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October 02, 2013

Telecom Application Developer Summit Sponsors Launch Manifesto for Public Comment


The pace of technological developments on all fronts—or nearly on all fronts, anyway—sometimes seems dizzying to the outside viewer, but when it comes to some fields, development not only can't happen fast enough, sometimes, it plain old doesn't happen at all. In part a response to the current environment, and in part a way to offer something of a road map to the future of development, several companies involved with the Telecom Application Developer Summit (TADS) released a manifesto that described just what needs to happen to make the Telecom Application Developer ecosystem go from concept to reality.

The firms in question—which included OnMobile, OpenCloud, Telestax and several others—put together the manifesto in a bid to account for what needs to happen in the field to set up the desired ecosystem. On the list included publishing the manifesto in question for comment, which has been done, and then taking the results of this commentary to the upcoming TADS event, where it would join with parts of the ecosystem—the various developers—to determine further responses to the commentary and to the needs of the ecosystem in the making. From there, the TADS website would be used as a means to not only store this information, but present it to those who could not attend the TADS event—happening Nov. 21-22 in Bangkok, Thailand—and get that input as well. Past that depends largely on the industry itself and how it chooses to run with the ball.


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Running with said ball, meanwhile, becomes downright vital as the sheer scope of what's at stake becomes known. The Information and Communications Technology market, at last report, will represent a combined total of $5 trillion in 2013, which in turn is up from $4.7 trillion in 2012. Mobile subscriptions are likewise going up, with 6.8 billion subscriptions in mid-2013, as compared to mid-2011's total of 5.9 billion. But there are also issues of development, as more and more users turn to the Internet for employment, entertainment, and most everything in between. As mobile networks increase, as fixed networks increase, as even voice service turns to the network, developing the technology to operate online becomes all the more crucial, hence the manifesto.

Several events are slated to support the manifesto, ranging from the TADS event in Bangkok to several networking events and even some tutorial sessions. Said events are set to cover a wide variety of topics and provide needed information to telecom application developers to help drive that all-important ecosystem development.

Indeed, technology—particularly communications technology—is rapidly growing. Consider just the breadth of developments that have taken place in Web-based real time communications (WebRTC). In a little over a year, we've gone from the promise of a future to the development of tools that would allow common Web browsers—found on most every computer—to quickly and easily offer video chat mechanisms that rival matter that was formerly found as science fiction not so long ago. Getting the whole industry together in a more united fashion will likely give a better handle on just where to go, and just what kind of development to focus on, so the results of the manifesto should prove positive for the industry as a whole. Only time will tell just what comes out of this manifesto, but it's likely to be a great start for an industry already well on its way.




Edited by Alisen Downey
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