Tag Archive for ‘Bangkok’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Bangkok'

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Asia-Pacific region leads high-speed Broadband connectivity, but wide divide prevails, says ITU

on September 3, 2008

While some Asia-Pacific economies are world leaders in information and communication technologies (ICT) where broadband access is ultra-high speed, affordable and close to ubiquitous, in most of the region’s poorer countries Internet access remains limited and predominantly low-speed.

This is what ITU’s Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report for the Asia-Pacific region 2008 says. It was released at ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008, Bangkok, Thailand yesterday (Sept 2, 2008).

The Report finds evidence that ICTs and broadband uptake foster growth and development, but the question remains as to the optimal speed that should be targeted in view of limited resources.

The area in which the region really stands out is the uptake of advanced Internet technologies, especially broadband Internet access. The Asia-Pacific region is the world’s largest broadband market with a 39…

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LIRNEasia Executive Director at ITU Asia 2008

Ayesha Zainudeen

on August 26, 2008

Executive Director, Rohan Samarajiva will participate at the ITU Asia 2008 conference taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 2-5 September 2008. He will talk about universal service at the opening plenary with the Indian Minister at the Telecom Development Symposium on 4th September. He will also give the keynote talk at the Business and Finance Session of the ITU Asia Youth Forum on 2nd September, chaired by Bosco Eduagive a rdo Fernandes, Vice President (BU & IM Industry Relationship), Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).

ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008 is a key networking platform for Asia’s top ICT names to come together and focus on core issues relating to ICT expansion across the region.

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Tags: Asia, Bangkok, Germany, key networking platform, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Rohan Samarajiva, Thailand.

LIRNEasia Lead Economist at UNESCAP Expert Group Meeting

Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara

on December 27, 2007

LIRNEasia Lead Economist Harsha de Silva was invited to be the Consultant to a recent Expert Group Meeting on the Provision of ICT Access for Disadvantaged Communities through Public-Private Partnerships conducted by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission fro Asia and the Pacific [ESCAP]. A number of influential policy makers and academics from the region participated at the meeting held between 12-14 December in Bangkok. Harsha set the stage for the expert group meeting by preparing a draft background paper and made a concluding presentation incorporating many of LIRNEasia research findings across the region. Harsha emphasized the need for policies to bridge the market efficiency gap in ICT access through better and conducive regulation and advocated innovative PPPs for bridging identified access gaps in rural BOP segment.

Find the draft background paper…

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Tags: Asia, Bangkok, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Harsha de Silva, LIRNEasia Lead, Public-Private Partnerships, UNESCAP Expert Group Meeting, United Nations Economic and Social Commission.

Burma’s cyber city is a lie?

Rohan Samarajiva

on October 4, 2007

The military rulers of Burma are planning to open a cyber city, based on Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor, in January 2008. The following report states that the announced starting tenants are made up.

TelecomTV - TelecomTV One - News

Now, it just so happens that I was tracking a story on the junta’s plans for its very own cyber city just before the protests began. There have been quite a few reports across Asia recently that the Burmese “government” is building its 10,000-acre (4,050 hectare) “Yadanabon cyber city” project about 70 kilometres east of Mandalay, Burma’s second largest city.

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Tags: ADSL, Alcatel, Asia, Bangkok, Burma, Cable TV, China, Internet black hole, Irrawaddy, Malaysia, Myanmar, Reporters without Borders, Russia, satellite conference, Shin Satellite, Thailand, Xinhua news agency.

Technology gives world rare view of Myanmar’s rage

Abu Saeed Khan

on September 27, 2007

With foreign journalists barred from what is one of the world’s most closed states, much of the worldwide media coverage is coming from exiled newshounds in countries such as Thailand and India — and their clandestine contacts on the inside.

Technology ranging from the latest Internet gizmo to satellite uplinks to camera phones are ensuring pictures of the massed marches of monks and civilians and the response by security forces is on TV screens around the world in hours.

The contrast to Myanmar’s last major uprising, in 1988, could not be more stark. Then, as many as 3,000 people were killed when soldiers opened fire on the crowds but it took days for the news — let alone pictures or video footage — to emerge.

