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DIALOGUE: Regulatory Frameworks for Improving Access |
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Written by Abi Jagun, APC and Amy Mahan, LIRNE.NET
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
 What key actions could telecom/ICT regulators undertake to promote
access to infrastructure at local, national and regional levels?
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
 DIRSI, WDR’s partner in Latin America & the Caribbean, has published its
first book, Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives.
The book examines the problem of inadequate access to information and
communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate
pro-poor ICT policies within the Latin American and Caribbean context.
The authors show how market reforms have failed to ensure that the
benefits of the Information Society have spread across the many social
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Written by Victor van Reijswoud
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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The Asia-Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP) has released two new e-Notes on telecentres. The first in a sub-series of accompanying e-Notes, presents telecentres as a mature development mechanism: Telecentre 2.0. The second e-Note examines models for financing telecentres to ensure sustainability. A third e-Note is in the making and will focus on FOSS applications in telecentres. |
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The Mobile Web and the Digital Divide |
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Written by Victor van Reijswoud
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
 One of the most promising directions to bridge the Digital Divide is to provide eServices on mobile phones. The paper The Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide? by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compares the three major ways of providing applications on such devices: using SMS, Voice and Web technologies. A discussion paper that offers a wealth of information for policy makers.
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OSIPTEL Working Documents |
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
 The research division of OSIPTEL, Peru's telecom regulator, has released a new set of working documents. These documents (in Spanish) cover, from a theoretical perspective and reviewing the recent economic literature, several subjects related to fixed telephony investment projects, service access and pricing in the Peruvian economy, tariffs and their effect in the consumers, interconnection fee analysis and the role of regulation in innovation. |
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Poverty and Telephony Access in LAC |
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Written by Olga Cavalli
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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 New Background Papers are available for download in the Regional Dialogue on the Information Society’s (DIRSI) web page. These papers are part of the research project "Mobile Opportunities: Poverty and Telephony Access in Latin America and the Caribbean".
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Pro-Poor e-Governance Projects in India |
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Written by Victor van Reijswoud
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
The Asia-Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP) has released a study of Pro-Poor e-Governance Projects in India. The study is part of of a trilogy of ICT4D Case Studies. The publication analyses 18 projects in India that use ICT for the benefit of poor people, and provides recommendations on how ICT can be applied to the massive, widespread and seemingly intractable problems of poverty.
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DIRSI to meet in Argentina |
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Written by Amy Mahan
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Sunday, 26 November 2006 |
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DIRSI (the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Dialogue on the Information Society) members from the Caribbean, Central and South America are meeting this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina to consolidate the network's research strategy and its Mobile Opportunities project. The main goal of this research is to understand the strategies employed by the poor in LAC to access and use mobile telephony services, and identify the major market and regulatory barriers to increased penetration and usage. |
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Written by Amy Mahan
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
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 ICT4D Jamaica is a Jamaican-based network organization established to define, promote and facilitate the use of information and communication technology in the development process. Although Jamaican-focused, the organisation offers via its website an eclectic collection of documents, links, research, and information about advocacy campaigns in support of ICT and development around the world.
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ICT4D – Linking Policy to Community Outcomes |
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Written by Victor van Reijswoud
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Monday, 11 September 2006 |
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Partners in Micro-development has published a research brief discussing the link between national Information and Communications Technology (ICT) policy in developing countries and the effectiveness of ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives at a community level. In this report Donna Vaughan tries to determine whether, by adopting a Community Informatics (CI) approach to community based ICT4D projects, which leverages existing social capital in the communities, the sustainability of such projects can be significantly improved so that ICT4D is more inclusive in reach and its overall contribution to development is enhanced. |
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