Monthly Archives: March, 2008
LIRNEasia holds final HazInfo Workshop in Jakarta
Yesterday, 5 March 2008, LIRNEasia, with its Indonesian partner, the Indonesian Institute for Disaster Preparedness (IIDP), held the final HazInfo workshop at the Hotel Borobudur in Jakarta, Indonesia. The “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-based Last-Mile Warning Systems” workshop included several highlights such as a testimonial from an Aceh survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean [...]
Findings from Mobile Benchmarks South Asia, March 2008 released
According to LIRNEasia’s latest comparative study of price and affordability indicators in eight South Asian countries, Bangladesh emerges as having the lowest average monthly cost of using a mobile at all levels of use (low, medium and high) for different tariff plans (prepaid and postpaid). Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka follow closely, while Bhutan, Maldives [...]
LIRNEasia public lecture makes it to the press
On 25 February 2008, LIRNEasia held a public lecture on “Benefits of ICT applications to farmers with emphasis on transaction costs” and it has been covered in the Nation, Morning Leader, Financial Times, and Ravaya.
LIRNEasia at the ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg
Rohan Samarajiva will make a presentation on the topic “More than voice at the bottom of the pyramid: Telecommunication for development in Asia” at the ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg on the 3rd of April, 2008. The presentation will examine the potential for the take-up of “more-than-voice” applications among the fast growing user populations in the lower [...]
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