Mobile Games Interoperability Forum Names Management Board

Vice Chair: Paul Goode of Motorola

Treasurer: Amr Attia of Siemens

Membership Liaison: Bo Nordblom of Ericsson

Technical Liaison: Matti Hamalainen of Codeonline

Marketing Liaison: Anders Storm of Picofun

Certification Activities Liaison: Tony Bickley of Konami

Developer Liaison: Yosuke Yoneda of Capcom The MGIF is a program of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO). It was formed by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens in July 2001 to address the issues of portability and interoperability in the mobile games space. The MGIF specifications will allow game developers to produce and deploy mobile games that can be distributed across multiple game servers and wireless networks, and played over different mobile devices. The MGIF says it will not specify functionality for mobile devices -- it will work with and provide input to appropriate standards bodies and forums to enable an open end-to-end games environment. The MGIF will only define API specifications and will not produce a mobile game platform. In addition from the four founding companies, the MGIF Sponsors are Borland, Capcom, Cash-U Mobile Technologies Ltd., Codeonline, Digital Bridges, iFone, Konami, Metrowerks, Picofun and Terraplay Systems.