| 23/06/2008 |
[23 June 2008] The LIRNE network will join the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa for a day of research dissemination and discussion. Participation is by invitation only. The agenda for this event will be posted here shortly.
For futher information, please contact Alexandra Dans <alexdans [ at ] gmail.com>.
The Communication Policy Research South (CPRsouth) conference on “Transformation Strategies for Telecom Operators”, will take place from December 5-7, 2008 in Beijing, China. CPRsouth3 will offer researchers an opportunity to discuss their research on ICT regulation and policy in the South with a policy-oriented, international audience and obtain useful feedback. A training session on media interaction will also be held for participants. Alongside the conference, tutorial sessions will be held for Young Scholars on the fundamentals of technology, markets, regulation and policy. The conference is designed to accommodate 21 paper presenters over the course of 2.5 days, and the audience will comprise 70-80 scholars involved in the field of ICT policy and regulation, broadly defined, including 30 Young Scholars.
Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2008
Deadline for completed papers: August 31, 2008
Young Scholars applications: May 31, 2008
LIRNE has updated it list of events and conferences for 2008-09, and it can be downloaded from the link below. Items that have been added since the last version are highlighted in yellow. We have also compiled a list of journals (English and Spanish) where research results can be submitted for review and publication. Journal contact information and links to submission guidelines are also included.
Download list of upcoming events (updated 14 April).
Download list of journals.
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).
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.
