1. Executive summary
The
“e-Content for Mobile Communications” Business Round Table applies for the
manifestations organized within the ACTeN Project (Anticipating Content
Technology Needs) - an international project at which ITC has its part among
other 10 European partners, that aims to disseminate the results from the FP5
framework with the purpose of getting ready the FP6 programme, using the
existent infrastructure of the EADIM and EUROPRIX networks. These results tend
to constitute an element of stimulating the initiatives within the multimedia
technology domain and the applications related to e-content for both software
developers and business people.
The participants at the Business Round Table
organized at ROMEXPO in Bucharest Romania by ITC discovered that there is a
discrepancy between the development of technologies and tools within the field
of mobile communication on one part, and the use of content delivered by the
content providers, on the other part. A bunch of experts and an interested
public debated around this interested subject and found important conclusions.
The experts
taking part in the discussion were:
Grigore
Popescu, General Director, ITC
Gheorghe Samoila, Head of the Multimedia
Department - ITC
Horea Murgu, Professor, Media University
Cătălin
Niculescu, Director Infrastructures, Nokia Romania
Valentin Mănoiu, ITC,
President of ARMI
Voicu Albu, Director, ARTelecom
Ioan Rusovici, Large
Projects Manager, Ericsson.
Irina Oberlander from the Center for Cultural
Memory, Horia Gligor from the Press (IDG), Carmen Stan from Tourism zone, Ani
Rapeanu from Hospital emergency services, Radu Marian surgeon in The Emergency
Hospital from Bucharest expressed the need for applications aimed to implement
efective content into mobile technology in order to be useful to a larger
segment of the population. The cross talks were succesfully moderated by Mr.
Eugen Preotu, councellor of the Communication and Information
Minister.
