Simon David Buckingham (born in Oxford, England) is an
English information society
An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, Content creation, creation, information distribution, distribution, manipulation and information integration, integration of information is a significant activity. Its main drive ...
theorist and the originator of the term "unorganisation".
Buckingham has been based in New York since 2005.
Biography
Buckingham created and published in 1996 the unorganisation philosophy. Subsequently, he became a
serial entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
An entrepreneu ...
.
He founded his first start up in 1999, Mobile Lifestreams, which started out as a research and consulting company.
Buckingham authoring the "Yes 2 SMS" report that accurately predicted the success of the SMS text messaging service. Buckingham registered and launched the domain name and service ringtones.com. Mobile Lifestreams was renamed Mobile Streams and completed its
initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investm ...
in February 2006 (LSE:MOS). At the same time,
Liberty Media
Liberty Media Corporation (commonly referred to as Liberty Media or just Liberty) is an American mass media company founded by John C. Malone in 1991. The company has three divisions, reflecting its ownership stakes in the Formula One Group, S ...
, the U.S. content company became a strategic investor in the company.
In January 2006, Buckingham become the CEO of
Zoombak, a provider of GPS devices and services for family safety and enterprise applications. Zoombak was owned by Liberty Media but managed by Buckingham and Mobile Streams. More than 100,000 Zoombak devices had been shipped by October 2009.
In 2010, Buckingham founded his third start up in New York, Appitalism, an open
app store
An app store, also called an app marketplace or app catalog, is a type of digital distribution platform for computer software called applications, often in a mobile context. Apps provide a specific set of functions which, by definition, do not i ...
, that launched in September 2010 in 51 countries.
In 2019, Buckingham founded his new start up in Florida, Nonvoice, https://www.nonvoice.com, a 5G and Augmenented Reality apps and services company https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/apps-home-banner/app-agency-seeks-to-build-5g-market
which launched many services such as its Alive 5G consumer portal
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2200755/tuc-nonvoice-alive-alliance-deliver-portal-of-5g-ar-apps
References
External links
Unorganization website [archived/nowiki>">rchived">
Unorganization website [archived
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British information theorists
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
British businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
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