Education

Educational institutions have been at the forefront of deploying wireless technologies by equipping classrooms with wireless local area networks that provide students with instant connectivity to the Internet upon entering the facilities. Other applications in this environment include students using handhelds to maintain their class schedules and homework assignments, record and analyze science experiments, or access electronic books and dictionaries. Educators and administrators leverage mobile devices to manage classroom attendance, assist with grading, and maintain appointments and to-do lists.

Government
Last, but not least, governmental organizations are beginning to explore the benefits associated with mobile technology devices. Examples range from police officers querying records and files and recording crime scene data, all the way to governmental entities using wireless networks to push messages to handset users during times of a national emergency. Moving outward in the Wireless Value Web, we encounter the first orbit that surrounds the end-user. Figure 6.4 shows that this orbit contains three industry segments and associated categories. The segments located in this first layer around the center are the providers of user devices, content, and connectivity. Each entity within these three segments offers a product or service that involves the end-user, usually in a very direct way, meaning that end-users have direct access to these products and services. Later in this chapter, we will encounter segments located in layers farther away
from the core. Companies in these orbits usually do not interact with the customer, but instead deal with the companies located in the previous layer.

On the first orbit around the end-user core of the web, we find manufacturers of user devices, content providers, and connectivity providers.

Taken From : Enterprise Guide to Gaining Business Value from Mobile Technologies