[Ict4devwg] [India] Invitation to participate/present during World Bank workshop on Mobile Applications - Foresight for next generation of e-Services for Inclusive Development

[Vern Weitzel]

Subject: 	[bytesforall_readers] Invitation to participate/present during
World Bank workshop on Mobile Applications - Foresight for next
generation of e-Services for Inclusive Development
Date: 	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:09:09 +0530
From: 	Vikas Kanungo <vikaskanungo at egovindia.org>
Reply-To: 	bytesforall_readers at yahoogroups.com
Organization: 	The Society for promotion of e-Governance
To: 	<vikaskanungo at rediffmail.com>





Mobile Applications: Foresight for next generation of e-Services for
inclusive development

*Innovative Applications in **India** and Abroad*

  *Background*

Mobile Government is fast becoming the next inevitable e-direction for
the m-government, m-education and m-health practices. One of the reasons
for this is the spread and success of mobile/wireless applications and
services all around the world. This provides an opportunity for the
governments, industry and academia to exploit these new developments and
enhance m-services implementations and enable the paradigm shift towards
inclusive services for the next generation.

Many countries in the world are implementing mobile based solutions for
enhancing the reach of public services to a larger section of the
society especially the people in the remote areas. Many innovative
application deployed across the world can serve as good practice
examples for other countries planning to deploy mobile solutions for
enabling Government at 24/7.

The World Bank’s ‘India e-Development Thematic Group’ is planning a
workshop on *July 26, 2009* *at The World Bank Office from **10.00 am**
to **4.00 pm* for discussing the potential of mobile applications.
Participants will include practitioners from government, NGOs, academia,
telecom companies and application services providers. The workshop will
include presentations on innovative applications/initiatives and special
research based presentations based on the state of development in this
field. The deliberations in this workshop will serve to enhance the
awareness and understanding about the tremendous potential of mobile,
wireless and new media technologies in transforming the delivery of
information and transaction services to citizens in future.

The India e-Development Thematic Group is also planning to prepare a
compendium of the innovative mobile applications/ initiatives in India
and abroad which will be shared with the participants of the workshop as
a resource document. Selected initiatives / applications will be
provided an opportunity to make presentations and share experiences
during the workshop. In case your organization is involved in
development or implementation of mobile based innovative initiatives in
the following domains, please send information on the initiative to the
undersigned  :

§         Inclusive Financial Services

§         m- Public services

§         m-learning/education services

§         m-heath services

§         m-agriculture services;

Information on selected initiatives will be included in the resource
document to be distributed to the participants of the workshop.

PS: If you would like to present your application/initiative during the
workshop, please send one page abstract to the undersigned at
vikaskanungo at egovindia.org <mailto:vikaskanungo at egovindia.org> latest by
June 20,2009.

Warm Regards

Vikas Kanungo

Consultant - GICT, The World Bank


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