ISPAI is organizing a day long Conference on ?BWA ? The Empowerment Way? to discuss various dimensions of BWA, on 27th January at Hotel The Lalit, Barakhamba Lane, Connaught Place, New Delhi, India, starting from 0930 hrs. The conference would provide an excellent platform to interact with the stake holders, decisions makers from the ISPs, Telecom/VAS Industry and also, from the Government/Regulator.
Broadband and BWA are the catalysts for The National e-Governance Plan of Govt. of India (NeGP) which seeks to make all government services accessible to the general population through common service delivery outlets, thereby, ensuring efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.
Mr. Rajesh Chharia, President, ISPAI said, “BWA could be a very effective tool to empower people of India specially Rural by providing them public utility services online thereby curbing the corruption and saving precious time and resources”.
In societal applications, the focus areas of Broadband include e-education, e-health, and e-governance. It can be an effective tool in empowering our rural community. Commercial applications are about entertainment on demand, e-commerce, and business applications. ?BWA would only facilitate VAS such as telemedicine and e-education for our country,? said Mr. Naresh Ajwani, Secretary, ISPAI.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the quality of governance and the quality of services delivered by the government are more important today than before. Nasscom, India’s trade body and chamber of commerce for the country’s IT-BPO industry, adds that the government needs to implement a nation-wide skills development program and leverage IT expertise to enable education and impart employable skills. IT can facilitate skills building at a national level, making people more employable. Technologies such as telepresence and videoconferencing can be used to broadcast lectures given by professors across India to overcome the scarcity of good teachers in rural and semi-urban areas. This will have a multiplier effect on the economy.
BWA, WiMax, Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL), Metro Ethernet and other such rollouts, would provide India’s economy with the necessary infrastructure and direct impetus to various knowledge and service sectors. Even sectors like manufacturing and banking and financial services (BFSI), stand to benefit immensely from these technologies, given the increasingly distributed and multi-location character of such enterprises.
Leading ISPs/Vendors, VAS Providers, Technology Facilitators, Industry Experts, Policy Makers both, in government as well as the Industry, would participate and share their vision on the Challenges, Technology innovations and Opportunities in the BWA Arena. The conference shall be webcast live on Internet and can be reviewed subsequently.
Broadband Wireless Access is amongst the highest growing segments in the world. BWA has the potential to reduce the socio-economic gap and the out-migration by improving the quality of life and empowering people. Countries like India, where broadband penetration is the lowest and negligible in the rural areas, BWA would provide with a huge opportunity for the Service Providers to curb the gap. It has the potential to replicate the success story of Mobile for Broadband Services in India.