Ajit Jaokar

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Ajit Jaokar believes in a pragmatic but open Mobile Data industry – a vision which he fosters through his blog OpenGardens (www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com).

The OpenGardensBlog was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide by readers of ‘Fierce wireless’. It is also syndicated on the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative/ Planet Mobile (http://www.w3.org/Mobile/planet )

Ajit is the co-author of the book 'Mobile web 2.0' (http://www.mobileweb20.futuretext.com/ ) and is also a member of the web2.0 workgroup

Currently, he plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia.

His recent talks have included:

• Keynote at O Reilly Web20 expo(April 2007) :
• 3GSM – talk on Mobile Web 2.0
• Keynote at Java One (Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior’s panel)
• European parliament (Electronic Internet Foundation)
• Stanford University’s Digital visions program (http://www.rdvp.org/)
• MIT Sloan – Web 2.0 and Mobile beyond

Technical presentations have included
• IMS World in Monaco http://www.informatm.com/newt/l/imsvision/worldforum
• Ajax world in Santa Clara and New York http://www.ajaxworldexpo.com

Media appearances include
• CNN money
• The BBC digital planet
• The Scoble show

Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0 and User generated content at Oxford University.

He is the founder and CEO of a publishing company – Futuretext (http://www.futuretext.com ).

Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is a member of the RSA

He is currently doing a Phd on Identity and Reputation systems at UCL(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/) in London