Tag Archive for 'Asia Backbone'


Call for Papers: Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?
Deadline: 05 December 2008.




LIRNEasia at WSIS, Tunis

Pro-Poor Pro-Market Regulation Reform (PPPM)

From IDRC’s website
World Summit on the information Society
, Kram Centre, Tunis, November 17, 2005
Conference Organisers: the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Information for Development Program of the World Bank (infoDev)

LIRNE.NET and the World Dialogue on Regulation (WDR)
LIRNEasia Research ICT Africa (RIA)
Diálogo regional sobre la sociedad de la información (DIRSI)

November 17, 2005 - Morning Program

Time Activity
8:30-8:45

Welcome - Richard Fuchs

8:45-9:45

ICT Demand, access and usage by the poor
Chair: Laurent Elder, IDRC
 
ICT Uses on a Shoestring in Asia (LIRNEasia)- Ayesha Zainudeen
Digital Poverty in LAC (DIRSI) - Roxana Barrantes
Towards an African e-index (RIA) - Alison Gillwald, Christoph Stork
 
Discussion
9:45-10:00
Coffee break
10:00-11:15
Core Networks and Policy Issues
Chair: F F Tusubira, RIA
 
Asia Backbone Study (LIRNEasia) - Rohan Samarajiva
Telecoms Funds and Regulatory Challenges - Judith Mariscal
South Asia ADCs, USFs and Subsidy Auctions (LIRNEasia) - Harsha da…