Capacity-building is an important component of LIRNEasia’s mission. Accordingly, LIRNEasia’s research is always linked to the following or more capacity building initiatives that cut across our research themes.

• Communication Policy Research Conference

Communication Policy Research in the Global South conference(or the CPRsouth Conference) showcases ICT policy-relevant research from the Global South.  [More]

• Communication Policy Research Academy for Young Scholars

The Young Scholar Academy includes participation in 2.5 days of tutorials and the 2.5 days of the Communication Policy Research south (CPRsouth) conference. [More]

• Broadband

A number of courses have been offered in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka on broadband, with the support of the Ford Foundation.

• Electricity

The courses are about the economies of infrastructure regulation, regulatory functions (e.g. licensing, quality regulation, price regulation, safety regulation) and the design of regulatory agencies. For high and mid-level staff from regulatory agencies, utilities and ministries.

• On-demand courses

• Open Data and Electoral reforms

• Open Data and Electoral Delimitation

• Research to policy process

• Regulation and Reforms

Executive training course on regulation and reform were offered, first in Singapore and then in Cape Town.

Documents

• Economic Incentives – Missing element in solid waste management in Sri Lanka

  Presented by Dr. Sujata Gamage at Forum for business Innovations, NIBM National Innovation Center on March 01, 2019

• Readiness of School Leavers for the Workplace of the Future (Event Report)

  Readiness of School Leavers for the Workplace of the Future. Sujata N Gamage, LIRNEasia. September 2018

• Presentation: Learning organization, including international relations

  The Learning Organization (and International relations) Monica Kerretts-Makau (PhD) Course on Regulatory Design and Practice Nay Pyi Taw September 2017

• Issues of Spectrum Management in the Broadband Era (Presentation)
• Policy/regulatory questions amenable to evidence (Presentation)
• National Broadband Plan, India –Enabling Policy and Regulation (Presentation)
• Happy Reinventing in 2018!

  Here’s to a refreshing holiday season and lots of great learning and growing in 2018, from all of us at LIRNEasia!   Read more about how we have learnt – and helped others learn – in the years gone by in our latest Annual Report.

• ICT accessibility for persons for disabilities in Myanmar: event for Members of Parliament: Event report

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Events

• How to engage in broadband policy and regulatory processes, Pokhara, Nepal, February 2019
  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).
• Readiness of School Leavers for the Workplace of the Future (Event Report)
  Readiness of School Leavers for the Workplace of the Future.
• LIRNEasia CEO at 2nd GIG-ARTS Conference in Cardiff, UK
  CEO Helani Galpaya was invited to speak in one of the panels at the Second European Multidiscriplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies held 26-27 April 2018 at Cardiff University, Wales.
• LIRNEasia’s contribution to work under the Broadband for All Pillar of ESCAP AP-IS
  Most of the organizations that were given time at the First Session of the Steering Committee meeting used the time to advertise themselves.
• Event Report: Regulatory design and practice: Sharing international experiences with Myanmar
  Course Report Regulatory design and practice Sharing international experience with Myanmar 4-6 September 2017 Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar  

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People

Babu Ram Aryal

Sujata Gamage

Htaike Htaike Aung

Nirmita Narasimhan

Yatanar Htun

Blogs and Updates

• LIRNEasia to lead Asia research hub under IDRC FutureWORKS initiative
  The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada recently launched a global south research network –FutureWORKS — dedicated to researching and addressing the challenges posed by the changing landscape of work across the global south.
• CPRsouth – a break and future direction
  I write with some sadness.
• Economic Incentives – Missing element in solid waste management in Sri Lanka
  Presented by Dr.
• How to engage in broadband policy and regulatory processes, Pokhara, Nepal, February 2019
  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).
• Readiness of School Leavers for the Workplace of the Future
  How well equipped is the future workforce to face the uncertainties brought about by digital platforms and other emerging technologies such as AI, robotics and 3-D printing?
• Readiness of School Leavers for the Workplace of the Future (Event Report)
  Readiness of School Leavers for the Workplace of the Future.
• THE COAL TRAIN – A personal reflection on the people of CPRsouth
  A personal reflection on the people of CPRsouth
• Presentation: Learning organization, including international relations
  The Learning Organization (and International relations) Monica Kerretts-Makau (PhD) Course on Regulatory Design and Practice Nay Pyi Taw September 2017
• LIRNEasia CEO at 2nd GIG-ARTS Conference in Cardiff, UK
  CEO Helani Galpaya was invited to speak in one of the panels at the Second European Multidiscriplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies held 26-27 April 2018 at Cardiff University, Wales.
• Issues of Spectrum Management in the Broadband Era (Presentation)
• Policy/regulatory questions amenable to evidence (Presentation)
• National Broadband Plan, India –Enabling Policy and Regulation (Presentation)
• CPRsouth Young Scholars are likely to become the most policy engaged
  The Young Scholars’ Program conducted alongside the annual CPRsouth conference has been offered eleven times since January 2007, with the support of IDRC.
• Happy Reinventing in 2018!
  Here’s to a refreshing holiday season and lots of great learning and growing in 2018, from all of us at LIRNEasia!
• ICT accessibility for persons for disabilities in Myanmar: event for Members of Parliament: Event report
• How think tanks can contribute to good policy
  Improving the quality of policy proposals in the Budget Daily FT Opinion by Rohan Samarajiva I have been immersed in discussions in various media platforms about the 2018 Sri Lanka Budget.
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