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Researching pro-poor strategies in Latin America Print E-mail
Thursday, 21 April 2005
ICAThe telecommunications regulatory research group established at a meeting in Montevideo last November has a name - REDIS in English (Regional Dialogue on the Information Society) and DIRSI in Spanish (Diálogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Información). It has established a number of research priorities and will meet prior to the Latin American regional WSIS conference in Rio de Janeiro in June. At the meeting, to be held June 6 and 7, the researchers will discuss progress on four research topics.
  1. Demand analysis: What is digital poverty and how can it be measured
  2. Supply analysis: New technological platforms and new ways to provide services to low-income sectors
  3. Universal service policies and digital empowerment in a post-reform era: Regulatory agency tools and institutional design
  4. New models of ownership, management and development of telecom networks: The role of local actors

The research, which is supported by the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas, will be presented to the Summit of the Americas in Argentina in November and the WSIS in Tunis later that month.

DIRSI and the World Dialogue on Regulation work together in the region.