سومین کنفرانس ارتباطات بوسیله تلفن همراه، برای توسعه در فوریه سال ۲۰۱۲ در دهلی نو برگزار می شود.
( هرچند که شاید ما هنوز به اهمیت این موضوع و پرداختن جدی به آن واقف نشده ایم ولی باید بپذیریم که این تکنولوژی نیز مانند سایر تکنولوژی ها در حوزه ارتباطات به حرکت شتابان خود ادامه داده و تغییرات گریز ناپذیری را به همراه خواهد داشت.)
و اما اصل این خبر به نقل از صفحه گوگل پلاس استاد ارجمند جناب آقای دکتر سپنجی:
Share your idea for a Future application for Development and win a trip to the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication on Development in New Delhi 28-29 February 2012!
Jakob Svensson Jakob.Svensson@kau.se to announcements
Share your idea for a Future application for Development and win a trip to
the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication on Development in
New Delhi 28-29 February 2012!
The future Apps4D challenge focus on the development of mobile phone
applications that in one way or another address the immense challenges our
globe is facing concerning climate change, democracy, health, poverty
reduction and increased livelihood in emerging growth economies.
The rise of mobile communication has been remarkable. By November 2010 over
5.3 billion had access to mobile telephony reaching up to 90 per cent of the
world population. The proliferation of mobile telephony in the emerging
growth economies open up a range of possibilities and new avenues for using
the mobile telephone as a communication platform for change. Examples to
date range from telemedicine to report and monitor malaria outbreaks, in
agriculture, for mobile money, to learn languages, reinforce literacy and
educate populations about diseases as well as to monitor elections, fight
corruption and mobilize support for social and political change.
During the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Communication for
Development (M4D2010) held in Kampala Uganda, the delegates agreed on a
statement encouraging all stakeholders to fully consider the potential for
mobile phones to support development (see http://m4d.humanit.org). The
statement concludes that it is our common responsibility to turn this into
reality, but that we need to work in partnership.
In line with the above, and in connection to the 3rd International
Conference on Mobile Communication on Development scheduled to take place in
New Delhi 28-29 February 2012, Nokia invites people to share ideas, connect
and collaborate on future moblie phone applications for development.
The future Apps4D Challenge allows participants to:
• Create ideas
• Evolve current ideas to ensure they meet their potential
• Learn from experts and one another
• Find people with similar interests and areas of expertise
• Link people with needs, ideas and the skills to act on them
Timeline:
Begins: December 1, 2011 at 09.00am EET (GMT+2)
Ends: February 10, 2012 at 5pm EET (GMT+2)
Challenge hosts:
Heli Haapkylä (Nokia)
Jakob Svensson (HumanIT and Vice Conference Chair for the M4D2012
conference)
Panel of Judges:
Jeff Aresty - IBO, the Internet Bar Organization), Aresty International Law
Offices
Ken Banks - Founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS
Ruha Devanesan - the Internet Bar Organisation- IBO
Hamza Fakher - STRESCOM, Strategic Research & Communication, Centre –
informed insights on Syria
Torbjörn Fredriksson - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD)
Sanjana Hattotuwa - TED Fellow, Senior Researcher at Centre for Policy
Alternatives, Founder and Co-Curator, Groundviews
Johan Hellström - SPIDER, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing
Regions, Upgraid
Gregory Elphinston - Nokia, Corporate Relations & Responsibility
Mbugua Njihia - Mobile Monday, Kenya Chapter), Safaricom Innovation, Mobile
Marketing Association (East Africa), Symbiotic Media Consortium
Hilda Moraa (Ushahidi)
Rewards:
The two winning ideas, recognized by the panel of judges, will be awarded
with a trip offered by Nokia to New Delhi to present the winning ideas in a
session convened by Nokia at the 2012 M4D conference. Nokia will cover the
airfares, hotel costs as well as registration fee to the conference. In
consideration of the nature of the reward which entails travelling only
participants who are legally adult and of majority age in their own country
will be entitled to the reward.
Jakob Svensson, Ph. D.
Director HumanIT (www.kau.se/en/humanit)
Ass. Prof. in Media and Communication Studies
Karlstad University
65188 Karlstad - Sweden
+ 46 (0) 54 700 1893
jakob.svensson@kau.se
http://m4d.humanit.org