Serendipity--when things happen by chance in a happy or beneficial way--does happen, the way the opposite adage--sh** happens--also appears sometimes true.
PTC, the non-profit global membership group I work with, has as its mission advancing the ethical development and use of information and communication technologies. Serendipitously, leading global mobile firms also recently issued a statement of vision called the Digital Declaration.
The declaration emphasizes themes such as participation by everyone in the digital economy, bringing benefits to people and society, privacy protection and responsible conduct that--without using the same word--seeks ethical behavior.
“Those that embrace the principles of the Digital Declaration will strive for business success in ways that seek a better future for their consumers and societies,” said Mats Granryd, Director General GSMA.
Itr is easy enough to dismiss such declarations and mission statements as noble but ineffectual; lofty but mere window dressing; platitudes rather than real guides to behavior. Fair enough.
Still, the serendipity is that the world’s largest advocate for the mobile industry and a relatively small non-profit membership organization promoting communications and computing across the Pacific basin now both have made new declarations of ethical inclusion as they both seek to advance computing and communications across the globe in the 5G and internet of things era.
The companies and organizations believe better communications and computing helps people.
The companies and organizations believe better communications and computing helps people.
As this graph illustrates, a broad range of sustainable development goals including education, health, economy, gender equality, clean water and equality are correlated with mobile adoption.
Serendipity, indeed. “Doing well by doing good” is one of the ways PTC describes the relationship.
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