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

• Mobile Phone Network and Migration: Evidence from Myanmar (Research Paper)

  This study explores the effect of the expansion of mobile phone signal on migration decisions in Myanmar.

• Voting in a pandemic

  This short note allows for easy comparison of the options available to policy makers considering the introduction of remote voting in the context of the current pandemic conditions. 

• 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

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Events

• COVID-19 and digital infrastructure
  On Friday, 26 June, 15:00-17:00 Central European Time (1830-2030 IST), the International Telecommunication Union is convening leading economic experts to discuss COVID19 and the Digital Economy: James Sullivan from J.
• 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.

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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

• Consumer protection in telecommunication services
  In a wide-ranging interview, the Director General of the Sri Lanka Telecom Regulatory Commission (TRC) explained the reasons for requiring mandatory registration of IMEI numbers from October 1, 2020, saying all commercial vendors of terminal devices had to be registered with the TRC and that the IMEIs of the devices they sold had to be registered as well.
• Remote learning: Coverage is the necessary condition
  The New York Times ran a poignant story about the travails of children unable to go to school in Indonesia.
• Fragmentation of the Internet continues
  Once, the countries breaking up the Internet were China and assorted developing countries; those lecturing them not to do so were rich countries which were members of the OECD.
• Internet versus internets
  For the longest time, US negotiators of international resolutions, statements, etc.
• Jio is the future of e commerce in India?
  We like to think we can foretell developments in the industries we study.
• COVID-19 and digital infrastructure
  On Friday, 26 June, 15:00-17:00 Central European Time (1830-2030 IST), the International Telecommunication Union is convening leading economic experts to discuss COVID19 and the Digital Economy: James Sullivan from J.
• Data localization and energy conservation
  As everyone knows, COVID-19 and associated lockdowns have reduced electricity demand and increased demand for data.
• The perils of regulating disinformation and misinformation
  The problem with regulating information is its inherent slipperyness.
• Misuse of universal service funds in Myanmar
  One can debate the pros and cons of SIM registration.
• Public policy for the “everything company”?
  Of the many things I have written on policy and regulation, there have to be a few that I regret, or were outright wrong.
• Global businesses and local taxes
  As suppliers of public goods (policy relevant research), we at LIRNEasia know the importance of taxes.
• High affordability, but Internet use is low: What can be done?
  The ITU’s ICT Price Trends 2019 report was just published.
• Data localization in the time of COVID-19
  It’s not for the user to worry about how services are provided; it’s for the supplier.
• Best form of data protection is what is workable in a particular country
  I have been teaching regulation since the 1980s, using all kinds of text books and articles.
• Need for quick action to double the number of Internet users in the country
  Social media celebrities are campaigning for unlimited data packages.
• Light at the end of the telecom tunnel in India?
  Hammered by retrospective tax determinations and non-traditional pricing plans introduced by Reliance Jio, the Indian telecom sector appeared to be in some kind of death spiral.
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