[UgaBYTES] Invitation to ISPAI Conference - “BWA – The Empowerment Way” on 27th January, 2010 at New Delhi

[priyanka at defindia.net]

New Delhi, January 20, 2010. 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 tele-medicine 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.

About ISPAI

The Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) was set up
in 1998 with a mission to 'Promote Internet/Broadband for the benefit of
all'. ISPAI is the collective voice of the ISP fraternity and by
extension the entire Internet community. Over the years ISPAI has helped
influence, shape and mould the telecom policies, so that ISPs and
entrepreneurs in the business of Internet/Broadband can setup and grow
their services in an environment that is supportive and enabling.

ISPAI works closely with the Government, the Regulator as well as the
major Industry Chambers. It supports exchange of delegations, business
visitors from across the globe which provides ISP members a chance to
network widely and seek opportunities elsewhere too. ISPAI is a platform
for the Solution Provider's community such as Hardware and Software
manufacturer's and suppliers to gain easy access to their ISP clients,
promote their products and services through personal meetings and
through events supported or sponsored by ISPAI. 

For Further information:

Mr. Puneet Tiwari
Director, ISPAI
9811304099 e-mail: info at ispai.in <mailto:info at ispai.in> 

Kind regards & best wishes

Naresh Ajwani
Secretary
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