Location : International Telecommunication Union, Geneva
More than 3 billion people have access to basic mobile telephony, with 48% living close or below the poverty line. What are the applications that bring the best opportunities for economic and social development ? They help users find employment, advertise services, receive market prices, transfer money and pay for goods. To provide access to basic communications they can rent phones, chargers, and sell pre-paid cards. If you’re interested in how mobile phones, used socially, are changing the face of the planet – and in particular developing countries – then join us and discuss you experiences, ideas and knowledge.
Speakers
- Houlin Zhao – Vice Secretary General of the ITU.
- Lilia Perez-Chavolla, ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau.
- Ken Banks, founder kiwanja.net.
- Jean-Frédéric Wagen HES-SO, Fribourg
- Frank West, Medair.
- Francesco Pisano, Unosat
- Stéphane Koch , owner intelligentzia.net , President of ISOC Geneva.
- Rosa Delgado, ISOC Geneva chapter, SIG development
- Other presentations are welcome and will be announced at the workshop.
Thank you to our sponsors
Good article, the advertisment is sold?
Hi all
Sorry, I’m not able to make the new date of 8th! I did email and tell you, so you might want to remove me from the speakers list.
Hopefully we can make this work another time.
Thanks.
Ken
when will the slides be available from Applications for development?