m Powering the Nations Ibrahim Kushchu MBA MSc

m. Powering the Nations Ibrahim Kushchu, MBA, MSc, Ph. D Associate Professor Director Mobile Government Consortium International UK www. mgovernment. org ik@aykey. net Ik@mgovernment. org

Background & Research Interests D. PHIL in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Evolutionary Learning and Generalisation, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS), University of Sussex, UK. MSc in Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Based Systems, University of Edinburgh, UK. MBA Decision Support Systems for Strategic Management, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. CURRENT RESEARCH Mobile Government and Mobile Society Evolutionary and adaptive intelligent systems for e. Business applications

Mobile Government Consortium is a leading organisation promoting Mobile Government (m. Government) as a field of practice and research. It aims to bring together academics, public and private sector professionals, who work together to understand analyse the current developments and to shape the future developments in m. Government. If your work falls in e-governmnet, mobile business or mobile government, we would like to hear from you. http: //www. mgovernment. org/index. html mgci@mgovernment. org

Outline ¡ Introducing m. Government l ¡ Drivers of m. Government m. Powering l l l Individuals The society, and The economies m. Development ¡ Challenges and future directions ¡ Conclusions ¡

From e. Gov to m. Gov Wireless Web Wired WAP/GPRS/3 G One-Stop Web e-Gov portal Central Government operations and services Local Government operations Local and services Local Government operations and services

Mobile Government ¡ ¡ ¡ it is the strategy and its implementation involving the utilization of all kinds of wireless and mobile technology, services, applications and devices for improving benefits to the parties involved in egovernment including citizens, businesses and all government units A fertile field of research and practice An inevitable direction of e. Gov, which will naturally follow…

Mobile Government: applications Transaction Bill/loan payments Fine payments Charges payments e. Mail/SMS Enforcement Law enforcement Safety/ Health Inspections Permissions Integration Information/communicat ion Gov news updates Traffic/weather info Maps/Town Info Gov services Participation/voting Web-based Inter/intra gov data exchange Field surveys Fire fighting Meter readings Public Data Integration Enhanced e-Gov Context-aware Location-based Services

Mobile Government: examples l l l l People with hearing disabilities Mobile health and patient care GPS enabled Police force Disaster management - notification Fire-fighters - relevant information collection Mobile payment -public transport Mobile Parking Mobile economy and welfare

Drivers of m. Government Technology related ¡ • • • High level of mobile penetration all over the world Evolution of mobile internet technologies, standards and protocols allowing faster and more sophisticated (voice and multi-media) application developments. Increasing trends in the adoption of mobile internet applications and services in the mobile business arena.

Drivers of m. Government ¡ others • • Increased citizens’ expectations from egovernment Increased efficiency and effectiveness, and cost reduction considerations of governments Supporting economic development, especially for rural areas of developing countries Promoting increased participation, quality of transparency and better democracy.

Life style and m. Powering ¡ ¡ m. Government is not only about the technology or applications It is more about “m. Powering” - solving real problems than on developing complex technologies, changing the way people live l l the public organizations, ¡ Mobile working, organizational change the society ¡ Useful and usable applications and services ¡ Participative citizens

Mobility brings in a new “life style”

The Powers of Mobility ¡ On l l l personal and primary relations the society in general, and the economy - welfare and development

m. Powering Individuals ¡ influence on the personal life and primary relations. l l l accessibility, liberation, safety, identity, status and confidence, efficiency in communications, communications and connectedness fun, privacy, organized life, time management, efficiency in daily activities, etc.

m. Powering Individuals

An m. Powered Individual is a building block for m. Developemnt

m. Powering the Society ¡ Contributions to the society at large and positive changes in the dynamics of the society. l l l efficiency in communications accessibility of information socialization political and social organization youth and new culture, etc.

m. Powering the Society ¡ Mobile technologies help to create an l l l informative, connected, culturally innovative, participative, and converging society.

m. Powered societies are pillars for m. Development

m. Powering the Economies ¡ Emergent positive effects to the country and the creation of mobile welfare. ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ a mobile economy infrastructure improvement employment new and improved businesses empowerment and m-democracy m-politics policy making mobile culture etc.

m. Powering the Economies ¡ four major influences l l areas with direct infrastructure development, better business practices, improvements in the public sector contributions to collective welfare of the individuals via social responsibility.

M-gov challenges ¡ Developing wireless and mobile networks and related infrastructure ¡ Interoperability Challenge Roaming, variety of platforms, etc. l Communication, content, payment, location, revenue sharing, etc Promoting mobile penetration and increasing accessibility l ¡ ¡ Usability Challenges mobile devices and mobile communication limitations l concise, to-the-point, location based service delivery protecting privacy and providing security for the data and interactions Regulating and developing legal aspects of mobile applications and the use of services. l ¡ ¡

Conclusions - Future directions ¡ ¡ ¡ m. Government is inevitable and growing fast It is only tip of the iceberg towards pervasive society and interactions Involve “parties” to create a natural fit in l l the responsive public organizations an “able society” who can benefit

Consclusions - m. Development l l l Planned contributions as part of introducing a new technology to the countries Contributions that are not so much expected emerge from the over all efforts in this area. Local solutions towards global challenges

m. Development may be seen as an emergent property of dynamics resulting from m. Powered Indviduals, m. Powered societies and m. Powered economies.

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