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Theme


Summit 2011

Target 8 South Asian CountriesUnder 11 Broad categoriesHaving 6 Parallel Summit sessions& 7 Roundtable discussionsReceived 250+ Nominees/21 Winners-(mBillionth) Showcase 60+ Live demonstrationsHonor 10 Social Media appreciationsReceived 60 Nominees/2 winners- (M4G)Provide 20 Lacs INR fund support for winners (M4G)


The company of all the other eminent jurors made it such a joy to be there and finally even if those 2 days had extended, i am sure everyone on the team would have gone on without so much as a whimper. Loved it. Thanks to ICTA the Host and mBillionth Awards.

Amitabh SinghalDirector – Telxess Consulting Services (P) Ltd., Board Director – .ORG, the Public Interest Registry

Partners

2011


Bringing in fresh perspectives and driving home the point that this new medium of communication is one that answers most problems policy faces today in reaching out to all strata of society.”

Dr. Amir Ullah KhanDeputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

How it is

an

Ecosystem


An Ecosystem


Platform


Broad Areas

coveredBusiness & EnterpriseBankingInfrastructureTravel & TourismCulture & HeritageEnvironmentAgricultureWomenNews & JournalismGovernance


Mobile phone is not limited to talking only. You can keep money in the bank, as well as purchase your favorite clothes using the mobile phone. To make life easier innovative ideas have been adopted. To appreciate these ideas by mBillionth Award is an incredible initiative !!!

Mr. S M Ashraf KhanCEO, Multimedia Content & Communications Ltd, Bangladesh

Mentors Mr. Madan Mohan Rao,

Research Project Director, Mobile Monday

Mr. Ashis Sanyal, Former Senior Director (e-Governance), Department of IT, Government of India

Mr. Rajen Varada, CEO Labournet & Founder, TFTP

Mr. Osama Manzar , Founder & Director, Digital empowerment Foundation

Mr. Amitabh Singhal, Telxess consulting Service Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Amir Ullah Khan, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates foundation


This is one of the platform which can bring them to the core and encourage them to do more to change and shape the world to a new dimension. Mobility is one segment which can reach fast to all segment of the pyramid. I hope its only through awards like this, individuals and companies can be honored and recognized.”

Mr. Sinnathamby ShanmugarajahCTO, Microimage Mobile Media, Sri Lanka

Initiatives

Partnership with Vodafone India FoundationInitiated ‘Mobiles for Good’Explore & Invite Registered NGOs & NPOs working for Social Impact using Mobile PhonesM4G: Honor 2 winners out of 60 valid Nominations from IndiaProvide 20 lacs Fund support to the winnersVisit the Winners project site on regular basis to ensure the progress of Project in an effective & efficient manner


The mBillionth Award is a great platform to demonstrate the power of mobile and recognise the talents of those who are able to deploy ICT in innovative ways to help build the digital divide and create new opportunities for Indian society at large. The power of mobile in creating sectors”

Laura TurkingtonDirector– Vodafone India Foundation

Initiatives

Partnership with Vodafone India FoundationInitiated ‘Women and Innovation Award’Explore & Invite Mobile applications creating impact & benefiting Women in the societyWIN: Honor 3 winners out of 60 valid nominationsProvide 44 lacs Fund support to the winners


Getting insights to truly original mobile applications addressing a wide variety of localized needs of this region was an impressive start of the jury process. During the jury process, how collective decision making was made, blending different perspectives in an objective way was indeed praiseworthy. Overall a great experience!

Manjula DissanayakeVP – Global Operations| ZONE24X7

Initiatives

Partnership with VodafoneExplore & Inviting people to Create Mobile appsSponsorship provided for the innovators to build the appsLaunch & promote them through vodafone market placeEnhance the apps through funding & supporting Innovators


From witnessing applications that were innovations in their own right to those that impacted millions of people, actually “changing lives”, the experience told me that inspite of being part of a huge mobile-app churning organization, there is so much we have to learn still.

Mr. Karan GambhirGeneral Manager, One97 Communications Ltd.

Initiatives

Partnership with Spice digital initiative EkSochSeed the concept of mPowerForumInvite Ideas/Concepts from IndiaChoose ideas sound Socially Impactful & Commercially viableSupport Incubation support to nurture the applications Provide Mentors to the innovators to develop a sustainable modelSupport in provide a network using which the application can be launched in the Market


Personally I look forward for those days when these award wining applications get converted into successful value-added commercial applications and services.”

Mr Ashis SanyalFormer Sr. Director, Ministry of Comm & IT, Gov of India

Initiatives

Partnership with OnMobileA PPP model for the empowerment of Unreached massesInitiated Digital Literacy ProgramPartners like Ministry of IT,Govt. of IndiaMany Device Players & Telco Players joined in for this initiativeSupport in providing resources for idea implementation


Its wonderful to be part of a jury process which help recognize best mobile application innovations. I was moved by some of the thinking which actually help real needed people on the ground.”

Mr. Sanjaya KarunasenaChief Technology Officer, ICTA, Sri Lanka

Sustainable

Model

mBillionth Award has been renowned as first of its kind initiative in the Telecom space of south Asia region.An aim to make mBillionth a Sustainable Intelligence Model to cover aspects of Awareness, Social Vibrancy & Economic Prosperity A Bunch of supporters includes names like-

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The mBillionth awards is unique with just this mission bringing together people with a spectrum of experiences in both public and private life to broad base evaluation. Being part of the jury was both intense and a pleasure.

Mr. Chirag JainVice President, Carrier Relations (India), SMS GupShup

Proposal for

mBillionth 2012

This year we again would like to invite you to join us at mBillionth Award 2012 platform to honor excellence in the Mobile & Telecom Space of South Asia. Join us as:

Nominee/AttendeeJury MemberFinancial Sponsors (Details in next slide)Mentoring the innovative AppsVenture Capitalist for new apps

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Thank You


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