Live the Digital Experience of Andicom 2008

Business Wire, Sept 17, 2008

CINTEL Organizes the Main Telecommunications Congress in Spanish Language

* The event will be held in Cartagena de Indias from October 29(th) to 31(st), 2008.

* The Commercial Exhibit of Andicom will recreate a digital city: U-City, interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions for the construction and strengthens of digital cities and lifestyles.

* Within the framework of Andicom will be developed the NexTV Summit 2008 that will gather executives, regulators and TV professionals, multimedia services over IP networks, digital TV, online TV and mobile TV of Latin America.

* Fifth version of the Mobile Applications Marathon Comcel-Nokia.

BOGOTA, Columbia -- As every year, Andicom Telecommunications Congress undertaken by the Research Center for Telecommunications (CINTEL) in October at Cartagena de Indias, becomes the main regional sector event of information and communication technology (ICT), with nearly 3 thousand participants and more than 100 linked national and international companies.

On this occasion, Andicom 2008 will conduct between October 29th and 31st, its traditional academic and business forums that have ensured the presence of about 70 speakers from different continents, will develop the second version of the Business Rounds of the ICT industry and, as novelty of its Commercial Exhibit will recreate a digital city: U-City, an interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions for the construction and strengthening of digital cities and lifestyles, organized with the support of the Ministry of Communications.

The Academic Forum will focus on the theme: Technology: Creating and Welfare and Building the Future, taking into account that today ICT constitute themselves as a support for the development of society and a tool for global transformation. High Level Speakers will address the subject through presentations that show experiences, strategies and public-private partnerships in countries and regions, including Colombia.

To meet the thematic goal of Andicom 2008, the Academic Calendar has been structured based on subjects related to e-Health, e-education, mobile banking, entertainment, media, new generation TV, e-commerce, privacy of information, Policy, regulation and environment.

In the Academic Forum is also planned the ITU submission of a report on ICT, climate change and global warming; and also will be conducted the seminar Mobile as 7th Mass Media, by Tomi Ahonen, a leading strategic 3G consultant globally, which will expose how the cellular phone and wireless devices may be stronger than the TV or the Internet, viewed as a channel of advertising and media; regulators in the region along with the operators will discuss the aspects that allow transition from a regulation for services to a regulation for markets on a convergence environment in Latin America. Finally, the well-known Colombian journalist, Patricia Janiot working for CNN in Atlanta, will dictate a conference responding to the question: Where to, is going the media convergence?

Other academic events

NexTV Summit 2008. Will gather executives, regulators and professional TV and multimedia services over IP networks, digital TV, online TV and mobile TV across Latin America, and will hold its first regional debate on Friday, October 31st in the Main Academic Forum Andicom 2008 with two panels.

In the first panel called IPTV and Mobile TV: towards the new interactive TV, technology providers will discuss new developments and challenges that IP technology brings. In addition, broadcasters and cellular phone operators will analyze what is the model of mobile TV to be imposed in the Andean region and Latin America and how they affect the actual business of each of them. In the second panel, Regulating New Generation TV, telecom operators and authorities in the region will discuss the entrances and regulatory barriers to the development of TV's future in Colombia and Latin America.

On the other hand, the European Commission for Information Society and Media will promote in Andicom 2008, the access to Cooperation resources allocated by the European Community under the Seventh Framework Program (FP7).

The Framework Programs (FP) has been the main financial instruments through which the EU supports research and development activities, covering all scientific disciplines. The PM are nominated by the European Commission and adopted by the Council and European Parliament following a co-decision procedure. The FP7, which has been proposed to last 7 years, is designed to give continuity to the achievements of the previous framework program, towards the creation of the European research area and bring it beyond, to develop the economy and society knowledge in Europe.

The Framework Program (FP) has been the main financial instrument through which the EU supports the research and development activities, covering all scientific disciplines. The PM are nominated by the European Commission and adopted by the Council and European Parliament following a co-decision procedure. The FP7, which has been proposed to last 7 years, is designed to give continuity to the achievements of the previous framework program, towards the creation of the European research area and bring it beyond, to Europe to develop the economy and society knowledge.