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National Forum on Mobile Applications for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development
| What | Convention |
|---|---|
| When |
2010-04-07 08:30
to 2010-04-09 14:00 |
| Where | New Delhi, India |
| Contact Name | Vikas Kanungo |
| Contact Email | vikaskanungo@egovindia.org |
| Contact Phone | +919871911448 |
| Attendees | Key government officers from all the states from India, global mobile applications and regulations experts, industry players, academia and civil society organization. |
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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is working on conceptualizing a framework for next generation reforms for leveraging the potential of mobile/wireless technologies and new media for information enabled inclusive growth and sustainable development. The purpose of the initiative is to appraise the stakeholders of global developments in mobile governance and other citizen centric applications of mobile & new media technologies and to build the capacity of various government agencies in implementing inclusive e-Governance projects. Accordingly TRAI is organizing a National Forum on Mobile Applications during 7th to 9th April, 2010 in New Delhi with The World Bank as the Knowledge Partner. In addition to the government agencies and other stakeholders in India, experts and practitioners from various parts of the world are invited to share their experiences with the participants during the three days deliberations. The call for papers for the conference is now open.
Background and Objectives
India’s telecommunication revolution has led to total tele-density crossing 46 percent. With over 506 million mobile subscribers and growing at approximately 10 million per month, mobile networks have now become country’s largest distribution platform, promising to deliver information and public services to the masses through innovative applications. The mobile platforms world over are being used to provide financial and banking services, agriculture information, health services, telemedicine and e-education in rural and remote areas. The initiatives to provide various services using mobile applications have already started in India. m-Applications potential can be leveraged to boost social and economic activities, governance, and enhance government citizen interaction. For this transformation to be inclusive and beneficial for the under-privileged and rural populations, innovative and new models of public private partnership need to be formulated and deployed.
In order to stimulate and accelerate developments of mobile applications, TRAI is organizing a National Forum to deliberate on the next generation reforms for leveraging the potential of mobile/wireless technologies and new media for information enabled inclusive growth and sustainable development. The proposed national forum will aim to:
(a) Discuss various options and business model to accelerate the development and use of mobile applications across key social and economic sectors.
(b) Share experiences on formulating innovative public private partnership models for accelerating economic and social development enabled by advanced convergence opportunities.
(c) Discuss International scenario and case studies to help India leapfrog for effectively using mobile governance.
The tentative agenda for “National Forum on Mobile Applications for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development” is given below:
- High level overview of Mobile Applications
Social & Economic impact
Implementing various models for mobile application
Successful mobile application model
- Present status of e-Governance practices and synergy required for Mobile governance
Success of Citizen Service Centers, Tele-centers and Village Knowledge Centers Models.
E-Governance using mobile platform
- International Experience in development of Mobile application for public services and challenges
Demonstration of applications and solutions
Ideas for building Open and interoperable business models for mobile government
Multi channel delivery of public services
Payment models for enabling mobile transactions
- Mobile banking & m-Commerce and related issues
Existing framework for m-commerce in India
Technical & Regulatory issues in m-Commerce
- Tele-medicine & e-Health applications.
Country specific case studies
- Mobile applications for Education, Agriculture etc.
Challenges in implementing these applications on mobile platform