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Friday, 24 January 2003 |
* Report on the 2002 WDR Dialogue Theme Released
* Dialogue Theme 2003
* WSIS: WDR associates to describe "Visions of the Information Society"
* Subscribing and unsubscribing
Welcome to the first issue of the WDR e-Brief for 2003. The e-Brief is an electronic bulletin from the World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies (WDR). The e-Brief keeps you informed of new documents and ongoing discussions on our website and features information and comment of interest to the regulatory community. Please forward the e-Brief to interested colleagues and let them know they can subscribe for free from the WDR website at http://www.regulateonline.org/.
This issue of the e-Brief accompanies the posting of the final report of the 2002 World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies.
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Report on the 2002 WDR Dialogue Theme Released:
Designing Next Generation Telecom Regulation: Convergence or Multisector Utility
The final report on the 2002 research theme, ICT Convergence Regulation or Multisector Utility Regulation, is now available for download from the WDR website. Authored by Anders Henten, Rohan Samarajiva and William Melody, the report critically examines the main alternatives being considered for the next phase of telecom regulation. It provides an assessment of evidence and a framework for analysis that will assist countries in examining the issues, options and implications, as they establish the policy objectives and design the structure of their own next generation telecom reform.
The full report and executive summary can be downloaded from http://regulateonline.org/2002/dp/wdr0206.htm
You can also comment on the report on WDR's Online Dialogue at http://regulateonline.org/dialogue/(see the topic Next Generation Regulation in the category Dialogue 2002). Or email your comments to
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Dialogue Theme 2003: Stimulating investment in network development
The Dialogue Theme for 2003 will focus on investment and the roles of the regulator in helping to stimulate investment in network development. This arises not only from the desperate need for network rollout in most developing countries, and the concerns for broadband upgrading in developed countries, but also from the drying up of investment funds for the telecom sector in the wake of the ICT sector stock market collapse and the corruption in the US industry. Key questions for consideration will soon be posted on the WDR site at http://regulateonline.org/. You will be invited to comment on these questions in the Online Dialogue at http://regulateonline.org/dialogue/ under the topic Dialogue theme for 2003.
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WSIS: WDR/LIRNE.NET associates to describe "Visions of the Information Society"
The second global preparatory meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society will be held in Geneva, February 17 to 28. As a contribution to the meeting, the ITU has commissioned a series of six papers aiming to present various perspectives and to examine a number of key themes on the information society. Two WDR/LIRNE.NET associates are involved in the project.
Professor Robin Mansell, holder of the Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet at the media and communications programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science will present a paper examining the information society from a developed country perspective. Bruce Girard, who directs WDR's internet strategy, is co-author, with Séan Ó Siochrú, of a paper titled Information Wants to be Free, which examines issues of communication rights in the information society.
More information about the Visions project is available at http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/visions/
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Books: Networking Knowledge & Global Media Governance
Two books with significant contributions from WDR staff are available. WDR researchers Rohan Samarajiva and Amy Mahan are co-editors, with Robin Mansell of the London School of Economics, of Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions and Interventions. With more than 50 contributions, the book is a comprehensive overview of the problems and prospects for information societies. Amy Mahan also collaborated with Bruce Girard (editor of the e-Brief and director of WDR’s internet strategy) and Seán Ó Siochrú of Global Media Governance, a book about media and communication governance at a global level and its key influencing forces, elements and organizations.
Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions and Interventions
http://www.comunica.org/netknowledge/
Global Media Governance
http://www.comunica.org/gmg/
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