This past weekend I spoke at the second Knowledge Forum for journalists organized by Sri Lanka Telecom Limited, Sri Lanka’s largest fixed and broadband service provider in Habarana. Over 40 journalists from print and electronic media participated in this two and a half day event. A majority of speakers were from within the Company, but they had invited 3-4 speakers including me to speak on related subjects. I made a presentation on Teleuse@BOP and also participated in an interesting discussion about congestion around the time of some form of “disaster” event, such as the recent false warning on a tsunami.
In LIRNEasia’s thinking, the media play an extremely important role in policy and regulation, because they constitute the symbolic environment within which stakeholders act. Therefore, helping media personnel learn about rapidly changing telecom technologies, markets and policies is important. So important that we are tempted to organize such events in all the countries we work in, alone or in collaboration with major operators like SLTL.
Presentation at: sltlsep07_11.ppt
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Ashwin Hemmathagama
Prof. Rohan,
I was one of the Snr. Journalist/ Editor present at this forum and was fascinated by the information you presented. Thank you for the wonderful presentation.