Mobile Commerce Conference In Pakistan
Here’s another sign that ICT industry in Pakistan is maturing. The first Mobile Commerce conference is being held in Karachi on April 2 2008. The event has a star-studded guest list which includes PTA Chief, mobile companies Mobilink, Warid and Telenor (CEOs will attend), mobile commerce companies such as Amaana, Inov8, senior management from banks (both commercial and State Bank) and a few foreign company executives. Full details are available in this pdf brochure. You can also take a quick look at the image to see participating companies.
The sessions are well planned and include topics such as environment for mobile commerce, role of telcos, micro-finance, security and risk management, new trends and challenges. I expect it to be a very interesting and useful event.
I am looking for feedback about this conference and would appreciate if anyone can share observations and thoughts.
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Hi there,
… attended the conference, it was good but as it was 1st conference on Mobile commerce so it lacked a main point of view. I also think it was a little before time as no one had answers to certain queries, not even Chairman PTA. Chairman PTA said that We must go fast and no matter if there would be a few cases of frauds in this regard, we should not be very careful and slow down.
It is not yet decided that would it be or should it be a Bank led model or Operator led. Seriously talking, i don’t see any prominent role of Mobile Operators in this regard as they can’t just open up a separate business unit for payment settlements etc.