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[13-15 October] Natasha Udu-gama, LIRNEasia’s HazInfo Project Dissemination Manager, will make a presentation at the Workshop Disaster Management and Space Technology – Bridging the Gap. This event is part of the Second International United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), being held in Bonn, Germany.

Click here to read more about LIRNEasia participation in the workshop.

Click here to download the workshop announcement.

More information about the UN-SPIDER programme.

LIRNEasia seeks self-motivated and quality-conscious individuals to fill the following two vacancies: Researcher / Project Manager and a Junior Researcher.

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Deadline for applications: 5 October 2008.

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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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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 & the School of Economics and Management (SEM), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication (BUPT), supported by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC)

For more information: info [at] cprsouth.org
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On 23 June in Ottawa, Canada, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies (LIRNE.NET) network held a meeting with researchers from the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (DIRSI), LIRNEasia, the LINK Centre and Research ICT Africa (RIA!), Comunica, and from the LIRNE network in Europe – Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI) at Aalborg University, and the Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CICT), at the Technical University of Denmark. The intention of this event, in addition to presenting research, was to have a conversation with the invited participants and amongst ourselves. The four sessions of this day-long event were constructed in such a way as to provide opportunity for dialogue and creative reflection on the work of the network, why we do what we do, how we engage ICT regulatory research effectively and ensure impact.

Continue to the rest of this entry for presentation downloads and meeting information.

Click here to see photos of this event.
Click here to read the LIRNEasia report on this event.

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