Delhi Government joins hands with WBA Connected City Advisory Board

Wi-Fi deployment in collaboration with the Delhi Government towards making Delhi a smart city!

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry association focused on bringing Wi-Fi to New Delhi and connected cities. WBA discusses the transformational role of Wi-Fi Connected City Deployments by bringing together close to 200 executives and experts from around the world, including Indian network operators, technology providers, senior government officials and regulators.

The 100 Smart cities were the primary mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year which encourage implementation of smart solutions to the development issues and complications for proficient use of available assets, resources and infrastructure. Facilitating a profound dialogue and a collective process for the same, WBA founded the Connected City Advisory Board to help deliver the vision of Connected Cities being pursued by a growing number of cities from around the world. It provides an exclusive platform for City Managers and CIOs to knowledge-share and create best practices with their counterparts in other cities and also determine the best way to leverage public-private partnerships.

Delhi is the first city in India to join the Advisory Board, has motivated & paved the way for other cities to take a positive step towards facilitating a discussion for the much awaited topic.

Ashish Khetan, Vice Chairman, Government of Delhi, said,

[notification type=”notification_info” ]”I would like to congratulate Wireless Broadband Alliance for launching the Connected City Advisory Board initiative which will have leading cities from around the world join together to enable the vision for Connected Cities. This provides a great platform for city managers and CIOs to share knowledge and learn from best practices. I am happy to announce that the Government of Delhi has decided to join the Connected City Advisory Board and will be working in close association with WBA and ecosystem partners to develop Connected City plans and blue prints & create public-private ecosystems for collaboration. We see this association playing a major role helping our vision for city wide Wi-Fi.”[/notification]

MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Ministry ICT/DoT, said,

[notification type=”notification_info” ]“I would like to congratulate WBA for this promising initiative. WBA Vision Forum has provided a very interactive platform for knowledge sharing amongst key players in the telecom ecosystem. This dialogue will be the beginning of endless possibilities towards the better, connected India.”[/notification]

Aruna Sundarraj, Secretary, Govt. of India and Head of USFO Fund & Managing Director of Bharat Government said,

[notification type=”notification_info” ]“I acknowledge the fact that Wi-Fi will play a transformational role in building the Smart Cities and it will work as a robust platform for a better, connected India. The global population continues to grow at a steady pace& more and more people are moving to cities every single day, accordingly, there is a crying need for the cities to get smarter to handle this large-scale urbanization and finding new ways to manage complexity, increase efficiency, reduce expenses, and improve quality of life.”[/notification]

Rajan S. Mathews, Director General, COAI,

[notification type=”notification_info” ]”We are glad to have taken the first step towards putting the foundation stone towards a better connected future. All the players in the telecom ecosystem should come together to perpetuate the success of this initiative taken by WBA and ensure the sustained realization of the Smart Cities, connected cities vision.”[/notification]

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