We reproduce fully below, Carlos A. Afonso’s post to a thread on Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility responding to discussions at the IGF workshop “Expanding broadband access for a global Internet economy: development dimensions”, in which Rohan Samarajiva, Chair/CEO LIRNEasia was the keynote speaker. We retain the original title.
As neither we nor most of [...]
LIRNEasia’s research presented at India Disaster Management Congress 2009
The Second India Disaster Management Congress (IDMC 2009) took place from 4-6 November at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. It was organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) to assemble, synthesize and further disseminate knowledge on disaster management in diverse sectors.
Natasha Udu-gama, former HazInfo Dissemination Manager and Researcher, presented “Implementing Inclusive ICTs: Mobile [...]
Universal service funds un/misspent? No problem, we’ll find something for bureaucrats to spend it on
I am writing this sitting at an IGF session dealing with the twin themes of access and diversity. Learning new and useful things about making websites accessible to differently abled people which should have important implications for the design of mobile terminals that will make more-than-voice services more accessible to those lacking knowledge capital.
The [...]
Making access to the Internet possible: Competition versus Internet exchanges
In addition to giving the keynote at the OECD/infoDev workshop on the Budget Telecom Network Mode at the IGF in Sharm el Sheikh, I attended several sessions, one being that on reducing interconnection costs. The key recommendations seemed to cluster around two actions, creating Internet Exchanges in each country and reducing leased line costs [...]
Chanuka Wattegama at European Commission Environment Conference
The Directorate of Environment, European Commission organises the conference ‘The Civil Protection Forum – Towards a more resilient society’ that aims to explore the concept of resilience. Climate change is likely to increase the frequency and impact of disasters, and Europe has to be prepared for this challenge. The Forum will start a debate on [...]
2nd South Asian Broadband conference starts in Colombo 26 November 2009
The 2nd South Asia Broadband Communications Conference and Workshop will be held at the Taj Samudra, Colombo, 26-27 November 2009.
We participated in the 1st conference in 2007 and found it to be quite useful. Our work on broadband benchmarking started as a result.
Iraqis love their mobiles & payments, but there’s a downside
When we asked the people of Jaffna what good came of the ceasefire of 2002-05, they said phones and the opening of the road connecting them to the rest of Sri Lanka. Looks like the Iraqis are similar. I love my mobile like a baby, says on Iraqi mother. De facto m-payments [...]
Productivity driving growth in China and Asia
LIRNEasia’s future work will focus on knowledge-based economies, which makes us very interested in stories like this, which place innovation at the center.
China’s productivity has been lifted by a massive expansion of private enterprise, and a shift of labour out of agricultural work and into more productive jobs in industry. China’s average return on physical [...]
Warning: Your long distance carrier may be cheating
Call it “The Phantom of the Operators” or whatever. It is fraud. Your long distance carrier, possibly, uses False Answer Supervision (FAS) and charges for the calls you could not make. Carriers can earn minimum 21 per cent extra profit through such fraudulent act. And organized criminals are there to help. FAS occurs when the [...]
LIRNEasia’s TRE findings reported in Global Symposium on Regulation study
The last time LIRNEasia was associated with the ITU’s annual Global Symposium on Regulation was the year they picked the lighthouse logo, 2001. It is good to see our work being used, interestingly by an author from the private sector.
In the second half of 2008, LIRNEasia, a non profit research organization, conducted [...]
Google buys itself into mobile advertising
Google has acquired a leading firm in mobile advertising, causing observers to think that mobile advertising will take off in a big way.
The growing popularity of the iPhone and other powerful mobile devices ensures that mobile ads will become more ubiquitous, but predictions for the growth of the business vary widely. “We see [...]
BTRC to issue monthly mobile QoS report card
The days of making good money through bad services will be, theoretically, over in Bangladesh. The regulator has decided to publish monthly ratings for mobile network operators from January 2010. Among the various issues; the regulator will state each of the six mobile operator’s coverage, dropped calls and customer care.
To measure these parameters, the BTRC is [...]
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