Senior Research Manager
Ayesha is involved in research into various aspects of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Asian Region. Her current research focus is on understanding ICT usage and needs of users at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and how access can be improved. She manages the multi-country studies Teleuse@BOP studies at LIRNEasia (2008, 2006, 2005). She has also led a study of the interplay of information, payments and logistics over mobile phones in a case study of the Cell Bazaar service in Bangladesh.
She has co-edited ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks, with Rohan Samarajiva (Ph.D.), a book which draws from Asian experiences in expanding ICT access. She has also been involved in research into the replicability of Grameen’s micro-finance approach to extending rural connectivity in Bangladesh, as well as research into the institutional requirements for an effective disaster warning system for Sri Lanka, in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004.
Previously, Ayesha was involved in research assistance on infrastructural reform projects at the Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology of Sri Lanka, as well as social research at the A.C.S Hameed Peace Foundation. She holds a Bachelors degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
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