IITCOE 2010 - IIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence(IITCOE) International Conference on Driving Future Transformation in Asia: Role of Telecom Policy, Regulation, Technology, and Management

IIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence (IITCOE)
IITCOE is one of the seven Centres of Telecom Centre of Excellence (TCOE) that have been set up in public-private partnership mode with funding support from various telecom operators in India and the Department of Telecommunication (DoT), India. (www.tcoe.in). IITCOE (www.iitcoe.in) has been set up at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) with support from Idea Cellular (Idea is one of the large mobile service providers in India) to focus on research, teaching, training and advice in the field of telecom policy, governance, regulation and management.

Objective and Scope of IITCOE
Think Tank Activities: Identifying and capturing best practices across countries, knowledge creation and sharing, and addressing the needs of regulation, policy, governance and customer care.
Skill Building: Enhancing human capital through training and teaching programs for policy makers, regulators and the industry.
Research and Development: Through publications, working papers, monographs.
Highlighting Policy and Regulatory Agenda: Bringing fresh insights from related sectors from countries ahead of India in telecom and related sectors, and in finding solutions to India’s specific situation especially in the development of rural telecom and related activities.