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	<title>L I R N E . N E T &#187; asia</title>
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		<title>LIRNE.NET report benchmarks regulator websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NRA Websites: Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority Websites is the title of a report just published by LIRNE.NET. The report takes a detailed look at the state of regulatory authority websites in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and North America and identifies benchmarking indicators for evaluating them.

Download the report &#124; Buy from Amazon.com
Title: NRA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia at the IIC Annual Conference 2008</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/10/lirneasia-at-the-iic-annual-conference-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 03/11/2008 to 04/11/2008. ] 
Rohan Samarajiva,Executive Director of  LIRNEasia, is an invited session speaker at the International Institute of Communications Annual Conference 2008: "Trends in Global Communications: Capturing the High Ground in an Uncertain World." His presentation is entitled, ‘“Small Screen, Big Scream: How much has the mobile really delivered, how much more to come?” 
 
The event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ITU reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008 (Bangkok, Thailand, 2-5 September), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) launched the new Asia-Pacific Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report &#8211; &#8220;Broadband in Asia-Pacific: Too much, too little?&#8221; The Report focuses on broadband connectivity as a vehicle for content to drive development and build a knowledge-based information society.

Click here for the Asia-Pacific Telecommunication/ICT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia &#8211; hiring in two positions</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/09/lirneasia-hiring-in-two-positions/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/09/lirneasia-hiring-in-two-positions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIRNEasia seeks self-motivated and quality-conscious individuals to fill the following two vacancies:  Researcher / Project Manager and a Junior Researcher.
Click here for more information about the two open positions.
Deadline for applications: 5 October 2008.

LIRNEasia is an ICT policy and regulation think tank based in Colombo but working across the emerging Asia-Pacific. LIRNEasia generates and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia at Telecoms World South Asia 2008</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/09/lirneasia-at-telecoms-world-south-asia-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/09/lirneasia-at-telecoms-world-south-asia-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 07/10/2008 to 09/10/2008. ]   

LIRNEasia's Executive Director, Rohan Samarajiva, will speak at the Telecoms World South Asia 2008, being held from 7-9 October 2008 at the Radisson Water Garden, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

On the first day of the conference, Professor Samarajiva as an invited session speaker will present "Introducing broadband: investment conditions, regulatory challenges and addressing QoS." He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia at World Bank Workshop on Disaster Risk Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LIRNE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 08/10/2008 to 09/10/2008. ] Chanuka Wattegama, Organizational Development Director of LIRNEasia, will participate in the following two sessions at a World Bank workshop on "Enabling Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age", 8-9 October, Washington DC.

8 October, 9:30 - 11:10, Session 1: Wattegama will give a presentation for the panel: "Overview of the Role of ICT in Disaster Risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPRsouth3 &#8211; Transformation Strategies for Telecom Operators</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/08/cprsouth3/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/08/cprsouth3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 05/12/2008 to 07/12/2008. ] The CPRsouth3 conference, Transformation Strategies for Telecom Operators, offers researchers the opportunity to discuss their work on information and communication technology (ICT) regulation and policy in the South with a policy-oriented, international audience. Alongside the conference, tutorial sessions will be held on the fundamentals of technology, markets, regulation, and policy.

CPRsouth3 is organised by LIRNEasia &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia &#8211; evidence based policy intervention via the media</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/08/lirneasia-evidence-based-policy-intervention/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/08/lirneasia-evidence-based-policy-intervention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is naturally assumed that evidence based research and indicators feed into policymaking. However, the degree to which these do enter into policy process discourses and influence policymaking is rarely documented. This week, LIRNEasia had a big win in their attempts to introduce the issue of lowering intra-SAARC call charges into the agenda of inaugural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia report on being a virtual organisation</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/05/lirneasia-report-vo/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/05/lirneasia-report-vo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 19:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIRNEasia has released a report on the challenges and benefits of being a virtual organisation (VO). In order to be able to undertake research in a number of different countries and also to have policy influence across the Asia Pacific region (and beyond), it was imperative that LIRNEasia adopt virtual organisation strategies. To make their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia at International Conference on Information, Communication and New Media</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/05/lirneasia-taipei-may-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/05/lirneasia-taipei-may-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 21:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 17/05/2008; ] [17 May 2008] LIRNEasia’s Executive Director, Rohan Samarajiva, will speak at the International Conference on Information, Communication and New Media &#38; the First Annual Convention of the Information and Communication Association of Taiwan, being held in Taipei.

Samarajiva's presentation will be made available on the LIRNEasia website.]]></description>
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		<title>LIRNEasia Colloquium on Disaster Project</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/05/lirneasia-colloquium-on-disaster-project/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/05/lirneasia-colloquium-on-disaster-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 13/05/2008; 16:00 to 17:00. ] [13 May 2008] Natasha Udu-gama will conduct a Colloquium on the LIRNEasia Disaster Project, which will elaborate the SMS module for this project.

The Colloquium will begin at 4.00 p.m. Sri Lankan time and will be blogged in real time via the LIRNEasia website.

To participate in this event via Skypecast, please register in advance with Lara [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telecommunications Development in Asia</title>
		<link>http://lirne.net/2008/05/telecoms-development-in-asia/</link>
		<comments>http://lirne.net/2008/05/telecoms-development-in-asia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 06:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Ure, Director of the Telecommunications Research Project (TRP) at the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong, has edited a new book, Telecommunications Development in Asia, published by Hong Kong University Press.
 Part One of this new book reviews global best practices across a range of key issues facing the industry, [...]]]></description>
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