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Solutions for Tomorrow
We know that memberships in associations and expert bodies as well as strategic alliances and partnerships are indispensable elements of further expanding our leading international position. In global markets, the integration in leading information networks is of great importance. We benefit from it – and our customers benefit even more. By playing an active part in leading industry associations such as 4G Americas, the GSM Association, GSMA Latin Americas and the TM Forum, we ensure that we have early access to important new market trends and can quickly turn them into customer solutions.
GSM Association (GSMA) and GSM Latin America
Founded in 1987, the GSM Association has played a pivotal role in the development of the GSM platform and of the global wireless industry. The GSM Association (GSMA) is a global trade association that represents the interests of more than 585 GSM mobile operators. The Association’s role is to promote, protect and enhance the interests of the global GSM mobile operator community - which currently provides GSM services to more than 850 million customers across 200 countries and regions around the world (71% of the world's mobile market). In addition, some 132 key manufacturers and suppliers to the GSM industry are associate members of the GSM Association.
The Mobile Innovation Market
The GSMA has launched an ongoing Market to help the thousands of small and medium sized companies developing innovative mobile products and services to reach mobile operators and bring their innovations to end-users. The Mobile Innovation Market is also designed to stimulate and showcase innovation around mobile services and better align innovators with the needs of the mobile industry and its customers.
www.mobileworldlive.com
TM Forum
The TM Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communications services. Our open membership of more than 500 companies comprises incumbent and new entrant service providers, computing and network equipment suppliers, software solution suppliers and customers of communications services. TM Forum has been contributing to the Information and Communications Services (ICS) Industry for over 15 years.
4G Americas, LLC (formerly 3G Americas)
3G Americas was established in January 2002 to globally address the converged operator network and seamless evolution to future generation technologies. This marked a significant milestone for the advancement of the GSM family of technologies and ensured a smooth transition to third generation (3G) services. Now with 3G services widely deployed throughout the Americas, the organization is prepared to address the next generation of mobile services.
The mission of 4G Americas is to promote, facilitate and advocate the deployment of the 3GPP family of mobile broadband technologies throughout the ecosystem – including networks, services, applications and wirelessly connected devices – in the Americas. 4G Americas is committed to working with government agencies, regulatory bodies, technical standards organizations and other global wireless organizations in order to promote truly seamless interoperability and convergence.
ETIS
ETIS is a membership based organisation which brings together the major telecommunications providers in Europe on key information and communication technology issues. The mission of ETIS is to enable its members to improve their business performance by personal exchange of information on using ICT effectively.
ETIS achieves this by engaging its members in various working groups, sharing best-practices, benchmarking, web-based information services, discussion forums, EU projects, workshops and conferences.
German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media e.V.
The German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media e.V. (BITKOM) represents a total of 1,300 companies. Its roughly 700 regular members employ some 700,000 people and generate revenues of 135 billion Euros. These companies include manufacturers of data terminal equipment and infrastructure, new media agencies, as well as content, service and software providers.
More than 500 of the association's members are small and medium-sized enterprises. BITKOM is working to improve the regulatory framework in Germany, modernize the education system and promote innovation.
www.bitkom.org
Smart Grid in India - An Initative of Ministry of Power
The proposed India Smart Grid Forum will be a non-profit voluntary consortium of public and private stakeholders with the prime objective of accelerating development of Smart Grid technologies in the Indian Power Sector.
The goal of the Forum would be to help the Indian power sector to deploy Smart Grid technologies in an efficient, cost-effective, innovative and scalable manner by bringing together all the key stakeholders and enabling technologies.
The India Smart Grid Forum will coordinate and cooperate with relevant global and Indian bodies to leverage global experience and standards where ever available or helpful, and will highlight any gaps in the same from an Indian perspective.
http://173.201.177.176/isgf/fullIndex.htm
Bildungszentrum für informationsverarbeitende Berufe (b.i.b.)
Training center for IT professions
Privately run, state approved and financially independent - these were the three cornerstones of the concept chosen by Bildungszentrum für informationsverarbeitende Berufe, abbreviated known as b.i.b.. With over 30 years of experience and over 22,000 graduates successfully installed in careers, it is a top address among educational institutions in the field of applied informatics.
b.i.b. offers basic and advanced training programs for various target groups, ranging from young people with middle school certificates to academics. Students work on networked IT systems in small groups, each student normally having his or her own PC.
www.bib.de
Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft
The IT training center was founded by computer pioneer Heinz Nixdorf in 1972 to collaborate closely with numerous partners in developing innovative job training concepts. The positive experiences and success of its graduates in their careers led to foundation of FHDW in Paderborn in 1993.
The dual work-study system, which alternates academic and practical phases, is designed to support companies in the systematic development of their high potentials. The concept bore fruit, and FHDW expanded. Branches were established in other cities: Bergisch Gladbach und Hannover in 1996, Gütersloh in 2000, Bielefeld 2001, Celle in 2003. In October 2005, FHDW started its work in Dresden. Some 1,800 graduates of the FHDW now hold positions of responsibility in and outside the country.
www.fhdw.de
Universitätsgesellschaft Paderborn
Universitätsgesellschaft Paderborn is an association of friends and patrons of Paderborn University. The association's objective is to provide funding for research and teaching at the university and to foster good relations between graduates and their alma mater. Today, several hundred members, including countless businesses and institutions, are committed to reaching these goals for the good of the university and the entire region. One of our goals is to promote international cooperation.
An increasingly interwoven global economy, coupled with the completely new possibilities offered by communications technology, make international know-how exchange indispensable.
www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/universitaetsgesellschaft/
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