Baltic States – CIS, Education and Science, Estonia, Technology, Telecomunications

Vladimir Funtikov.

Funtikov's company Creative Mobile has developed several world-famous mobile games; the entrepreneur himself studied Information technologies in Tallinn University of Technology.

Funtikov currently negotiates possible introduction of such subject with Estonia's higher education establishment.

Some schools in Holland have already been teaching mobile gaming, as the entrepreneur said.

"We have offered [to one of Estonia’s universities] that our professionals could teach mobile gaming classes in exchange of being able to recruit new employees once the students graduate,” said Funtikov.

At present Creative Mobile employs about 60 people, but it needs to recruit workers from Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine.

The company has in two years created about ten games for mobile phones. In a single day, between 1.5 million and 1.7 million people play one of the games developed by Creative Mobile. Of them, 40 percent are in US and another 40 percent in Asia, as BBN says.