Tag Archive for ‘Bill Melody’ at LIRNEasia

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Following successful course, LIRNEasia plans regular offerings; next course in March 2008 in Singapore

on March 19, 2007

Report on the 11th LIRNE.NET Executive Training Course on Regulation, 25 February – 3 March 2007, conducted by LIRNEasia and CONNECTasia Forum Pte.Ltd.

Rohan Samarajiva, Course Director

The 11th LIRNE.NET course on “Telecom Reform: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence,” was held February 25th - March 3rd, 2007 at the Changi Village Hotel, Singapore. It was attended by 33 persons from 13 countries, ranging from Mongolia to Congo and South Africa to Bhutan.

Among the participants were 13 persons from regulatory agencies, including three members of regulatory collegiums. Eleven persons from the management of telecom operators, and nine from research organizations, universities and civil society made up the balance. Twenty were men; and 13 women.

The course had two components: a conventional lecture and assignment based module of five…

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Tags: Bhutan, Bill Melody, Broadband, Changi Village, Changi Village Hotel, China, Congo, CONNECTasia Forum Pte.Ltd, Dialog Telekom, Evan Due, Hans Wijayasuriya, Harsha de Silva, Hong Kong, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, ITU, M. H. Au, Mongolia, Rajendra Singh, Rohan Samarajiva, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Studies, The 11th LIRNE.NET, Tim Kelly, Universal Service Funds, VOIP.

LIRNEasia at WSIS, Tunis, Nov 17

Divakar Goswami

on December 6, 2005

Pro-Poor, Pro-Market ICT Policy and Regulation
World Summit on the information Society, Matmata Room, Kram Centre Tunis, November 17, 2005, 9:00 – 16:45
LIRNE.NET and the World Dialogue on Regulation (WDR), LIRNEasia, Research ICT Africa (RIA), Diálogo regional sobre la sociedad de la información (DIRSI)
Sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and
The Information for Development Program of the World Bank (infoDev)
9:00-9:15 Welcome Randy Spence
9:15 - 10.15 ICT Demand, access and usage by the poor
Chair: Heloise Emdon, IDRC
Telecom Strategies on a Shoestring (Household Income Below USD 100/Month)(PDF download) (LIRNEasia) Ayesha Zainudeen, LIRNEasia team Digital Poverty in LAC (DIRSI) Roxana Barrantes Measuring ICT Access and Usage in Africa (RIA) Alison Gillwald, Christoph Stork 10:30-12:00 Core Networks and Policy Issues Chair: Olivier Nana Nzepa, RIA Having a Backbone; Making Best Use of What You’ve Got (LIRNEasia) Harsha Vardhana Singh, Rohan Samarajiva SADC…

 

				

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											Tags: Adam, Africa, Alison Gillwald, Amy Mahan, Andrew Barendse, Ayesha Zainudeen, Ben Petrazzini, Bill Melody, Caribbean, Christoph Stork, Extending Access Networks, Harsha da Silva, Harsha de Silva, Harsha Vardhana Singh, Indonesia, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Research Centre, Kerry McNamara, Kim Mallalieu, Kram Centre Tunis, LIRNE.NET, Malathy Knight-John, Matmata Room, Mostafa Terrab, Olivier Nana Nzepa, Onno Purbo, Randy Spence, Rohan Samarajiva, Roxana Barantes, Roxana Barrantes, Saeed Khan, Telecoms Funds, Tunis, Universal Service Funds, USD.

 

	
		
		
			
				LIRNEasia training course: Catalyzing change:  Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence

				
					 by Ayesha Zainudeen
 on October 9, 2005
 
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LIRNEasia’s maiden telecom reform course was successfully completed by 36 participants from 18 countries. The 10^th telecom reform course was co-organised with LIRNE.NET, in association with the School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University, and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore. Themed ‘Catalyzing change:  Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence,’ the course took place at the Elizabeth Hotel in Singapore on the 24^th-30^th September 2005.

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The course aimed to prepare regulators to face the challenges that lie ahead to achieve connectivity and convergence. One of the key issues that much of the discussion focussed on was VOIP or voice over internet protocol, an application that is revolutionizing the voice market, bringing down costs significantly; this will have an enormous bearing on universal access, given the…

							
 

				

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											Tags: Africa, Andrew Haire, Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bill Melody, Cambodia, Canada, Concept Lab, Denmark, diverse group, Elizabeth Hotel, Europe, Ewan Sutherland, India, Indonesia, InfoComm Development Authority, Internet Research Centre, Jens Arnbak, LIRNE.NET, Malaysia, Milagros Rivera Sanchez, Mongolia, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Netherlands Regulatory Authority, Nigeria, North America, OP TA, Pakistan, Philippines, Professors William Melody, Rajendra Singh, Randolph Kluver, Rohan Samarajiva, Satish Ranade, Saudi Arabia, School of Communication and Information, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tan Geok Leng, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, telecommunications user studies, Teleglobe, Thailand, Tyco Global Network (TGN), Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, voice over internet protocol, VOIP.
					

