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Hosted by: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
Knowledge Partener: The World Bank |
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| Background and Objective |
| 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:
- Discuss various options and business model to accelerate the development and use of mobile applications across key social and economic sectors.
- Share experiences on formulating innovative public private partnership models for accelerating economic and social development enabled by advanced convergence opportunities.
- Discuss International scenario and case studies to help India leapfrog for effectively using mobile governance.
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| The tentative agenda for “National Forum on Mobile Applications for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development” is given below: |
- High level overview of Mobile Applications
- Key trends and opportunities in 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.
- Present e-Governance Framework in India
- Success of Citizen Service Centers, Tele-centers and Village Knowledge Centers Models.
- E-Governance using mobile platform
- International Experience in development of Mobile application to provider public services and challenges.
- Existing initiatives in mobile government and the learning experiences
- 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.
- Present scenario in Developed counties
- Existing framework for m-commerce in India
- Technical & Regulatory issues in m-Commerce
- Tele-medicine & e-Health applications.
- Framework for e-Health Applications
- Country specific case studies
- Mobile applications for Education, Agriculture etc.
- Rural Specific applications
- Challenges in implementing these applications on mobile platform
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| * PARTICIPATION AT THE FORUM IS RESTRICTED BY INVITATION AND PRIOR CONFIRMATION. |
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