CPRsouth

Capacity and field-building program to develop an Asia-Pacific knowledge network on ICT policy regulation

Communication Policy Research (CPR) south is intended to be a vehicle for building capacity in communication policy research in the Asia Pacific in the first instance, and then in the South. The core functions of CPRsouth are to organize an annual conference and to provide a virtual platform for interaction among communication policy researchers in the South. The objective is to create policy intellectuals capable of informed and effective intervention in ICT policy and regulatory processes in specific country contexts, within the larger context of communication policy research as a field flourishing in the universities and research institutes of the South.

LIRNEasia has received funds from IDRC to initiate CPRsouth and a leading group of scholars from Asia have agreed to serve on the CPRsouth Board. For more information, visit www.cprsouth.org

More information on conferences is available here:

• CPRsouth4, 5 – 8 December, 2009, in Negombo, Sri Lanka
• PRsouth3, 5 – 7 December, 2008, Beijing, China (in association with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication (BUPT))
• CPRsouth2, 15 – 17 December,  2007, Chennai, India (in association with the TeNeT Group and RTBI of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras)
• CPRsouth1, 19 – 21 January, 2007, Manila, the Philippines (in association with the National College of Public Administration and Governanace (NCPAG), University of the Philippines, Diliman)

CPRsouth4 was followed by an international conference (LA@5), celebrating LIRNEasia’s fifth-year anniversary. More information on this event is available here.