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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 - “Broadband in Asia-Pacific: Too much, too little?” 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 Indicators Report press release
• Download the flyer (pdf format)
• Presentation at ITU Telecom Asia 2008

The ITU has also released its first statistical report on the Use of Information and Communication Technology by the World’s Children and Youth, which the ITU expects to update every four years.

Click here to download [free] report on Use of ICT by the World’s Children and Youth.

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ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008 - New Generation, New Values is a key networking platform for Asia’s top ICT names to come together and focus on core issues relating to ICT expansion across the region. The event will take place at the IMPACT Challenger Exhibition and Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand.

Rohan Samarajiva will chair a session on Meeting the Needs of Society, ‘Promoting Manga to the Masses: Universal Access for the 21st Century’.
The sesion will take place on 04 September 2008 from 11:30 - 13:00 in the Jupiter Room 4-5.

Click here for the full ITU Telecom 2008 programme.

Click here for more information on the ‘Promoting Manga to the Masses session.

The full programme is available here: http://www.itu.int/ASIA2008/forum/programme_preview.html

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Alison Gillwald, Research Director for the LINK Centre and Research ICT Africa!, and Helani Galpaya, Director of Strategic Development for LIRNEasia, both attended the recent 2008 Global Event on Measuring the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland on 27 – 29 May. Galpaya acted as Facilitator for the session Advancing the ICT Agenda.

Gillwald presented a first glance at the data of the just completed 2008 E-access and Household Survey of 20 African countries. The presentation can be downloaded here.

Click here to go to the event agenda, with links to all of the presentations.

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Alison Gillwald, Director of Research ICT Africa! and Helani Galpaya, Director of Strategic Development for LIRNEasia are participating in the 2008 Global Event on Measuring the Information Society of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development.

Click here to download an Information Note on the event.

Click here to go to the Measuring ICT for Development website.

See also LIRNEasia posting for this event.

[16 May 2008] Hopeton Dunn, senior DIRSI researcher and Director of the Programme in Telecommunications Policy and ICT Management, at the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies, will present “Ringtones of Opportunity: People, Poverty and the Possibilities of Mobile Technologies in Jamaica” at a public seminar to mark the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (which marks the inception of ITU in 1865).

The event begins at 2:30 pm. For further information, please contact:
tpm [at] uwimona.edu.jm

Click here to download the event flyer (in .pdf).