Dear Colleagues I am writing to you regarding Global mobileGov Awards 2018 - this year we have an academic contributions category for reputed researchers whose contribution to any areas of eGovernment and mGovernment has been significant. Could you please nominate anyone you deem appropriate or self-nominate by writing to me directly or to the conf@m4life.org? Please see and feel free to forward the Summit info below. Looking forward to your responses, thank you in advance. Best wishes Kushchu ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov UK http://mgovernment.net/ <http://www.mgovernment.org/> ik@mgovernment.net +44 7740143135 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org *mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018* This year’s main theme of mobileGovWS2018 is mindfulGovernments: how public sector IT and service delivery to citizens are influenced by the mobile and artificial Intelligence technologies. As is the tradition, we do not just ‘organise’ a conference but we establish connections among like-minded professionals and organisations to create ‘value’ in making technology to best serve the nations and the needs of the citizens. *The Agenda* - Mindful Governments : The main theme of this year’s mGovWS - How artificial intelligence and machine learning may help to create mindful service delivery to citizens? Find out more and learn about new approaches to intelligence in the public sector domain. - mGov Summit aims to be the largest gathering of the mGovernment professionals in The World so far. - Mobile Industry, Public Sector, NGOs, and Researchers to discuss and share achievements and challenges of the - High level public sector delegations from best performing countries to share their experiences and lessons learned in implementing mobile government. - Exhibitions and showcases of mobile government services, mobile apps, devices, content, and other solutions by public and private sector organizations, NGOs and academia. - 2nd Global mGov Awards will be presented to best public sector implementation, industry solution, mobile app or mobile service as academic researchers. *Global mGov Awards* Global Mobile Government Awards is a worldwide contest aiming to promote advances in the field, and share knowledge on recent developments. Innovative best practices and research in the field of Mobile Government are invited. *Exhibitions* - An opportunity to set your presence at a leading and one of the most respected conference on mobile technologies as used by the public sector. - You will interact with professionals from public and private sectors, mobile industry value chain and researchers. - This is a prime event to promote your organization to a focused audience and demonstrate your solutions and applications in the field of mobileGovernment. *Who attends?* This summit is a unique meeting hub for renown experts and organisations of the mGovernment practice, delegates, around 250, are: - Public sector -high-level decision makers, policy makers and other professionals such as developers or implementers of mobile technologies. - Private Sector Industry members from, for example, mobile telco`s, infrastructure, hardware, content, applications and service providers to the public sector. - NPOs: Civil Society Organization and Innovative Researchers *Previous events, sponsors and supporters: * - 2005 Euro mGOV 2005 – European Conference Mobile Government, Brighton UK - 2006 Euro mGOV 2006 – Barcelona, Spain - 2008 – 2013 mLIfe Conferences– Euro mGOV, mDevelopment and mSociety Conferences, Brighton UK - 2017 mobileGov World Summit & Global mobileGov Awards, Brighton, UK The organisation is seeking highly qualified speakers and experts to give talks and tutorials and propose panels or special sessions to be part of the next mobileGovWS2018 as well nominations for the Global mobileGov Awards.