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		<title>Global Information Society Watch 2008</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/12/global-information-society-watch-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association for Progressive Communication (APC), the Third World Institute (ITeM), and Dutch development organisation Hivos, launched the watchdog report Global Information Society Watch (GISW 2008) at the Third Internet Governance Forum in India. It is the second edition of this landmark report and focused on &#8220;access to infrastructure&#8221;.
Click here to go to the GISW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Rights &#8211; Using the SPARC Author Addendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. The Author Addendum is a free resource developed by SPARC in partnership with Creative Commons and Science Commons, established non-profit organizations that offer a range of copyright options for many different creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New issue of nb!ict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies &#8211; nb!ict - is an international journal promoting debate on ICT developments among academics, analysts, professionals and practitioners. The theme of the November 2008 issue is New Mobile Technologies and Services: Business Models and Adoption. In addition, the development of telecommunications in Greenland is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Internet Governance Forum&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alison Gillwald, director of Research ICT Africa!, and Helani Galpaya, director of Strategic Development for LIRNEasia, are attending the 3rd Internet Governance Forum (IGF) this week in Hydrabad, India.
Gillwald is a panelist for the first main session on Access: Reaching the Next Billion(s).
Click here for the transcript of the Access session.
Galapaya will participate as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rigorous rulings breathe life into paralysed sector</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/11/rigorous-rulings-breathe-life-into-paralysed-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Alison Gillwald, director of the Research ICT Africa (RIA!) network, in her article published in South Africa&#8217;s Business Day, reports on the significance and implications of the most recent ruling by the Pretoria High Court denying the Communications Minister&#8217;s application for an urgent interdict to prevent South Africa regulatory authority (ICASA) from issuing certain licences.
&#8220;While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sixth Caribbean Internet Forum Event Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participants from policy and regulatory agencies, telecommunications operators and ISPs, the private and public sector, educators and civil society organizations, as well as interested individuals, recently came together, in Trinidad and Tobago, to discuss the potential for mobile Internet technology to promote economic and social development in the Caribbean and to contemplate what is required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing of the MRP (Telecommunications) programme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of the West Indies 2008 graduation ceremony saw the graduation of the third and final cohort of The University of the West Indies Master&#8217;s degree in Regulation and Policy (MRP) programme. This programme, which was delivered through the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, offered a specialization in telecommunications intended to meet the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for papers: Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIRNEasia, in collaboration with the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore and the University of Hong Kong, is organizing a conference entitled &#8220;Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?,&#8221; 26-27 February, 2009, at the University of Hong Kong.
Sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia introduces affordable mobile devices and services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building on a long standing commitment of offering low cost mobile handsets, Nokia has announced initiatives to expand &#8220;that vision by introducing a number of devices and services that aim to bring the power of the Internet to these markets as well. The mobile device and the Internet are a powerful combination in connecting people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia Executive Director elected to ICA Board</title>
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		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/11/lirneasia-ed-elected-to-ica-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rohan Samarajiva, Executive Director of LIRNEasia has been elected to the Board of the International Communication Association (ICA) for a three-year term. This duty will commence at the close of the 2009 ICA Conference, to be held in Chicago, from 21-25 May 09.
Click here for the current ICA Board &#38; Executive Committee members.
Click here for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal plunges telecoms sector back into limbo</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/10/appeal-plunges-telecoms-sector-back-into-limbo/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/10/appeal-plunges-telecoms-sector-back-into-limbo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Alison Gillwald, director of the Research ICT Africa (RIA!) network, in her article published in Business Day observes &#8220;the significance of the communications ministry’s decision to appeal against a recent high court ruling setting aside certain prohibitions in the telecommunications sector and the upholding of the automatic conversion of rights into the new licensing regime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Panels and Workshops &#8211; ICTD2009</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/10/ictd2009-3rd-ieee-acm-international-conference-on-ict-and-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The organizers of the 3rd IEEE/ ACM International Conference on ICT and Development, ICTD2009 Conference (17-19 April 2009 at the Carnegie-Mellon campus in Doha, Qatar), would like to spur reflective dialogue among researchers and between researchers and development practitioners. Therefore a small number of panels will be chosen to be added to the program.
Panel proposals [...]]]></description>
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