A 4-day residential course on ‘How to Engage in Broadband Policy and Regulatory Processes’ was held at Hotel Jal Mahal, Pokhara Nepal (16th- 19th February 2019). This is the ninth of a series of short courses funded by Ford Foundation. The first two courses of this series mainly focused on producing knowledgeable consumers of research who are able to engage in broadband policy and regulatory processes, whereas this course along with the previous courses in New Delhi, India, Nagarkot, Nepal and Marawila, Sri Lanka incorporate how to produce policy-relevant research into the syllabus.
Call for applications: English
Syllabus of the course can be accessed here.
The presentations of the course are below
Day 1
Session 1 – Introduction to workshop
Session 2 – Communicating to Policy Makers
Session 3 – Comparative Data and Introduction to Web Resources
Assignment 1 – Fine-tuning and Framing a Policy Proposal
Session 4 – Introduction policy/legal research, including case study on ICT policy & regulation in federal states
Day 2
Session 5 –National Broadband Networks of India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia: Comparative study
Session 7 – Introduction to demand-side research, with examples from Nepal research
Session 8 – Assessing & summarizing research
Session 9 – Policy & regulatory implications of the 2018 nationwide ICT Access and Use Survey & qualitative research
Day 3
Session 11 – Policy and regulatory implications of the nationwide disabled survey
Session 12 – How Nepal makes and implements ICT policy
Session 13 –Baseline knowledge available online and in English relevant to Nepal ICT Policy
Day 4
Session 14 – Implementation Actions by the Regulator
Session 15 – Supplier perspectives: Panel discussion with Min Prasad Aryal, Subhash Dhakal, Aswani Rana, Narendra Maharjan, Binay Bohra, Prabal Saakh
A6 and A7 –
Group 1- Presentation
Group 2- Presentation
Group 3- Presentation
Group 4- Presentation
Group 5- Presentation
Group 6- Presentation
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