Tag Archive for ‘retail Internet’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'retail Internet'

Call for Papers: Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?
Deadline: 05 December 2008.

Colloquium on Research and Policy Processess

on June 7, 2007

Rohan Samarajiva and Helani Galpaya discuss how research can influence the policy process.

We are an evidence-based policy organization. We work around:
Inputs (money, people, etc etc)
Outputs (reports, training courses, etc)
Outcomes (positive changes in the policy process)

IDRC: Putting money into research organizations which produce knowledge produces development. Not just putting money into ICTs.

Ways that research can affect policy:
1. directly, by getting an actual policy implemented or changed (rare cases)
2. ‘enlightenment’ - where research brings enlightenment, providing new insights etc.

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Tags: ADC, Dominant government, India, Indonesia, media-based scholars, Pakistan, retail Internet, retail prices, Rohan Samarajiva, Sri Lanka.

Wi-Fi “Innovation” in Indonesia: Working around Hostile Market and Regulatory Conditions

Indi Samarajiva

on May 18, 2006

By Divakar Goswami & Onno Purbo, March 2006
LIRNEasia’s latest research paper is available for comment. The paper looks at the deployment of Wi-Fi in Indonesia, under the 2005 WDR theme, ‘Diversifying Participation in Network Development.’

Download paper: indonesia wi-fi study 2.0 [PDF]

Please post your comments below.

Executive Summary
With their low-cost and quick deployment time, wireless Internet technologies like Wi-Fi offer last-mile access network solutions to developing countries with limited network infrastructure. Among developing countries, Indonesia is unique for the extent of Wi-Fi that has been deployed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and private entrepreneurs in more than 40 towns and cities across the archipelagic nation. However, the findings from the current study finds that Wi-Fi “innovations” in Indonesia are not a result of enlightened policy designed to extend…

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