LIRNEasia’s Executive Director will speak at the International Conference on Information, Communication and New Media & the First Annual Convention of the Information and Communication Association of Taiwan, being held in Taipei on 17 May 2008. His presentaiton, Asia at the leading edge of communication and new media developments? can be downloaded by clicking on the link.
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Sanjana
The linked presentation appears as gibberish on Scribd. Can someone please upload a normal PDF or PPT?
zzainudeen
Apologies, we’re having teething problems with the new website format; this will be fixed asap.
admin
should be shape now
Sanjana
Thanks Indi.
Babar Bhatti
Very interesting data and charts about improvement in earnings/savings. I’ll share excerpts with my readers. Thanks!
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