Focus: “Empowering Communities through Open Media Access”
Date: 1 December, 2012
DEF with a support from Ford Foundation organized the national consultation focusing on “Empowering communities through open media access” on the occasion of Manthan Awards Asia Pacific 2012 at India Habitat Centre to deliberate, discuss, share, experience and emerge with a concrete set of recommendations as how unlicensed spectrum in India can be used to serving the last mile connectivity.
The consultation saw stakeholders from the government departments, agencies, industry, civil society, academia, network implementers, policy advocators, wireless practitioners, and others to air views, opinions, inputs, concerns and suggestions on a wide area of topics. One unique approach was to present and share good practices and challenges in wireless network deployment and operations in India and other developing countries.
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