Possibilities, Policies and Partnerships:
A Symposium on:
Financial Inclusion through Mobile Phones
9 October 2009, Gulmohar hall, India Habitat Center, New Delhi Agenda With nearly 440 million subscribers, mobile phones cover nearly 40% of the countrys population. Given the unprecedented coverage, mobile phones are increasingly been seen as agents of socio-economic development reaching out opportunities to people and places way beyond any other instrument. Financial inclusion is the key to socio-economic development and it was a matter of time that people would start talking about and thinking about marrying financial inclusion with mobile phones. While the potential of mobile phones as a powerful instrument of reaching out financial services to the rural areas has been known and recognized for sometime, the recent announcement by the Prime Ministers office has given the issue a sense of urgency. Of course, today we have the technology to deliver financial services to the remotest parts of the country; but technology by itself cannot guarantee the success of what is essentially a socio-economic process. What is needed is progressive policies and strong partnerships between Telecom service providers, Banks and technology enablers. The symposium will address three key issues of policy, possibilities and partnerships which we believe would ensure the success of financial inclusion through mobile phones: 10:30-11:00 hrs Registration & Tea
11:00-11:30 hrs 11:00-11:20 hrs
Special Session1: Perspective by Eminent Policy Maker Address by R Chandrashekhar, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Government of India Q&A Session
11:20-11:30 hrs
____________________________________________________________________________________________ 11:30-11:35 hrs Change over ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 11:35-12:55 hrs Panel Discussion: 1. The Possibilities
What can telecom operators with their ever expanding customer base and networks offer in terms of financial inclusion? Do we have the technologies to provide financial services on mobile in a robust and secure manner? Have we mapped the demand side?
11:35-11:45 hrs 11:45-12:15 hrs
Session Moderator Address by Panelist Anil Pande, Head Product Development Management, Reliance Communications Sunil Kulkarni, President Corporate, Oxigen Infovision Pvt Ltd Sanjay Swamy, Chief Executive Officer, mCheck Probir Roy, Co Founder, Paymate Panel Discussion Q&A Session Summing up by Session Moderator Lunch Special Session2: Perspective by Eminent policy Maker Address by ICRIER *
12:15-12:35 hrs 12:35-12:50 hrs 12:50-12:55 hrs 12:55-13:55 hrs 13:55-14:25 hrs 13:55-14:15 hrs
14:15-14:25 hrs Q&A Session ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 14:25-14:30 hrs 1430-1500 hrs 14:30-14:50 hrs Change Over Special Session4: Perspective by Eminent policy Maker Address by P Vijaya Bhaskar, Chief General Manager-in-Charge, Department of Banking Operations & Development, Reserve Bank of India *
14:50-15:00 hrs Q&A Session ___________________________________________________________________________________ 15:00-15:15 hrs 15:15-16:30 hrs Coffee Break Panel Discussion2: The Partnerships
Despite unlimited possibilities and friendly policies will it work without strong partnerships? What would be the respective role of operators, banks and technology solution providers? 15:15-15:25 hrs 15:25-15:55 hrs Session Moderator Address by Panelists Lloyd Mathias, Chief Marketing Officer, Tata Teleservices Kajal Ghose, Head Mobile Banking, State Bank of India* Pawan Bakshi, General Manager Marketing, Bharti Airtel* Aditya Menon, Executive Director & Global Head of Product Management, Obopay Mobile Technology India Pvt Ltd Anurag Gupta, Co Founder, A Little World Panel Discussion Q&A Session Summing up by Session Moderator
15:55-16:15 hrs 16:15-16:25 hrs 16:25-16:30 hrs
16:30 hrs * Confirmation Awaited Confirmed
Session Concludes ******************
