FYI: Mobiles for Development --- Call for presentation proposals, Innovative Ideas on Mobile Applications for Public Services during e-Gov World 2012

[Ajay Kumar]

FYI!

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From: "Vikas Kanungo" <vikask...@egovindia.org>

Date: November 4, 2011 8:05:44 AM EDT

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Subject: Mobiles for Development --- Call for presentation proposals, Innovative Ideas on Mobile Applications for Public Services during e-Gov World 2012

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Call for Presentation Proposals , Innovative Ideas on Mobile Application for Public Services during e-GovWorld 2012 scheduled on January 19-20 at New Delhi, India

 

Respected Colleague

 

As you are aware, Department of Information Technology, Government of India has recently announced the formulation of National Policy on Mobile Governance. The draft consultation document is hosted on the DIT website at the URL http://www.mit.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/Draft_Consultation_Paper_on_Mobile_Governance_110411.pdf

 

The Society for Promotion of e-Governance has been on the forefront of advocating Mobile Governance for better services to Indian citizens with the first global dialogue held in partnership with e-Development Thematic Group of The World Bank in 2007 chaired by Shri R.Chandrasekhar, Secretary IT, Government of India. The details of the first dialogue on m-Governance conducted during e-Gov World 2007 are available at the URL http://go.worldbank.org/RLCVF90NB0 . Department of IT, Government of India has played a very proactive role during all these years and has now notified the policy on mobile governance. SPeG team has played a prominent role in assisting DIT with the formulation of the policy.

 

With the m-Governance policy to be announced soon, our endeavor now is to help leverage the policy initiative of Indian government assist in identification of key applications, ecosystem building and public private partnership models to enable India gain a leading position in mobile based public service delivery. The focus of e-Gov World 2012 will therefore will be on deliberating on the Innovative Mobile applications for Public Services that can help e-Governance stakeholders in India leapfrog and create state of art m-Governance applications for the citizens.

In this context, we are happy to invite VAS providers, researchers, Telecom Players, IT Players , civil society organizations and all the stakeholders to submit innovative ideas , applications and solutions for presentation during e-Gov World 2012. The selected application developers, VAS providers and researchers will be invited to participate and present during the conference. The best idea/application will be awarded a trophy and cash prize of INR 25,000 as well as opportunity to showcase the applications at Mobile Applications Lounge.

Please rush you entries ASAP to the conference secretariat. The conference details are available at the URL http://www.egovworld.org

For any queries, please contact the undersigned.

 

Warm Regards

Vikas Kanungo

Convener- e-Gov World 2012

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Vikas Kanungo
Founder : The Society for Promotion of e-Governance, India
Chief Editor: Government@24/7
Mobile: +91 9871911448, Email: vikask...@egovindia.org
www.mgovworld.org - Global Observatory on Mobile Government

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Best Regards,

Ajay Kumar

http://aju.bz/me