LIRNEasia » George Sciadas http://lirneasia.net a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:38:15 +0000 en hourly 1 LIRNEasia at Global Event on Measuring the Information Society http://lirneasia.net/2008/05/lirneasia-at-global-event-on-measuring-the-information-society/ http://lirneasia.net/2008/05/lirneasia-at-global-event-on-measuring-the-information-society/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 10:02:54 +0000 Shamistra Soysa http://www.lirneasia.net/?p=2582 Helani Galpaya is attending the 2008 Global Event on Measuring the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland on 27 – 29 May. She is acting as a Facilitator in a session on Advancing the ICT Agenda .

The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative to improve the availability and quality of ICT data and indicators, particularly in developing countries. It provides an open framework for coordinating ongoing and future activities, and for developing a coherent and structured approach to advancing the development of ICT indicators globally.

George Sciadas of StatsCanada also made a presentation at this event. He highlighted LIRNEasia’s intervention to remove the proposed regressive tax on mobile phones, using its 2006 T@BOP2 survey data as an example of statistics and data being used successfully.

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