Monthly Archives: December, 2006
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How safe from a tsunami?
The views of the joint coordinator of the Post-graduate Degree Program on Disaster Management at the University of Peradeniya.
Two years on: How safe are we from a future tsunami?
In connection with early warning, it must be added that the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been [...]
FLAG to invest $1.5 billion on new submarine cable network
FLAG Telecom plans to deploy the largest IP-based submarine cable network that will connect 60 countries, including many that currently have poor connectivity by 2009. India, Indonesia, and Philippines are among the countries that FLAG’s NGN network will have a presence in.
Reliance to carry FLAG far and wide:
“We live in a world where there is [...]
Taiwan’s vulnerability to outage was known
A study by RAND noted the vulnerability of submarine cables to undersea attacks by hostile forces in order hamper communication links to the United States. Using Taiwan as an illustrative case, the study said the following:
As seen in Table I.2, a recent survey of the number of international submarine cables reaching Taiwan is particularly disconcerting. [...]
Taiwan quake shakes telecom links in Asia
The strong quake off Taiwan’s coast on December 26 damaged six separate submarine cables and severely disrupted telecom links in the East, Southeast and South Asia. Internet connectivity in a number of countries are either down or are slowed down thanks to taffic that is being rerouted over networks that have escaped damage. Most of [...]
We wish to believe
According to the Independent, Sri Lanka is the best prepared to communicate tsunami warnings to at-risk populations on the coast. We wish to believe this. But unlike the highly-trained journalist from the Independent, we have taken the trouble to ask a few questions:
1. Does Sri Lanka have a single [...]
Indian Ocean tsunami warning
Indian Ocean tsunami warning system on slow track:
Tsunami Warning Remains Elusive – Council on Foreign Relations
The wave which swept so many away two years ago (BBC) has faded from memory in many parts of the world, even though as many as two million people remain in temporary shelters in parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and [...]
Telecom Regulatory Environment survey results from 6 countries released in India
The TRE 2006 results [PDF Download] of the first Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) survey applied across six Asian countries were released in New Delhi yesterday. The TRE Assessment, developed by LIRNEasia and already implemented in a number of countries, is a perceptual index which gauges regulatory performance across six dimensions. The TRE survey carried [...]
Universal, Ubiquitous, Equitable and Affordable forum session at ITU World 2006
Rohan Samarajiva chaired the Universal, Ubiquitous, Equitable and Affordable session at the ITU World 2006 that raised some fundamental questions about Universal Service Obligation (USO) programs around the world. Rohan introduced the topic [PDF] drawing from LIRNEasia’s recent Shoestrings II study on telephone use at the “bottom of the pyramid.”
The first Keynote speaker, Zhengmao [...]
Building Digital Communities forum at ITU World 2006, Hong Kong
Rohan Samarajiva and Divakar Goswami from LIRNEasia chaired back-to-back Forum sessions at the ITU World 2006 in Hong Kong on December 7.
The Building Digital Communities session, chaired by Divakar, covered a wide-swathe of topics. In his opening remarks [PDF], he outlined on some of the issues that would be covered in the presentations and discussion [...]
LIRNEasia provides input at policy forum in Indonesia
Indonesia’s telecom industry association and regulatory authority requested the participation of LIRNEasia at a seminar in Jakarta to address two key issues: 1) what telecom investors are looking for from the regulatory and policy environment in the country; 2) a review of current policy and regulatory challenges facing the Indonesian telecom sector.
Prof Rohan Samarajiva, [...]
LIRNEasia presents BOP study findings at CEPA Poverty Research Forum
Harsha de Silva, LIRNEasia’s Lead Economist presented a few of the preliminary findings of the Teleuse@BOP (Shoestrings:2) study at CEPA’s (Centre for Poverty Analysis) Annual Symposium on Poverty Research in Sri Lanka at the JAIC Hilton on December 6 2007.
The presentation turned around much of the discussion at the Forum, in line with Prahalad’s thinking, [...]
More on Maldives
Several weeks ago we speculated on why the Maldives, with its tiny population, needed two undersea cables. The answer is that the first cable is a collaboration between the new entrant Wataniya and India’s disruptive competitor, Reliance (through its FLAG unit). This created enormous pressure on the complacent incumbent Dhiraagu, the [...]
Opportunity to study at Manchester, esp for Sri Lankans
Faculty of Humanities, The University of Manchester
The BWPI de Silva PhD Scholarship for Sri Lanka
Award of this scholarship has been made possible by the generosity of Dr Harin de Silva (BSc Mech Eng 1982).
Value of award:
Total award = US$90,000 (this will be augmented through BWPI support for fees and maintenance)
Criteria:
This scholarship is open [...]
Researcher wanted
See Job description / requirements
Please submit a detailed CV, phone/email contacts of two references who can speak to relevant experience/abilities and a sample of research-related writing (less than 10 pages) to the following email: hr@lirne.net by January 7, 2007. Applications can also be mailed to Human Resources, LIRNEasia, 12 Balcombe Place, Colombo 8. Results of [...]
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