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Integrated Communication Solutions(IC)

Coolest Ideas Frozen..


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Founder:Mr. Nitin Mittal Co-Founder:Mr. Anil Sharma

EST in 2002

Key People

Vaibhav Joshi (Senior Analyst) Ritvika Jaiswal (Senior Strategist)

500Employees

5 BranchesAcross India

10 YearsExperience

End to EndService


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Our Motto

we at ICsolutions believe that a client is notjust a business opportunity, it is an entity

that adds value to our lives. And we arecommitted towards reciprocating the same,with diligent, ethical and superior quality

performance


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USP

Exclusive partnership withAirtel on mobile banking.

Patent software providedby Airtel.

Patent mobile supporttools.


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Previous projects

Market analysis for M-commerce

in Africa.

Market analysis for e-learning

in Indian telecom and IT

sector.


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m University

One can access lessons, video clips andaudio libraries from anywhere, includingpublic places and moving buses and trains

Each student can learn at his or her ownpace.

Providing valuable support to professionals in on-the-job

training.

Portability is a very big plus, as a PDA is compact and verylightweight.

It is a fact that most handheld devices are more affordablypriced than larger systems.


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Our Reach


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OUR APPROACH

ANALYSE

Strategize

DELIVER


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Project Summary

Analysis of African Continent.

Selection of 3 Pilot Countries.

Conducting Survey to consider B2B or B2C sales.

Depending on the survey, ideating Marketing & Sales Strategy.

Future Scope of Development in the concerned countries.


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More African have access to mobile phones than toclean drinking water.

According to the GSMA , Africa is now the worldssecond largest mobile market by connections after Asia,and the fastest growing mobile network in the world.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you canuse to change the world. Nelson Mandela


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SOURCE:http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/share/19jan2012/mobile_africa/
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COUNTRY LITERACYRATE(%)

POPULATION GDP(PPP)USD

INTERNETUSERS

INTERNETPENETRATION(%)

Kenya 78.1 43,013,341 1445 1050,000 25.5

Uganda 73.3 35,873,253 1700 420,000 12.1

Namibia 84 2,100,000 7778 148,000 6.9

Analysis of African

Countries


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Survey Statistics

This report summarises information about the status of m-learning inAfrica based on 625 responses to a questionnaire circulated in 2010 topeople on the m-Learning Africa database.

When asked about the educational levels addressed by their M-learningcourses, respondents listed the following:

Higher education 53%

Technical education 20% Vocational 12% Informal/non-formal 5% Continuing education 7% Secondary school 3%

Survey Analysis-This reinforces the view that, amongst practitioners who respondedto the survey, the majority of users for m-learning were in the higher educational andTechnical educational fields.


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Conducting Survey To Tap MarketPotential.

According to a recent national survey, access to mobile technology in theclassroom has more than tripled among high school students in the pastthree years.

Even more interesting, parents say they are more likely to purchase amobile technology device for their child if its for classroom use.

Most student already own mobile devices.

According to the survey, students no longer view their schools internetfilters as the primary barrier to using technology in the classroom, as theyhave in years past. Instead, when asked how schools could make it easierto use technology for school work, students responses indicated that theywant to use their own mobile learning devices.


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Entry Strategy

Tie up with Indian Telecom Operator Bharti Airtel as they havesubstantial presence in Kenya & Uganda.

Using M-Commerce for payment of the courses.

Introducing Special Promotional offers & Conducting Workshopsfor student to try m-University.

The University of Nairobi has partnered with Google to improveaccess to Web-based communications for staff and students sothat they can get free access to Google applications (ibid).


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Political Stability in the PilotCountries

In 2007,Kenya had Political instability due to PresidentialElection.1300 people died and 500,000 were displaced.

But in 2008,stability was regained by adding a new post in theconstitution.

Hopefully the next presidential election would be carried out inpeace.

The political movements in Uganda & Namibia is relatively stable .


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Future Scope for the Growth ofm-University

For the first time, a new study quantifies for the first time how IXPsenable Kenya and Nigeria to save millions.

The primary role of an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) is to keep local

Internet traffic within local infrastructure and to the reduce costsassociated with traffic exchange between Internet Service Providers(ISPs).

In Kenya (IXP) has dramatically reduced latency of local traffic andspeeding the data, while saving local ISPs nearly US$1.5 million per yearon international connectivity charges.

Scope of Offline Learning through HTML5.

Source:http://www.internetsociety.org/ixpimpact
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DELIVERABLES IC will conduct market research on African countries and recommend

on which market segments to pursue

Conducting surveys, feedback and polls to select B2C or B2B

Formulating Marketing & Entry Sales Strategy

30 Days

10 Days

25 Days

65 DaysTOTAL


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Pricing

The total cost for the project would be $50,000.

To build a sense of trust & reliability we can break the payment into 3instalments:

25% of the payment up front

25% after the completion of 2nd modulementioned in the Deliverables

50% after the completion of the 3rd & final module


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