The staff and families had a birthday lunch (Luxman’s treat) at the Beach Wadiya. The photo gallery is above. Would have been posted earlier but I fell asleep after lunch.
LIRNEasia IS RECRUITING. Application deadline: Sunday, October 5, 2008. Click HERE for more information.
Monthly Archive for November, 2004
LIRNEasia IS RECRUITING. Application deadline: Sunday, October 5, 2008. Click HERE for more information.
Hi Lirneasia folks,
below is a table that tabulates all the comments we have received so far on LIRNEasia’s provisional mission statement. You have another opportunity to review the statement and see if you would like to propose any further changes. Shortly, the mission statement will be finalised and sent to the board of directors to be approved and framed on the wall. So the window of opportunity for intervention is limited. ACT SOON
| Mission Statement | Comments |
| .. to enable those uses by building Asia-based human capacity through research, training, consulting and advocacy | Chanuka: involving in the research and development activities towards that end |
| Alternate Phrasing | Chanuka: To improve the living conditions of the Asian population, both economically and socially, by advocating the pragmatic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), actively participating… |
Today Luxman Siriwardena has reached the stage of life where he will renounce his possessions and live in the forest. He is travelling to the Weliara jungle with only his loincloth. Please leave comments in lieu of alms.
This is an article from www.lirne.net: LIRNE.NETs Asian affiliate, LIRNEasia is quickly making its way into the South Asian policy making process. As a part of its nascent Rapid Response Program, LIRNEasia has submitted comments on a public consultation paper issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), on rural telecommunications growth in India.
The purpose of the paper, entitled, Growth of Telecom Services in Rural India: The Way Forward according to TRAI, was to engage stakeholders in a “collective thinking process” on improving the growth of Indias telecom services to improve growth both in terms of quantity as well as quality, especially with regard to rural services, where growth has been falling short recently. While overall targets are being met and in some cases…
How can my organization/I as an individual researcher participate in the activities of LIRNEasia?
LIRNE.NET is made up of research organizations, but we are building up organically, based on actual collaborative work rather than formal agreements. We worked with the LINK Centre in S Africa for years, before it became a member of LIRNE.NET. This is the approach we adopt at LIRNEasia as well. We have a number of projects that we have obtained funds for; using our best judgment, we assemble teams of researchers to work on those projects; when they produce the output, we involve as many people as we can in the discussion so that the product is improved/the knowledge is disseminated. That’s what we were doing in Mt Lavinia last year.
People…
I was looking at maps on the TeleGeography site and I ended up on their mailing list. This is something they sent me about International voice-over-IP traffic. I was surprised that it now accounts for 11% of international calls - and more in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh. I know of services like www.skype.com, but I’ve never used VoIP myself. I do hope it grows faster -
“International voice-over-IP traffic grew 23 percent in 2003, respectable by most standards, but far below the 80 percent growth rate of previous years. Global VoIP volumes appear to be reaccelerating in 2004, however, and should achieve 40 percent growth by the end of the year.
“The slowdown in 2003 was due, in part, to the growing maturity of the industry, and partially due to temporary…
Round 1 (November 12-23)
Comments requested
An organization that is coherent and focused must have a common purpose and its members must know what that purpose is. Even better, those members must have ownership of that purpose, having participated in defining it. This is the case in organizations that are more than the sum of their parts.
LIRNEasia is an affiliate of LIRNE.NET, an organization that was created by Bill Melody, Rohan Samarajiva and Knud-Erik Skouby (with the help of several others) in 2000. It is through IDRCs interactions with LIRNE.NET and its affiliates that the conditions for the creation of LIRNEasia arose. To a certain extent the transmission of the value and culture of LIRNE.NET into LIRNEasia cannot be avoided. But there must be a participatory process…
Rohan Samarajiva started out by introducing the four case studies that LIRNEasia will be conducting this year which will be LIRNEasias contribution to the Expert forum to be held in September-October 2005. Since all four study teams were represented, Rohan gave an overview of the terms of reference common to the projects and went over the timeline.
Rohan observed that a good research organization and a consulting firm has a common culture, values and quality standards. This is not the case for bodyshops and hence their output was unpredictable, varying from mediocre to excellent. LIRNEasia will not be a bodyshop but will build a common organizational culture, value and standards using multiple methods, the colloquium being one. We will experiment with various formats and themes until…
OneWorld South Asia is looking for someone to head SL operations.
OneWorld is the world’s favourite and fastest-growing civil society network online, supporting peoples media to help build a more just global society. - from website
According to a Tata manager, Tyco’s unlit capacities across just the Pacific and Atlantic total around 11,000 gigabits, throwing up huge opportunities for VSNL. Says Chaukar, "We will be a big global wholesaler of bandwidth and big in communication solutions to select people."
VSNL gets Tyco’s large data carrier clients who are mostly Fortune 500 companies.
http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/nov/06spec.htm
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Ignore the eulogistic tone of the writer, but this acquisition is significant because of the end-to-end capability it provides the Indian carrier in delivering BPO solutions and also having the ability to take on foreign telcos when WTO commitments allow point of presence.
* Eastern Nepal and Sri Lanka least-cost subsidy auctions
* Innovating at the markets (Indonesian WiFi)
* Indias universal service fund
* Replicating Grameen Bangladesh
* Demand-Side subsidies
* Microeconomic assesments, etc
* Focus on lack of backbone
* Annual Sector and Regulatory Performance Indicators
* Ongoing training programs
* Web
A document manager is up.
You can download and upload. Plus, any attachments sent to lirne@indi.ca should appear here.
This is under construction.
Presentation by Harsha de Silva, CTO Forum 2004: ICT : Business and Development
20-21 September, Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization’s (CTO) second annual forum was held in Colombo this year, on September 20-21. Subtitled the biggest annual Commonwealth ICT event, participants included director-level delegations from member countries and representatives of its sector members. The aim of the event was to bring together ICT sector stakeholders and strengthen their ability to go on meeting the challenges of accelerating Universal Access, bridging the international, as well as urban-rural digital divides, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. A great deal of emphasis was placed on the increased use of fixed and wireless broadband technologies, such as VSAT to achieve ICT4D objectives.
In this context, the Govi Gnana Service, or GGS…
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