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Young Scholar awards for CPRsouth5: Deadline, 20 June 2010
Fifteen Young Scholars from the Asia-Pacific region will be selected to participate in the tutorials taught by recognized scholars and practitioners scheduled to be held before CPRsouth5 (4-5 December 2010). Who qualifies? Entry level officers of government/regulatory agencies Entry/mid- level officers of private companies in the communication industries Masters/PhD students in Economics, Public policy, Communications [...]
Less than 1% uses Mobile 2.0
LIRNEasia regularly surveys SEC group D and E (the bottom of the pyramid) teleuse in emerging Asian countries. In the study it was found that less than one percent of the Sri Lankan BOP phone users who are aware of mobile 2.0 services regularly use it. Highlighting this fact we ran an advertisement in the Daily Mirror today. The advertisement’s objective was to [...]
Colloquium: mHealth Revolutionizing Public Health in India and Sri Lanka
The Colloquim was conducted by Nuwan Waidyanatha from China while Chamindu Sampath projected the slides at LIRNEasia. Introduction to research The project is taking place in Kurunagala and Tamil Nadu. In 24 health sub centres and 4 public Helath Centres in Tamil Nadu and in Sri Lanka in 12 Hostpitals Disease infomation The system architecture [...]
LIRNEasia joins hands with Sarvodaya village for its grass root work
Little ones with Anthuriums in their hands greet us. Mederigama near Mawanella (about 1-2 km off Kandy road) is a tiny hamlet where LIRNEasia’s International Advisory Board members would directly interact with the Sri Lankan rural life. Sarvodaya has been present in this village for so long that nobody is sure when things started. We [...]
How broad is your broadband?
Based on LIRNEasia’s broadband QoSE research findings, we ran an advertisement in the Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka’s leading English daily) on 24 November 2009. The advertisement focused on four facts. The first three were on value for money, advertised download speed as opposed to actual download speed and bandwidth bottlenecks. The lack of regulation on [...]
NRA Websites: Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority Websites
A report on Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority websites, edited by the late Amy Mahan, former Senior Researcher and coordinator of LIRNE.net, is available for download here. The report takes a detailed look at the state of regulatory authority websites in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and North America and identifies benchmarking indicators for [...]
ITU and LIRNEasia to host household-survey training course in Bangkok
LIRNEasia and the International Telecommunications Union are organizing a 5 day training course on “Measuring ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals” in Bangkok, Thailand from 19 – 23 October 2009. The local host of the meeting is the Ministry of Information Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT), Thailand. The training targets staff [...]
ICTs to address the language barrier?
Today, Rohan Samarajiva delivered a speech at TEDx Colombo held at the Punchi Theater, entitled “Government services: Anytime, anywhere, any official language, now.” Much emphasis was laid on the usage of ICT in order to help trilingual government service delivery. Using the T@BOP data he illustrated the popularity of mobiles among the Sri Lankan BOP, [...]
Call clarity: Has Skype or broadband quality improved?
LIRNEasia’s most recent colloquium, Mobile 2.0: m-money for the unbanked was held via Skype. Erwin Alampay (PhD) , LIRNEasia research fellow, presented his working paper mobile 2.0 on m-money, from Manila, Philippines, via Skype to participants in three separate locations: Colombo, Sri Lanka (at LIRNEasia’s office), Yunnan, China and Bangkok, Thailand. Unlike previous virtual colloquia, [...]
Pakistan Telecom Authority shows futility of raising mobile taxes
The Pakistan Telecom Authority in their December 2008 quarterly review gives the reasoning behind the government’s decision to impose high taxes on mobile phone use. To reduce the high fiscal deficits, the government had increased taxes. The increase for the telecom sector was over 40 percent; for other sectors it was only seven percent. However, [...]
Broadband Quality War: Are you a Winner or a Loser?
A public seminar will be held at the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka auditorium on the 29th April 2009 from 5.30 to 8.00 PM. The seminar will be conducted by Prof. Timothy Gonsalves and R. Thirumurthy from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) and Chanuka Wattegama from LIRNEasia. The seminar will be followed by a [...]
Reducing roaming rates; making South Asian regional integration real
Prof. Rohan Samarajiva discuss about Reducing roaming rates in South Asian regional in his article Regional Roaming for the Choices column in Lanka Business Online. In 2006, Zain Africa took a step that led to the abolition of roaming charges and made a significant contribution to economic integration of the East African region. They did more [...]
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