Tag Archive for ‘e-gov’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'e-gov'

LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.

Ashok Jhunjhunwala in prestigious panel discussion

Rohan Samarajiva

on November 12, 2006

CPRsouth Chair and LIRNEasia international advisory board member, Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala was on a blue-ribbon panel discussing ICTs and rural access last night on NDTV.

CIOL : .NET & Windows : Make bandwidth available to all, says Kalam

NDTV’s Prannoy Roy moderated a discussion in which Ballmer, N R Narayana Murthy, Ashok Jhunjhunwala and Manvinder Singh of Ranbaxy participated. He started off by asking Ballmer about the contrasting personalities of the top two at Microsoft: small, shy and geeky versus flambuoyant and six feet six. Opposites make for the best partnerships was the reply.To a question on whether Google was making Microsoft change tracks and if we were going to get free software from Microsoft soon, Ballmer said the future held a mix of business models that would coexist…

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Tags: Ashok Jhunjhunwala, e-gov, free software, Google, India, Manvinder Singh, Microsoft, Narayana Murthy, Ravi Venkatesan.

Research priorities for 2005-06

Rohan Samarajiva

on April 28, 2005

On being asked to identify what I thought were the key on-the-horizon policy issues, I came up with the following. It would be helpful to have a web discussion on this with the intention of coming up with a ranked list that may include new items.

1. I am even more convinced that the backbone is a critical hole in the original reform thinking. Its significance is highlighted by Koreas success in broadband and everything ICT. .

2. The issue of converting to a new spectrum regime that gets away from exclusive licenses for specific frequencies is likely to be a hot issue in the coming years. Many developing countries will need help to clear frequencies for higher-value uses even under the old regime. But allowing for…

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Tags: Broadband, e-gov, Sri Lanka, web discussion.

Public Administration in an e-Economy

Indi Samarajiva

on September 21, 2004

The service sector drives network economies and information societies. The foundation of this sector is the communication network. As such, modern network economies depend on effective reforms in telecom infrastructure to strengthen links among local, national, regional and international networks and markets.

Professor William H. Melody
Technical University of Denmark
London School of Economics

… in his presentation on public administration in an e-economy to the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration.

Melody further explained that e-government, as the application of new technology to deliver public services - is efficient, effective, and responsive. Timely application of new technology will make the government better, cheaper and faster.

Mr. Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, co-chair, reported that the Sri Lankan government is taking steps to reengineer itself as a…

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Tags: CISCO Internet Business Solutions Group, communication network, e-gov, e-government, Information Communication Technology Agency, Lalith Weeratunga, LIRNEasia, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Public Administration, public services, Rohan Samarajiva, Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration, Sri Lankan government, Technical University of Denmark London School of Econom, telecom infrastructure, William H. Melody.

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