Alef Mobitech, the New York area-based mobile internet pioneer, announced a strategic alliance with Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad — IIM A-IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence (IITCOE) — to develop and deliver a platform of collaborative studies, under the Mobile Internet World (MIW) programme.
This is the first of a series of initiatives under MIW, which would partner global schools of excellence in business and technology within the next few years.
The partnership aims at addressing business and technology challenges which have beset the MI ecosystem and help develop a globally applicable framework, for business process in mobile data economics across the mobile internet value chain. The criticality of digital transformation across enterprises and emergence of a mobile native environment would also be a focus area of studies.
Through this alliance, students will be provided global exposure to the space of the fourth industrial revolution, where the power of connectivity across billions will be multiplied exponentially by emerging technologies such as fog computing, IoT, artificial intelligence amongst others.
In addition, Alef Mobitech will work closely with IIMA-TCOE to create a pipeline of projects, research and development studies contributing Government’s Digital India development initiatives around smart cities, lnternet of Things, M-Governance, M-Health and M-Education.
“On the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution, the Mobile Internet ecosystem is set to play a critical role across emerging digital lifestyles,’’ says Ganesh Sundaram, founder and CEO, Alef Mobitech. “This agreement draws on IITCOE-IIMA’s reputation for upholding the highest degree of academic excellence and domain knowledge and allows us to combine Alef’s disruptive next-gen technology to provide a new paradigm of developmental studies that contribute to entire MI value chain.”
Speaking on the alliance, Rekha Jain, Chairperson, IITCOE-IIMA, said, “The Centre is committed to help the catalysis of new trends and emerging technology in the digital revolution which is rapidly encompassing the country. This alliance with Alef Mobitech, a pioneer in the field of Mobile Internet, would help in carving out new business models to address challenges faced by the ecosystem, besides it would help evolve new policy recommendations, establishing a culture of innovation and play a role in helping realise the Prime Minister’s Digital India mission.”