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IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Access and Diversity
Main theme question address by workshop: Question 9: Mobile access: what it takes to create opportunities for entrepreneurs, youth and developing country stakeholders?
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
The emerging of a series of new communications concepts and applications as the next generation mobile communication technology, mobile Internet and mobile Internet of things are profoundly changing people's lives. By owning a mobile phone or handheld computer or any other mobile device, people could access to public and governmental utilities or services, and personal life-related service information and entertainment application, such as SNS, mobile video, mobile games, e-learning, e-reading, e-business, e-government.
At present, China's mobile phone users reached 356 million, and the scale will keep a continuous rapidly growth. It is reported that the innovation of Chinese mobile Internet application is very active in the app store (613,445 apps) and the application growth rate ranks first in the world in 2011, stepping into the world's second largest market. In the U.S., 44 percent of universities and their libraries and 34 percent of public libraries have already offered mobile services to the public for smart phones and pad devices.
On the other hand, issues of the charge of Internet access, network infrastructure, network security, trust have also become barriers to hinder the development of the industry. The high charge of 3G service and low speed lowers down the penetration and development. And taking another example, the mobile Internet market has not yet formed a complete industrial chain in China that the demand for mobile security is not yet clear. This is the main reason why the mobile security industry could not attract much attention.
How to avoid weaknesses and to strengthen technical application’s innovation and reform in order to promote the development of the industry, and seek for the opportunities through challenges, we hope that by organizing the Best Practice forum, to invite related businesses and industry experts to share best practices, and discuss and explore how to create a better development environment for mobile Internet industry.
Background Paper: Background Paper.doc
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Internet Society of China，Civil Society
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
- Mr. Xinmin Gao, Vice Preisident, Internet Society of China
- Mr. Yongfu Yu, CEO, UC Mobile Ltd.
- ChinaMobile
- Tencent
- Microsoft
- Apple
Name of Remote Moderator(s):
TBD