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TPRC gains interest of Washington policy officials

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on October 11, 2009 — 1 Comment

TPRC was the first organization set up to connect scholarly research and communication policy/regulation. CPRsouth, which is just three years old, was modeled on TPRC and EuroCPR. CPRsouth differs from its sister organizations by its explicit focus on capacity building and mentoring, tasks that are looked after by the well established universities and [...]

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USA: Obama details Recovery Plan but short on Broadband goals

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on January 26, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Barack Obama used his first weekly address as U.S. president to provide more details of his proposed US$825 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that, among other things, will upgrade classrooms, invest in renewable energy and expand broadband Internet access.
Obama stated his intention to invest in these areas during the presidential debates in September and [...]

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New ‘Net Neutrality’ policy would clog the Internet?

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on November 28, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Reproducing an op-ed piece from elsewhere:
Barack Obama, self-confessed BlackBerry addict, will undoubtedly be the most tech-savvy president in history. But being tech-savvy isn’t the same as being tech-smart.
The combination of Obama in the White House and new leaders of key tech-related committees in Congress should send warning flags up for all who cherish the freedom [...]

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A world free from 9/11s and tsunamis?

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on September 12, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Exactly seven years from yesterday (still today to some), early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. The hijackers flew two of the airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, [...]

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