The 14 members Grand Jury of the mBillionth South Asia Award 2010 struggled 3 days in Colombo to find 24 best practices across 10 categories hailing from 8 South Asian countries. The Jury held during June 9 – 13, 2010, in Colombo hosted by ICTA Sri Lanka and complemented by one day South Asian Mobile…
MOBILE SOUTH ASIA CONGRESS An exciting lineup of speakers from the mobile industries, as well as other industries and sectors will be touched by the mobile market, including entertainment and education. Conference will be held in multiple parallel thematic sessions in all 11 categories with panel of speakers, presenters and participants will be from mobile…
EXHIBITION
m-Billionth South Asia International Conclave- Award Gala will have 1 day content & services exchange-cum-exhibition of digital innovations and applications from India and South Asia. This exhibition will have display of product and services from the exhibitors cutting across the entire mobile gamut of producers, service providers, and application developers and so on. Visiting the…
AWARD GALA
Highlighting the Best of the mobile applications, instrument and service delivery- Mobile South Asia Congress will host the annual mBillionth Mobile Awards, which will recognise outstanding offerings in 11 categories, covering topics from governance, entertainment, education and health etc. to innovation and contributions to socio-economic development.
AWARD BENEFITS
Stimulate innovation and creativity Provide recognition and a platform for the benchmarking of innovations in the mobile industry Provide participants with networking opportunities so that strategic business alliances can be formed Exposure to investment opportunities, venture capitalists and investors Create a larger pool of knowledge workers that is essential for the development of the mobile…
m-Travel & Tourism
Use of Mobile and complementing applications and embedded services for enriching the information society by aggregating digital content pertaining to travel and tourism thus help creating knowledge rich information society; offer of travel and tourism related information and services like real time travel bookings, location and transport information, including through GPS and GIS.
The Jury Process
Each Award Category will be judged by a Panel of Jury. The jury comprised of eminent personalities from the private and public sector, industries and the academia, and is selected based on their knowledge and expertise. The Jury Process Consist of: The process commences from the date of closing of nominations. The criteria set out…
Juror’s Evaluation Criteria
Content: quantify matching quality of content and services delivery, relevance of content and its utility value Interface: usability, user friendly, easy surfing features, interactive nature Technical specialty: Innovative design with unique features of applications having user appealing features Design: Design of applications and devises having larger user preference, aesthetic value with multimedia and other features…
m-News & Journalism
Use of Mobile and complementing applications and embedded services for (multi-lingual) news broadcasting in all possible media format like text, audio, video, SMS, MMS, etc.; Reaching masses and enabling people with mobile devices for citizen journalism for local and regional news through interactive applications like twitter, facebook, and other web 2.0 mobile enabled applications including…
m-Inclusion
Use of Mobile and complementing applications and embedded services for supporting integration haves and have-nots – individuals, groups, differently abled citizens, women and children; remote locations, regions into the Information Society. Reducing the "digital divide" and "content gap" between technology-empowered and technology excluded communities; bridging society through basic, simple and also multimedia-enabled rich content.