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The Regional Dialogue on the Information Society for Latin America and the Caribbean (DIRSI) has released Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) studies for Ecuador and Peru. Using interviews and a questionnaire administered to a statistically significant cross-section of industry stakeholders and experts, the TRE assessment traverses six dimensions of regulatory risk (market entry, access to scarce resources, interconnection, tariff regulation, regulation of anti-competitive practice and universal service) for both the fixed and mobile sectors. The TRE methodology focuses on the environment as a whole, rather than only on the regulatory agency.

Click here to download the TRE for Peru by Roxana Barrantes and Patricia Perez (in Spanish).

Click here to download the TRE for Ecuador by Hugo Carrion (in Spanish).

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[6-8 February 2008] The Regional Dialogue on the Information Society for Latin America and the Caribbean (DIRSI) is organising a session for the Second Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, which is meeting El Salvador. DIRSI member, Roxana Barrantes, of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) is the contact person for this activity.

Click here to go to the conference website.

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The Regional Dialogue on the Information Society for Latin America and the Caribbean (DIRSI) has launched a new research paper series, Investigaciones Breves (currently available in Spanish, with English translations to be made available later this year as Research Briefs). The first paper in this series is Patrones de acceso y análisis de gasto en telefonía móvil celular en Colombia 2001 - 2006 (Access patterns and expenditure analysis in mobile telephony in Colombia 2001 - 2006), by Luis Fernando Gamboa, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.

Click here to download the paper in .pdf from the DIRSI website.

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The Communications Policy and Technology Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites proposals on the theme of Media and Global Divides, for the 26th Annual Research Conference, to be held at Stockholm University, Sweden, 20-25 July 2008.

Economic, gender, age, racial and social divides have typified global society from ancient times to the present, and are frequently reflected in conventional media representations and output. These traditional divides often re-emerge in the context of New Digital Media, at the centre of which are the Internet, Web 2.0 applications and Next Generation Networks. The CPT Section is inviting further and deeper research and reflections on social context, policy implications and solutions to the related issues.

Click here to go to the IAMCR conference website.

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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.

Download the book - 3.8 meg - 230pp

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