				
 

		
 

	
		
		
			
				LIRNEasia at WSIS, Tunis

				
					 by Divakar Goswami
 on September 7, 2005
 
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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…






							
 

				

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											Tags: Adam, Alison Gillwald, Amy Mahan, Andrew Barendse, Asia, Asia Backbone, Ayesha Zainudeen, Bill Melody, Christoph Stork, e-index, Extending Access Networks, Harsha da Silva, Indonesia, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Research Centre, Judith Mariscal, Kerry McNamara, Kim Mallalieu, Kram Centre, Laurent Elder, LIRNE.NET, local access technologies, Mostafa Terrab, Onno Purbo, Randy Spence, Richard Fuchs, Rohan Samarajiva, Roxana Barrantes, Telecoms Funds, Tunis.
					

				
 

		
 

	
		
		
			
				Trip Report, Honolulu, January 16-19, 2005

				
					 by Rohan Samarajiva
 on January 31, 2005
 
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The original purpose of the visit was to participate in a super session on Strategies for implementing universal access.  The session was well attended and useful.
My presentation was Expanding Access to ICTs (Powerpoint)
Along with Bill Melodys forceful comments it clearly established the importance of market and regulatory reforms, a position that may otherwise have been deemphasized as a result of the Chairs interest in subsidies.
The visit was also used to pursue the disaster warning-communication issues that have come to the fore in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.  On the 18th of January I visited the Big Islands Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center and the Pacific Tsunami Museum accompanied by Bill Melody and at the invitation of Dr George Curtis, a tsunami…

							
 

				

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											Tags: Asia-Pacific, Big Islands Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center, Bill Melody, Bill Melodys, Ewa Beach, George Curtis, Hawaii, Honolulu, Indian Ocean, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Tsunami Museum, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Peter Anderson, Sri Lanka, the Indian Ocean tsunami, tsunami, University of Hawaii.
					

				
 

		
 

	
		
		
			
				Melody Interview plus

				
					 by Rohan Samarajiva
 on December 19, 2004
 
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  contains an interesting interview with Bill Melody and two other items worth reading.  A new publication of the Mexican regulatory agency, COFETEL.
Worth thinking about:  Bill’s central point is that the new regulatory agencies must have flexibility.  He says their managers must have expertise, independence, capacity, etc.: “they must be informed and sophisticated market managers focused on using market tools strategically as their principal weapon in achieving pubic interest objectives.”  Given the difficulties, nay impossibility, of achieving these good qualities in real-world regulatory staff, is this going to create more harm than good?

							
 

				

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											Tags: Bill Melody, COFETEL, Melody Interview.
					

				
 

		
 

	
		
		
			
				Defining the vision and mission of LIRNEasia

				
					 by Rohan Samarajiva
 on November 14, 2004
 
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Round 1 (November 12-23)

Comments requested
An organization that is coherent and focused must have a common purpose and its members must know what that purpose is.  Even better, those members must have ownership of that purpose, having participated in defining it.  This is the case in organizations that are more than the sum of their parts.
LIRNEasia is an affiliate of LIRNE.NET, an organization that was created by Bill Melody, Rohan Samarajiva and Knud-Erik Skouby (with the help of several others) in 2000.  It is through IDRCs interactions with LIRNE.NET and its affiliates that the conditions for the creation of LIRNEasia arose.  To a certain extent the transmission of the value and culture of LIRNE.NET into LIRNEasia cannot be avoided.  But there must be a participatory process…

							
 

				

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											Tags: An, Asia, Bill Melody, communication technologies, Erik Skouby, Knud-Erik Skouby, LIRNE.NET, LIRNEasia, Rohan Samarajiva.
					

				
 

		
 

	
		
		
			
				LIRNEasia Launch Party

				
					 by Indi Samarajiva
 on September 17, 2004
 
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The LIRNEasia Launch Party went well - with plenty of eating, drinking and dancing (and minimal photo-taking).  Here are a few:
Bill Melody, Milinda Moragoda, and Michael Spence
Lighting of the lamp in gale force winds
The view from a Mount Lavinia Hotel Room
It was an auspicious launch with the personal message from Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa delivered by Mr. Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to Prime Minister (see previous post for tea with the PM) and a message delivered by MP Milinda Moragoda.  Also in attendance were Manju Hathotuwa, CEO of the Information Communication Technology Agency.  There were also 3 generations of Samarajiva’s including Ainsley and Evelyn Samarajiva.  It took 7 people and 15 waiters to light the ceremonial lamp in the winds from the beach.
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											Tags: Ainsley Samarajiva, Bill Melody, Evelyn Samarajiva, Hotel Room, Information Communication Technology Agency, Lalith Weeratunga, LIRNEasia Launch Party, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Manju Hathotuwa, Michael Spence, Milinda Moragoda.

 

	




  
    
    
    
    
    
  






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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…