: +64 4 463 6697

Members

Barcamp mobile

Aaron Davidson, CEO of well known mobile application developer SimWorks, reports on the Barcamp Mobile event held recently in Auckland:

I recently had the pleasure of attending Barcamp Auckland (http://bca.geek.nz/). Those of you that read my post about the Wellington Barcamp Mobile event in April will have some idea about what a barcamp actually is.  For the rest of you, a quick visit to Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp) will bring you into the light!

As with Barcamp Mobile, the Auckland event created value to attendees through channelling the interests and passions of those at the event.  It sounds like a recipe for disaster but somehow it seems to work.

Unlike Barcamp Mobile, the Auckland event had no particular focus at all other than that everyone at the event had some interest in technology. Unsurprisingly, given the iPhone was launched the day prior, there was a lot of discussion and debate around that.

There was certainly plenty at the event to interest both the technical and commercial sides of any organisation.  For my part I had a great time joining in a couple of start-up related sessions, a project planning session and enjoyed leading the session on mobile application development.  Another
member of the team attended many of the esoteric technical sessions and
assures me that they were excellent as well.

Once again I've come away with a host of new contacts and opportunities and picked up a some useful tips.  How Barcamps actually don't just descend into chaos I'm not really sure.  Within the context of a couple of simple rules they just seem to successfully self organise.  So that's two for two for me so far!  Anyone interested in dipping their toes into the barcamp waters need only keep an eye on the barcamp NZ site (http://www.barcamp.org.nz/) for events coming up.

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 See you at Wireless Wednesday on 6th August!