Matt Jones, designer at Nokia, speaks about the opportunities to design mobile games based on physical activities, motions and mobility.

Because of a technical issue, the sound starts around 13 minutes. Sorry Matt, and sorry to you all for that. That speech - voted one of the top 5 talk at Lift06 - is worth watching even if it is only for the final 10 minutes that have sound!

Our friends at CERN are presenting a very interesting lecture on Oct. 26th in Geneva:

The Citizen Cyberscience Lectures

Mobile phones and Africa: a success story
Dr. Mo Ibrahim, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Time: 14:00-15:30, 26 October 2009
Place: Main Auditorium, CERN

The Citizen Cyberscience Lectures are hosted by the partners of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, CERN, The UN Institute of Training and Research and the University of Geneva. The goal of the Lectures is to provide an inspirational forum for participants from the various international organizations and academic institutions in Geneva to explore how information technology is enabling greater citizen participation in tackling global development challenges as well as global scientific research.

The first Citizen Cyberscience Lectures will welcome two speakers who have both made major innovative contributions in this area.

Dr. Mo Ibrahim, founder of Celtel International, one of Africa’s most successful mobile network operators, will talk about how the introduction of mobile phones in Africa has created jobs and enriched the social lives of citizens, as well as supporting civil society and advancing the cause of democracy.

Dr. Alpheus Bingham, founder of InnoCentive, a Web-based community that solves industrial R&D challenges, will describe examples of citizens outside a targeted field of expertise providing unique solutions to challenging scientific problems.

The Citizen Cyberscience Lectures are open and free of charge. Participants from outside CERN must register to be able to access CERN.

To register contact Yasemin Hauser (Yasemin.Hauser [at] cern.ch).

For more information visit the lecture's website.

Takeshi Natsuno "Upcoming trends in mobile services" (Lift Asia 08 EN)

Takeshi Natsuno, the father of the first, functioning, successful, large-scale wireless internet system, Japan's i-Mode described his perspective and trends on mobile services for the near future.

Juliana Rotich, an author, blogger and digital activist with Global Voices Online in Kenya, talks about citizen journalism in African countries. Starting from web examples, she then describes the value of mobile applications in this domain. Her presentation gives a broad overview of the issues at stake in mobile activism/journalism.

Frank Beau, an independent researcher specialized in new media, talks about the "Metromantics" project. He basially describes the findings of a study of internet messages about romantic encounters in Paris' metro and show the sociological implications of such behaviors.

Juliana Rotich, an author, blogger and digital activist with Global Voices Online in Kenya, talks about citizen journalism in African countries. Starting from web examples, she then describes the value of mobile applications in this domain. Her presentation gives a broad overview of the issues at stake in mobile activism/journalism.

We have partnered with Mobify.Me to bring you a mobile version of our website. Point your browser to m.liftconference.com and you will see a site optimized for iPhone, but also Blackberry, Android and Sony Ericsson!

As the wifi traditionally fails miserably during every single conference happening on this planet, this will allow you to connect to our site and get the most important information regardless of the situation.

At Lift Asia 08 designer Raphaël Grignani explained how sustainability can be taken into account in the design of mobile phones. How to avoid wasting energy? How to recycle material to create mobile devices? How to encourage people to keep things longer? Raphael discusses these questions and shows the "Homegrown" project Nokia Design conducted recently: new designs to automatically switch off the charger after the phone is charged, creating a culture of "caring" among phone users, and turning material waste into beautiful mobile phones.

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At Lift Asia 08 designer Raphaël Grignani explained how sustainability can be taken into account in the design of mobile phones. How to avoid wasting energy? How to recycle material to create mobile devices? How to encourage people to keep things longer? Raphael discusses these questions and shows the "Homegrown" project Nokia Design conducted recently: new designs to automatically switch off the charger after the phone is charged, creating a culture of "caring" among phone users, and turning material waste into beautiful mobile phones.

Jury Hahn is the co-founder of MegaPhone, a gaming company based in New York which makes real-time multi-player games on cell phones. Jury explains the potential of mobile gaming, and how phones can allow rich public interactions. She then demos MegaPhone's gaming platform and Lift participants go wild and play against one other :)

I have no idea why Google put me in the video thumbnail, if someone knows how to change that I'm happy to hear your solution :)