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CHAKULA features an e-interview with LIRNEasia’s CEO

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on July 7, 2010 — Leave a Comment

CHAKULA is a newsletter produced by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). Named after the Swahili word for ‘food’, it aims to mobilise African civil society around ICT policy for sustainable development and social justice issues. The latest issue features an e-interview with LIRNEasia’s CEO Rohan Samarajiva, but it is not the only reason why [...]

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Net neutrality blocked by US courts

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on April 7, 2010 — 3 Comments

We have been following the emotionally loaded net neutrality debate for some time with some detachment. Our research clearly shows that low prices are critical if the BOP is to join the Internet economy and that low prices are not sustainable without the adaptation of the budget telecom network model to broadband supply. One of [...]

Posted in General | Also tagged BOP, Broadband, budget telecom network model, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Internet access, Network neutrality, Network neutrality in the United States, quality of service regulation, telecommunications, United States

LIRNEasia CEO delivers lead talk at int’l ICTD workshop, New Delhi

Written by Nirmali Sivapragasam on March 5, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Rohan Samarajiva, will deliver one of two invited lead talks at ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice and Policy, to be held in New Delhi, India, 11 – 12 March 2010. Titled, “How the developing world may participate in the global “Internet Economy”, his presentation examines the potential mobile telephony has in enabling [...]

Posted in Events, Research | Also tagged budget telecom network model, ICTD workshop, India, Jonathon Donner, march 2010, mobile Internet, New Delhi, Rohan Samarajiva, Tim Unwin

The sad Broadband workshop…

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on November 21, 2009 — 4 Comments

We reproduce fully below, Carlos A. Afonso’s post to a thread on Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility responding to discussions at the IGF workshop “Expanding broadband access for a global Internet economy: development dimensions”, in which Rohan Samarajiva, Chair/CEO LIRNEasia was the keynote speaker. We retain the original title. As neither we nor most of [...]

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LIRNEasia CEO speaks on mobile path to the Internet Economy at the OECD

Written by Ayesha Zainudeen on September 11, 2009 — 1 Comment

Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia Chair and CEO, made the lead presentation on access to ICTs at an OECD/infoDev Workshop on the Internet Economy yesterday in Paris. The workshop, “Policy coherence in the application of information and communication technologies for development,” is currently underway. In his presentation, Dr Samarajiva described the new “Budget Telecom Network Model” developed [...]

Posted in Events, Research | Also tagged Asia, budget telecom model, budget telecom network business model, infoDev, Information and communication technologies for development, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Rohan Samarajiva, Samarajiva, Sri Lanka, Technology/Internet, Teleuse@BOP, Teleuse@BOP3

How the developing world may participate in the global Internet Economy: Innovation driven by competition

Written by Ayesha Zainudeen on September 3, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Full participation in the global Internet Economy requires electronic connectivity of considerable complexity. Today, due to a worldwide wave of liberalization and technological and business innovations in the mobile space, much of the world is electronically connected, albeit not at the levels that would fully support participation in the global Internet Economy. Yet, many millions [...]

Posted in Documents, Research | Also tagged budget telecom model, competition, infoDev, innovation, Internet, knowledge based economy, mobile phones, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, QoSE, Rohan Samarajiva, Technology/Internet, Teleuse@BOP, World Bank

Google said to be considering consortium for cable across Pacific

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on September 24, 2007 — Leave a Comment

TelecomTV – TelecomTV One – News The problem with this view is that Google has, apparently, already tried and failed several times to get a satisfactory price on capacity from existing trans-Pacific cable providers. The company certainly understands the unit costs of fibre networks as it already owns such infrastructure in the continental United States [...]

Posted in General | Also tagged fibre networks, Google, Internet leviathan, Internet traffic, marked-up retail rates, United States

Tag Archives: Internet economy

CHAKULA features an e-interview with LIRNEasia’s CEO

Net neutrality blocked by US courts

LIRNEasia CEO delivers lead talk at int’l ICTD workshop, New Delhi

The sad Broadband workshop…

LIRNEasia CEO speaks on mobile path to the Internet Economy at the OECD

How the developing world may participate in the global Internet Economy: Innovation driven by competition

Google said to be considering consortium for cable across Pacific

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