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		<title>RIA! &#8211; Towards Evidence-based Policy in Africa</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/09/ria-towards-evidence-based-policy-in-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New presentations are available at Research ICT Africa! (RIA!) based on the findings of RIA&#8217;s 2008 nationally representative household survey on e-access and usage.

Towards Evidence-based Policy in Africa: Access &#38; Usage across 17 countries by Alison Gillwald, presented at ITS, Montreal, 2008
First glance: E-access and household survey 2008 by Alison Gillwald, presented at the International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National auditors and telecom policy</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/08/national-auditors-and-telecom-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/08/national-auditors-and-telecom-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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In a new working paper,  Ewan Sutherland, Research Fellow at the LINK Centre, considers the role of national auditors in telecom policy oversight. &#8220;With almost two hundred NRAs the question of their oversight, or the regulation of regulators, is now a very general concern. The processes auditors general use can and do improve the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICT infrastructure in conflict zones</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/07/ict-infrastructure-in-conflict-zones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent LIRNEasia publication ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks in its Chapter 3, &#8220;I Just Called to Say: Teleuse under a Ceasefire,&#8221; explores the value and modes of access to telecom in the Jaffna District of Sri Lanka. Clearly there is a great need for infrastructure in such areas to replace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benchmarking national regulatory authority websites</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/07/benchmarking-nra-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/07/benchmarking-nra-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kind of information should regulators routinely make available on their websites? Are national regulatory authority (NRA) websites a useful information point? Four new LIRNE studies provide feedback to regulators across different categories of information provision. Some NRAs already provide extensive information via their websites others from the same region offer only a bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIA! South Africa Policy Brief</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/06/ria-south-africa-policy-brief/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/06/ria-south-africa-policy-brief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For World Telecommunications Day, Research ICT Africa! (RIA!) released a South Africa Policy Brief based on the preliminary findings of RIA&#8217;s 2008 nationally representative household survey on e-access and usage. The brief details covers issues mitigating access and cost, and summarises findings in a number of figures; and concludes with a set of specific recommendations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlicensed: The case of Wi-Fi</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/05/unlicensed-the-case-of-wi-fi/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/05/unlicensed-the-case-of-wi-fi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vic Hayes and Wolter Lemstra of the Economics of Infrastructures section in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, have co-authored a paper entitled, Unlicensed: The case of Wi-Fi, which argues that the current day success of Wi-Fi is a combined result of (1) a change in the US communications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counting mobile phones, SIM cards &amp; customers</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/05/sutherland-sim-card-study/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/05/sutherland-sim-card-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Ewan Sutherland, Research Fellow at the LINK Centre has just completed a draft study, &#8220;Counting mobile phones, SIM cards &#38; customers.&#8221; This paper discusses the challenges of counting the number of mobile subscribers in context of the reality multiple SIM card ownership. This has implications for counting the unconnected, for roaming and mobile termination rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mansell Colloquium &#8211; Communication and Technology: What&#8217;s New?</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/01/lse-at-lirneasia/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/01/lse-at-lirneasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Robin Mansell, Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), will conduct a colloquium entitled &#8220;Communication and Technology: What&#8217;s New?&#8221; at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The colloquium will focus on the inter play between communications and the technology that supports it.
Click here to download [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private equity takeover of telecoms</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2007/06/private-equity-takeover-of-telecoms/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2007/06/private-equity-takeover-of-telecoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A working paper by Prof. William Melody discusses a telecom takeover operation in Denmark lead by a group of five foreign private equity specialists and their plans both at a national and regional level. The paper looks at the financial rationale, the legal aspects and the implications of this operation on the network development and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia presents research in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2007/06/lirneasia-presents-research-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2007/06/lirneasia-presents-research-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rohan Samarajiva, Joseph Wilson, Harsha de Silva and Tahani Iqbal presented recent research conducted by LIRNEasia at a media and stakeholder event organized by the Pakistan Telecom Authority in Islamabad on 14 June.
Following opening remarks by Chairman of PTA, Major General (R) Shahzada Alam Malik, Samarajiva and Wilson presented the new improved version of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNE.NET &amp; Global IS Watch</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2007/05/lirnenet-global-is-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2007/05/lirnenet-global-is-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 15:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Global Information Society Watch (GISW) 2007 report will include a chapter &#8220;ICT Indicators for Advocacy&#8221; by LIRNE.NET researcher and project coordinator Amy Mahan. GISW is a joint initiative of the Association for Progressive Communication (APC) and the Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITEM) that monitors progress by governments and international organisations on the outcomes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulation of undersea cables and landing stations</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2007/04/regulation-of-undersea-cables-and-landing-stations/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2007/04/regulation-of-undersea-cables-and-landing-stations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This draft paper published by the LIRNE&#8217;s South African partner, the LINK Centre, covers the historical background to undersea cables. It then sets out the essential  facilities  doctrine  and  measure  taken  in  the  liberalization  of telecommunications and the regulation of prices. The procedural and implementations issues [...]]]></description>
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