Go Mobile: The New Digital Mantra

Smart phones? What about your IPad, IPod, Kindle, Netbook, Laptop,TIp Top, Flip Flop or whatever have you? Companies are running to capture the market with the best product.

Now, when you travel, you end up with a suitcase of wireless devices (with masses or auxilliary wires!!!), chargers (often different for each type of device), batteries and what have you that you need to function in this world of TML. Inside those devices are a host of mobile applications so arcane and perverse as to end enjoyment just in review! But if you pick the apps carefully, they bring you all you need even in Wagadougu.

Yes, with just one device or two, you will be able to talk to the person you need in the office, access all the information in your office files and meet with your suppliers in other countries as well as your own home country. You can read your local newspapers and not miss the match or race your hearts were set to watch that weekend. You can download television stations in your area, your favourite newspapers and movies and whatever you need to make your life seem like home. You can carry a thousand books without ever packing paper. And more are in development.

3-G...4-G...OMG....it is indeed changing fast. You don't have to go home or go to a place with Wi-Fi to get connected. With WiMax, you are connected all the time. And if these acronyms puzzle you...you are slowly sliding under the techno bus and missing a world of wonder. No pressure...you can leapfrog in...but do it soon or your train will be so far out of the station you won't even hear the whistle!

Analysts are saying that by 2015, there will be 20x mobile data and more devices with obscure names and uses than end of party promises. Many companies are now creating mobile applications that enable the mobile workforce not only to be continuously connected to the main office but constant access to key information, data and services to make their mobile lifestyle easier to manage and enable them to be more effective and productive.

Do you need all these things? Probably not , but there are some apps that can change your life.

Mobility has enough fun to make the challenges almost worthwhile. You have to learn how to adapt attitude to fit context, how to give your all but not be attached, how to love the moment and love what you do and discover the possibilities in even obscure applications with guides and references.

You learn to live in the moment (not for the moment ) and enjoy it. Echart Tolle's book, "The Power of Now" comes to mind. You have to sort things out, which ones are necessary and which ones are peripheral. Eventually, you need to let go of so many unnecessary things companies are turning out. Or, you burden yourself with the trashing nightmare.

Right now, technologies and services are in the market to help you with the possible challenges that mobile lifestylers usually experience. Problems with your emails, postal adresses, bill payments? Not to worry. Companies are there to scan these for you, store your mail, deposit cheques and provide an address. You can do most of your banking online, pay bills, order gifts, and receive your favourite magazines and newspapers. All these without getting beholden to any of your family members, friends or helpful neighbors. You are now in the age of mobility. And the market is full of devices and gadgets promising you the world. Remember, the only difference between a rut and the grave is the depth.

Mobile solutions have cropped up recently that certainly are making the lives of the mobile work force much more easy to manage. Not only that.

Mobile solutions are helping companies and mobile workers serve their customers more effectively, manage their companies better, collaborate with colleagues more, communicate with each other more efficiently and close more deals faster.

Mobile solutions are also helping workers easily carry key work information on the road. This enables them to get recent information more easily, information that are often vital to their pursuit of contracts and other business deals improving their effectiveness and speed in conducting their businesses.

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Before you disregard mobile technologies and its applications, read this excerpt:

"The appeal of mobile technologies transcends their ability to simply entertain or connect people to each other. We think they could save lives. Mobile technologies have enormous potential as tools to promote healthy behavioral change, to transform the caregiver-patient relationship, and to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered in the U.S. and around the globe. In fact, mobile technologies are already being used to promote healthy lifestyle changes, encourage patients' active involvement in their treatment, reduce waiting times in doctors' offices, and improve a provider's access to patient information, all with the goal of improving healthcare outcomes."

For some, being physically mobile is a choice. For some, it is a necessity. Many have to leave homes and families to work in other countries. Some for a few years, others for a few months. Whatever the reasons, you are in for a mobile lifestyle. You can be almost anywhere with all the contacts and resources you need to link to work and to family.

This is a major help for those who have to work away from families. Now, with skype and other mobile applications, you can talk to your family without breaking your bank account. You can even talk to them face to face.

Text messages and mobile applications have transformed many of the world's poor. One of the ladies raising vegetables in the rural area of Cambodia just calls or sends a text to the the middleman when her vegetables are ready for harvest. For the first time, she can earn as much as $200 a month, a bonanza for her family.

Mobile penetration at this level has really improved the lives of many poor people. Text messages warn farmers in Uganda of banana rut. This is because of the application developed by Grameen Bank in partnership with Google that delivers information on crop disease and weather and also collects data on farming trends and pass this on to the government. Grameen, in Bangladesh, is developing micro finance applications to support so many women getting loans for small businesses.

Mobile phones are now reaching people in remote areas. They do not anymore have to climb up trees to get phone signals to reach anyone outside of their villages. They can ask questions from experts on their crops using text messages.

Mobile phones have also broken through bureaucracies. People are now texting their local officials when illegal fishing is observed in their waters. Some of these areas now have mobile broadbands rivalling that of rich nations. And families and villages share computers and cell phones and are adapting to these technologies faster.

Mobile phones have indeed, in many poor areas, spurred new programs on education, health, micro-finance and agriculture. They have enhanced the lives of the poor in many countries.

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