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LIRNEasia training course held in Singapore |
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Written by Rohan Samarajiva
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Wednesday, 12 October 2005 |
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A LIRNEasia telecom reform course was successfully completed by 36 participants from 18 countries. The 10th telecom reform course was co-organised with LIRNE.NET, in association with the School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University, and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore. Themed Catalyzing change: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence, the course took place at the Elizabeth Hotel in Singapore on the 24th-29th September 2005.
A WDR Expert Forum was held on Friday 30th
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Report on LIRNE course in Singapore |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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The 11th LIRNE.NET course on “Telecom Reform: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence,” was held February 25th - March 3rd, 2007 in Singapore. It was attended by 33 people from 13 countries, ranging from Mongolia to Congo and South Africa to Bhutan. Following successful course, LIRNEasia plans regular offerings with the next course already scheduled for March 2008. Read the full report on the LIRNEasia website. |
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Book: Stimulating Investment in Network Development: Roles for Regulators |
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Friday, 03 February 2006 |
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 "This is a must-read book for regulators that continues the good work started by the first report in the series. The WDR team are masters at being able to develop detailed, policy-relevant information for the regulatory community."
Tim Kelly
Head, Strategy and Policy Unit
International Telecommunication Union
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Muhammad Yunus, Grameen and telecommunication |
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Friday, 13 October 2006 |
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 The World Dialogue on Regulation congratulates Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank for winning the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering work on micro-credit lending schemes. In addition to Grameen's work on micro-credit in Bangladesh, the bank also introduced the Grameen Village Phone project, an innovative solution to extending telecommunications access to marginal customers. A LIRNEasia study last year looked at the fundamental problem of access to telecommunications -affordability- and analysed Grameen Telecom's solution.
Read the study An Investigation of the Replicability of a Microfinance Approach to Extending Telecommunications Access to Marginal Customers |
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LIRNEasia course on infrastructure regulation |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
 LIRNEasia, in cooperation with the South Asian Forum for Infrastructure Regulation (SAFIR), is organising a Core Course on Infrastructure Regulation to take place in Sri Lanka from 1-8 April 2007. The residential program offers participants the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of regulations pertaining to infrastructure industries and regulatory economics as well as topical issues attendant to those industries, to share their experiences, to develop practical solutions to regional problems. More information from LIRNEasia.
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Risk and Infrastructures: An Issue of Governance? |
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Thursday, 25 May 2006 |
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 The Economics of Infrastructures Section at Delft University of Technology, a founding partner of WDR, will be holding its 9th international conference on 15 and 16 June 2006. The theme of the conference is Risk and Infrastructures: An Issue of Governance? The conference will explicitly connect the issues of investment, risk and regulation.
Visit the conference website for more information and to register. |
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Written by Rohan Samarajiva
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Tuesday, 29 August 2006 |
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 WDR partner LIRNEasia has released a narrative report detailing the achivements of its 2005/06 research cycle. The research program laid bare the policy and regulatory conditions necessary for the successful mobilization of ICTs to serve the needs of people in specific emerging-economy contexts. It identified overlooked aspects of telecom use by low-income users, analyzed various non-optimal, but best-available, workaround options to connect people to access networks in the context of dysfunctional policy, regulatory and market environments, and provided critiques of large scale policy and regulatory actions for building out backbone and access networks.
Read the report on the lirneasia website |
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LIRNEasia co-organiser of CPR South |
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Monday, 15 January 2007 |
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WDR regional partner LIRNEasia is co-organising the inaugural conference of Communication Policy Research South (CPRsouth) - Research for improving ICT governance in the Asia-Pacific. The conference will run from 19-21 January at the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, the Philippines. More information, including the conference agenda, is available on the LIRNEasia website. |
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Tuesday, 12 April 2005 |
 The Information for Development Program (infoDev) has unveiled a new website to accompany its new strategy. Created in 1995 infoDev has until recently been primarily a grant facility for pilot projects using ICT to combat poverty and promote development. Its new strategy is designed to strengthen the linkages between pilot projects, evidence, analysis and action in harnessing ICTs for development. The principal focus of infoDev's activities in 2004-2005 is on how ICTs can substantially advance progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. infoDev has launched an intensive program of support for research, analysis, and evaluation, impact monitoring, and toolkit development. As part of its work under the theme "Enabling Access for All", infoDev is a major supporter of the World Dialogue Dialogue on Regulation. Visit the new website at www.infodev.org |
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New WDR Research Projects |
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Written by William Melody
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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 The recently completed research on the WDR theme, Stimulating Investment in Network Development: Roles for Regulators (now in publication) demonstrated that network development requires a much broader focus if anything resembling universal access in an internet environment is to be achieved. Participation by all interested parties will not just have to be accommodated, but also facilitated and supported by policymakers and regulators. This has led us to select the WDR theme for dialogue and research for the third cycle, which is now beginning, as Diversifying Participation in Network Development. Telecom regulators and policymakers will need to play an important role in this process. It requires much more than licensing a few competitors to incumbent operators. Rather it involves facilitating participation from both the public and private sectors at local, regional, national and international levels, in extending networks, supplying services, organizing services demand, and applying services in many different ways.
A variety of research studies are being undertaken by the WDR participating research centres on this theme over the next nine months.
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