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Colloquium: Bangladesh TRE Study 2008
Conducted by Miraj Khaled.
Bangladesh has had a monopoly since 1989. The sector was opened in 1996. The Telecom Act was enacted in 2001. The regulator was established under this Act.
During this period the number of mobile subscribers increased significantly, with a peak in 2006. The fixed phone tariff fell dramatically from 2001 to 2002 and [...]
Colloquium: Maldives TRE Study 2008
The study was conducted by Ms. Helani Galpaya.
She first went over the overview of the Maldives, both in general and telecommunications.
Previous monopoly partially privatized, and Dhiraagu is established in 1988 and continues to dominate the market.
10% of GDP is attributed to communication services, of which telecom is dominant.IN 2001 mobile prepaid services were launched and [...]
Colloquium: Telecom Regulatory Environment Study, India 2008
The study was undertaken by Payal Malik.
The liberalization was done in 2000, and there has been a large increase in the total number of subscribers. Mobile increases expediently from 2004, this is partly due to the TRAI allocating CDMA subscribers into the mobile category as opposed to fixed.
Year on year growth scores show that the [...]
Colloquium: TRE Philippines Study
The study was conducted by Erwin Alampay.
The number of mobile subscribers rose significantly since 1998, this is due to prepaid being introduced. This made access easier to potential subscribers.
Also, after 1993 the number of fixed telephone lines that were installed increased significantly and have remained constant since.
The number of mobile subscribers are very low from [...]
Colloquium: Telecom Regulatory Environment Study- Thailand
The study was conducted by Deuden Nikomborirak and Saowalak Cheevasittiyananond.
The total numbers of subscribers have increased significantly since 2001 with the entrance of the 3rd player into the telecom sector. This is the concept of the disruptive new entrant. Until 2001, a duopoly existed and there was a system of price fixing. This changed with [...]
Colloquium: Sarvodaya Satellite and Web Radio as precursor to Sarvodaya Community Radio – The way forward and the challenges
The Colloquium hopes to assess how the project can be sustained within the Sarvodaya arena.
Chaminda Rajakaruna opened the presentation with a brief introduction to Sarvodaya. Sarvodaya is a widely expanded grassroots levels organisation. He went on to present the vision of the Deshodaya as well.
Purpose of the intervention was to take the mssge behind Sarvodaya [...]
Colloquium: Classification of Early Warning Systems
Nuwan noted that this leads on from the earlier coversation that were had in regard to Early Warning Systems (EWS) and explained why classification is importat for people in this field. This is important mainly for comparisons between countries, institutions and technologies. And so a ranking should be established.
Four examples were identified,
Community based last mile [...]
Colloquium: Classification of Early Warning Systems
Nuwan Waidyanatha will conduct a colloquium on the topic of ‘My spring break in Kunming: Classification of Early Warning Systems on the 29th of July 2008.
The Colloquium will focus on the question that came up during one of the LIRNEasia brain storming sessions which was “what can and what can’t the Last-Mile Hazard [...]
Colloquium: Harsha de Silva’s presentation for the Agriculture Workshop
The main theme of the presentation was that traceability increases the value of the produce. This makes the product more marketable. Farmers dealing with the EU market have to deal with increasingly more stringent levels but this has also allowed those engaged in the traceability process to use it as a tool to market their [...]
Colloquium: Harsha Liyanage talks on telecentre sustainability
Please find the concept note added : sustainability-first-concept-note-for-research-version-1.pdf
Please note that this Colloquium is being Skypecast at https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/search.html?search=lirneasia
The Colloquium started out with basic introductions of Dr. Harsha Liyanage and the LIRNEasia crew.
He then went on to explain that he was interested in Telecenters and the Sarvodaya Fusion movement. He went on to tackle the issue of [...]
Colloquium: Agriculture workshop on traceability and Transaction costs
The Colloquium started off with Helani Galpaya giving a brief over view of the agriculture project. Harsha de Silva then went on to give a brief overview of the agriculture market as it is… today. The relevant market is limited to 2.3 million farmers. But even this is not the entire focud group as they [...]
Colloquium: Presentations for Agriculture Workshop on Skype
transaction-costs.pdf
traceabilityv3.pdf
Please note that a Colloquium will be held on Tuesday the 5th of February to review the presentations that will be delivered at the Agriculture Workshop from the 21st – 23rd of Feb
The Colloquium will be conducted by Shamistra Soysa, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Harsha de Silva.
The Colloquium will be blogged in live time and I [...]
Colloquium titled, ‘Communication and Technology: What’s New?’
lirneasia_colloquium_jan_08.ppt
A Colloquium will be conducted by Robin Mansell on the 19th of January 2008 at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo.
Robin Mansell, Ph.D., joined the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in 2001 where she is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications. She is Honorary Professor at the LINK Centre, Wits Graduate [...]
Colloquium: Reporting KPIs for LIRNEasia
The Colloquium that was a follow-on from the discussion held in Kandalama regarding KPIs was conducted by Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Shamistra Soysa.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are those that help in measuring the success of the day to day activities of an organization. This means that the KPIs would lead to KRIs.
First the mission statement was [...]
Colloquium- Sharing knowledge on disaster warning : community based last- mile warning system- Workshop in Dhaka
The colloquium which was conducted by Ms Natasha Udu-gama and Nuwan Waidyanatha was focused on the material to be presented at the Disaster management workshop to be held in Dhaka.
The Colloquium started off with review of the sessions and programme of the workshop.
Sujatha Gamage stated that the term ‘Last- Mile’ should be used in conjuction [...]
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