“The…

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Tags: Bangkok, Dominic Faulder, India, information-capturing devices, Internet gizmo, Media coverage, Myanmar, satellite uplinks, Strand Hotel, Technology ranging, Thailand, video machinery, Yangon.

Possibility of undersea mudslide triggered tsunami raised by Dharmasarojana

Rohan Samarajiva

on August 17, 2007

Smith Dharmasarojana is a hero to those in the disaster risk-reduction field. He was the Met Chief who raised the flag re a tsunami hitting Thailand well before 2004 December. He lost his job as a result. When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami did hit, he was recalled and made the disaster-preparedness czar. Because of his drive, Thailand is among the best prepared for a tsunami or similar disaster today.

I have read about the mudslide triggered tsunami as a theoretical possibility (cannot actually recall specific mention of a historical event). The danger with this particular form of tsunami is that there is no prior earthquake for the sensors to catch. The only thing that can detect the resultant tsunami is a tsunami buoy of the…

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Tags: Andaman Islands, Bangkok, Bangladesh, Bay of Bengal, East Coast, India, Indian Ocean, island of Phuket, Myanmar, National Disaster Warning Centre, Smith Dharmasaroja, Sri Lanka, Thailand.

Colloquium on Thailand’s Telecommunication Sector

Tahani Iqbal

on November 30, 2006

As part of the Six Country Indicators Project, Deunden presented the interim findings from the Thailand country study (over Skype). The study assesses Thailand’s telecom sector and regulatory performance. It employs the common methodology and list of indicators adopted for the Six Country study.

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Tags: Bangkok, Internet services, little competition Internet, state enterprise, Thailand.

LIVE FEED Colloquium Jan 7, 2005, Disaster Management

Divakar Goswami

on January 7, 2005

Rohan: Vanguard Foundation was recently created which has a center for disaster management. The work I have done at TRC on disaster management will be leveraged in the current context, and we will prepare a document. Pete Anderson is disaster communication expert who will be brought in to design a concept paper to set up parameters of a disaster management system. We are moving very fast on this.

Sequence: Disaster happens, analysed, and transmitted in a secure communication mechanism to the media. Once the warning message is transmitted, the disaster warning process is over. As far as Vanguard and LIRNE is concerned this is a ICT and telecom problem. Disaster education will be undertaken by vanguard at a later point in time.

Since we are not govt,…

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Tags: Arun Mehtah, Bangkok, Chanukah, Colombo, Divisional Secretariate, electricity, hour systems, India, insurance, medical services/police services, More government, New York City, Pete Anderson, publicy pushing solutions, resilient solution, solar/electricity, telecenter network, Thailand, TRAI, United States, Vanguard Foundation, video conferencing.

Telecom sans Frontiers

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 6, 2005

From www.timesonline.com

Telecom charity forges links for tsunami victims
by Elizabeth Judge

Vodafone and its industry peers are backing a new kind of aid for
striken areas

AS EARLY images of the Asian tsunami disaster were flashed around
the world, an aircraft loaded with equipment touched down in Sri Lanka
at Colombo international airport.

Within minutes, technicians had set up an emergency
telecommunications centre with satellite phone lines and high-speed
internet connections. Relief organisations were quick to avail
themselves of the service. Satellite lines were made available to
hospitals and to link survivors with the outside world.

The initiative was the work of Télécoms sans Frontières (TSF), a new
charity backed by companies including Vodafone, Cable & Wireless
and Inmarsat. With fixed-line and mobile networks down, the victims in
many of the tsunami-struck regions - as in other disaster zones -…

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Anti-reform article

Rohan Samarajiva

on December 31, 2004

All this seems irrelevant now, but 2 weeks ago, the government’s Sunday newspaper ran a rambling article about telecom reforms, that was in part a personal attack on Rohan Samarajiva, but mostly an assault on the reform process itself. The tables that were central to the article had been produced by Mr K.K. Gunawardene, former Director of the Department of Telecommunications (state-owned integrated monopoly until 1991), more recently with the ITU’s Bangkok office. These tables are unfortunately not reproduced in the online edition of the newspaper. The attached response was submitted to the editor of the government newspaper, but was not published.

Observer Response

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Tags: Bangkok, K.K. Gunawardene, online edition.

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