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LIRNEasia’s volume of research, ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks, is edited by Professor Rohan Samarajiva (Executive Director of LIRNEasia) and Ayesha Zainudeen (researcher at LIRNEasia), and published by Sage Publications. This well-structured volume will be of great value to those seeking to implement policy and regulatory reforms and improve ongoing reforms.

Click here to go to the full online version of this book.

For more information, contact LIRNEasia.

To order a copy of this book from the publisher, click here to go to the Sage page for this publication.

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Getting a Dial Tone: Telecommunications Liberalisation in Malaysia and the Philippines, by Lorraine Carlos-Salazar, Senior Researcher at LIRNEasia and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), was published by ISEAS this week. The work analyses the telecom reform process in Malaysia and the Philippines where far-reaching reforms have taken place. By looking at the institutions and actors that drove these changes, this book examines state capacity, market reform, and rent-seeking in the two countries.

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The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has just released Whose Summit? Whose Information Society? Developing countries and civil society at the World Summit on the Information Society written by David Souter, a LIRNE.NET associate and Visiting Research Fellow with the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics. The work draws upon participants’ observations, detailed interviews with forty key actors and case studies of experiences rooted in five developing countries.

Download the full text here [in English; pdf format 641kb - from APC link].

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The final report from the World Dialogue on Regulation (WDR) 3rd research cycle has been released and can now be downloaded or ordered in hardcopy. Edited by Amy Mahan and William H. Melody, this most recent collection of the network’s research and case studies elaborates on inclusive and propoor strategies for extending network development.

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Four professors from the London School of Economics, a LIRNE.NET partner, collaborated in the recently released book The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies. The handbook is about the many challenges presented by ICTs. It sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy.
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LIRNE’s partner in Latin America & the Caribbean has published its first book, DIGITAL POVERTY: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives. The book examines the problem of inadequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies within the Latin American and Caribbean context. The authors show how market reforms have failed to ensure that the benefits of the Information Society have spread across the many social and economic divides that characterize the region.
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William H. Melody has a chapter in a recently published book The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies. Melody’s chapter, Markets and Policies in New Knowledge Economies examines some of the generic developments and key characteristics of evolving twenty-first century new knowledge economies that are becoming evident, their implications for market development, and the important issues they are raising for government policy and regulation relating to market governance in the new economy.

Download a prepublication version of Markets and Policies in New Knowledge Economies

Get more information or order The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies.