The Challenge of Sustaining App Entrepreneurs

Chris Locke is Managing Director of the GSMA Mobile for Development Department. The Mobile for Development Department works with the mobile industry globally to build services that have a development impact for the poorest people in the world. Chris has spent the past 15 years working in the mobile and internet industries, for companies such as the Virgin Group, Three, AOL, and T-Mobile. Previous to his career in industry, he was the Xerox Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London, and he has maintained strong links to the research community, including being the editor of Thumbculture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones in Society, an anthology of research on the global social impact of mobile technology.