This page features content from LIRNEasia’s work on broadband quality of service experience and other matters directly related to policy and regulations in the digital sphere.

For course content from the BroadbandAsia.info telecom policy and regulation courses, please see LIRNEasia.net/broadbandasia

Documents

• Data in the time of COVID-19: what can be done in the global south?

  This tour d’horizon examines the possible of uses of data to help stop or slow the spread of COVID-19 directly.  It gives weight to what can be done in the short term.

• Technology-based society elements in Sri Lankan National Policy Framework

  Presented by Prof. Rohan Samarajiva on 20 February 2020 in Colombo

• Comments on the Framework for a Proposed Data Protection Legislation for Sri Lanka (July 2019)

  LIRNEasia’s comments on the Framework for a Proposed Data Protection Legislation for Sri Lanka of June 2019

• Healthcare data protection in Sri Lanka

  This document is intended to understand the extant policy context in relation to healthcare data protection, providing international comparisons, and raise important questions for Sri Lanka to consider in relation to data protection, albeit within a narrow sector specific scope.

• Comments on the Cyber Security Bill – Sri Lanka 2019

  LIRNEasia comments on the proposed Cyber Security Bill for Sri Lanka – 2019

• AfterAccess: ICT access and use in Sri Lanka and the Global South (Presentation)

  Presented by Helani Galpaya, Ayesha Zainudeen and Tharaka Amarasinghe on 22 May 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Social media users say “OK” to blocking during times of unrest (Release)

  MANY SRI LANKANS REMAINED UNAFFECTED BY THE SOCIAL MEDIA BLOCKS OF MARCH 2018, ACCORDING TO THE AFTERACCESS SURVEYS RECENTLY LAUNCHED IN SRI LANKA BY REGIONAL DIGITAL POLICY THINK-TANK, LIRNEASIA.

• Challenges of data-informed governance in Sri Lanka

  Presented by Rohan Samarajiva at Data Governance event at Royal School of Public Administration, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 4, 2019.

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Events

• Why are we afraid of opening up? (Presentation)
  Presented by Prof.
• 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).
• COURSE: HOW TO ENGAGE IN BROADBAND POLICY AND REGULATORY PROCESSES 2019
  Details and application process for training event to be held 16-19 February in Pokhara.
• AfterAccess findings from Nepal released in Kathmandu today (Event Report)
  Nepal performs better on Internet connectivity and mobile phone use than its wealthier neighbors in Asia, our AfterAccess surveys showed.
• APrIGF2018 – Securing continuity and availability of your IOT, beyond malicious hacking
  Cybersecurity of developing countries is most at risk!

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People

Helani Galpaya

Dilshan Fernando

Htaike Htaike Aung

Abu Saeed Khan

Gayani Hurulle

Grace Mirandilla-Santos

Phyu Phyu Thi

Rohan Samarajiva

Shazna Zuhyle

Yatanar Htun

Blogs and Updates

• What AfterAccess says about COVID-19
  Contextualizing digital solutions to COVID-19 in developing Asia, via AfterAccess.
• Unknown enemy and unarmed defenders
  Coronavirus (the virus causing the disease Covid-19) has two universal problems: no vaccine or drug has been developed as yet, and the diagnostic tools are scarce.
• Data in the time of COVID-19: what can be done in the global south?
  This tour d’horizon examines the possible of uses of data to help stop or slow the spread of COVID-19 directly.
• Telecom regulation in the age of smart cities
  In light of the lessons emerging from international experience, it is important to avoid local-government authorities from being tempted to sign exclusive agreements before becoming fully informed of the implications.
• Technology-based society elements in Sri Lankan National Policy Framework
  Presented by Prof.
• Driving internet use in Sri Lanka: What needs to be done?
  The draft National Digital Policy proposes a target of 70% of internet users by 2025, an undeniably ambitious target.
• Sino-American trade war threatens the Philippines’ digital future
  The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has objected to the completion of the 12,971km Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN), according to the Wall Street Journal.
• Comments on the Framework for a Proposed Data Protection Legislation for Sri Lanka (July 2019)
  LIRNEasia's comments on the Framework for a Proposed Data Protection Legislation for Sri Lanka of June 2019
• Healthcare data protection in Sri Lanka
  This document is intended to understand the extant policy context in relation to healthcare data protection, providing international comparisons, and raise important questions for Sri Lanka to consider in relation to data protection, albeit within a narrow sector specific scope.
• Comments on the Cyber Security Bill – Sri Lanka 2019
  LIRNEasia comments on the proposed Cyber Security Bill for Sri Lanka - 2019
• AfterAccess: ICT access and use in Sri Lanka and the Global South (Presentation)
  Presented by Helani Galpaya, Ayesha Zainudeen and Tharaka Amarasinghe on 22 May 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Social media users say “OK” to blocking during times of unrest (Release)
  MANY SRI LANKANS REMAINED UNAFFECTED BY THE SOCIAL MEDIA BLOCKS OF MARCH 2018, ACCORDING TO THE AFTERACCESS SURVEYS RECENTLY LAUNCHED IN SRI LANKA BY REGIONAL DIGITAL POLICY THINK-TANK, LIRNEASIA.
• Big Tech Is as Monolingual as Americans – Foreign Policy (Media)
  The biggest barrier to policing social media is language.
• Impacting price benchmarking methodology
  Methodology matters.
• Challenges of data-informed governance in Sri Lanka
  Presented by Rohan Samarajiva at Data Governance event at Royal School of Public Administration, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 4, 2019.
• Why are we afraid of opening up? (Presentation)
  Presented by Prof.
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