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LIRNEasia’s Executive Director moderates panel discussion on offshoring
Sri Lanka aims to be paradise for high-end outsourcing
By Poornima Weerasekara
The need to position Sri Lanka as a provider of top-end, high [...]
LIVE FEED Colloquium Jan 7, 2005, Disaster Management
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 [...]
Colloquium LIVE Feed
Sujata: summary too lenghty
Luxman: Since audience is EU needs to have language on ICT uplifting “masses” and “rural” access.
Malathy: Process element of regulation is not there?
Rohan: Study was originally for investor study and language taken from WTO language leaving out the independence of regulator. Process question will be in another study comparing different sectors.
Malathy: why [...]
Net Thru a Wall Outlet
Should this be added to the debate? 65% of homes have electricity; more than the 25% with some form of telecom access.
By TOM McNICHOL
HIGH-speed Internet access usually comes to homes through one of two wires: a telephone line for D.S.L. subscribers, or a coaxial cable for cable modem [...]
Live Notes on Group Discussion
These are live notes, so they’re borderline incomprehensible. The value was more in that Rohan wanted to make a live text record of conference proceedings on the Net.
Payal Mallik, Group 1:
Case Studies, success stories of application. From India- Karnatika, first action was to formalize the land records which translates to land reforms through ICTs. [...]
A Broad Perspective of Regulation
Dr. William Melody:
Think of any of the new technologies and in most countries it’s illegal. The laws are written to preserve things that are inherited, inherited regulation. The barriers to advancement are inherited regulation.
Dr. Melody stressed the importance of demand and its neglect at the hand of supply-side interests. Now, who has interest in [...]
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