The Global Information Society Watch (GISW) 2007 report will include a chapter “ICT Indicators for Advocacy” 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 the World Summit on the Information Society.
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This draft paper published by the LIRNE’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 are then set out. Finally, conclusions are drawn.
Download the PDF of The regulation of undersea cables and landing stations by Steve Esselaar, Alison Gillwald and Ewan Sutherland from Research ICT Africa!
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As part of its research project Mobile Opportunities: Poverty and Telephony Access in Latin America and the Caribbean, DIRSI has released a series of background papers. The research has identified the importance of mobile access to the poor, its process of growth as well as a series of regulatory and market barriers for increased mobile telephony access and use by the poor. Yet empirical studies of the social and economic implications of mobile use in the region based on demand analysis are rare.
