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LIRNEasia, in collaboration with the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore and the University of Hong Kong, is organizing a conference entitled “Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?,” 26-27 February 2009, at the University of Hong Kong.

Sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the conference will address the following questions: Does regulation work? What kind of regulation works? What kinds don’t work? Why do some forms of regulation work and not others? How do we know whether they work or not? How do we isolate the effects of different political, economic and legal contexts? Are there systematic differences among water, telecommunications, energy and transport infrastructure that necessitate particular regulatory design?

Click here for the call for papers (deadline 5 December 2008).

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LIRNEasia, in collaboration with the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore and the University of Hong Kong, is organizing a conference entitled “Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?,” 26-27 February, 2009, at the University of Hong Kong.

Sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the conference will address the following questions: Does regulation work? What kind of regulation works? What kinds don’t work? Why do some forms of regulation work and not others? How do we know whether they work or not? How do we isolate the effects of different political, economic and legal contexts? Are there systematic differences among water, telecommunications, energy and transport infrastructure that necessitate particular regulatory design?

Click here for the call for papers (deadline 5 December 2008).

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Rohan Samarajiva, Executive Director of LIRNEasia has been elected to the Board of the International Communication Association (ICA) for a three-year term. This duty will commence at the close of the 2009 ICA Conference, to be held in Chicago, from 21-25 May 09.

Click here for the current ICA Board & Executive Committee members.
Click here for information about the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.
Click here for information about the LIRNEasia pre-ICA conference event, Mobile 2.0: Beyond voice?

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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 is co-hosted by the Broadcasting Authority and the Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong, 3-4 November.

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LIRNEasia is organising the pre-conference event, Mobile 2.0: Beyond voice? [20-21 May 2009], for the 2009 Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) [21-25 May 2009]. A call for papers is being issued for the pre-conference event.

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly important in bringing people into the Information Society. It is widely accepted that the inhabitants of the future household will carry mobile devices that will be capable of voice and data communication, information retrieval and forms of entertainment consumption. Mobiles are now (and will increasingly become) payment devices that can also send, process and receive voice, text as well as images; in the next few years they will also be capable of information-retrieval and publishing functions normally associated with the Internet. Through such services and applications, industry experts predict that many in emerging markets will experience the Internet, or ‘elements’ of the Internet for the first time through a mobile phone, rather than a PC; mobile payments, mobile social networking, SMS voting are just a few examples of some of these services and applications.
Click on ‘read the rest of this entry‘ for further details on the Call for papers…

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2008.

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