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For World Telecommunications Day, Research ICT Africa! (RIA!) released a South Africa Policy Brief based on the preliminary findings of RIA’s 2008 nationally representative household survey on e-access and usage. The brief details covers issues mitigating access and cost, and summarises findings in a number of figures; and concludes with a set of specific recommendations for moving South Africa towards conditions that are more conducive to investment in the sector.

Click here to download the policy brief (in .pdf format).
Click here to go to the Research ICT Africa! website.

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The Regional Dialogue on the Information Society for Latin America and the Caribbean (DIRSI) has launched a new research paper series, Investigaciones Breves (currently available in Spanish, with English translations to be made available later this year as Research Briefs). The first paper in this series is Patrones de acceso y análisis de gasto en telefonía móvil celular en Colombia 2001 - 2006 (Access patterns and expenditure analysis in mobile telephony in Colombia 2001 - 2006), by Luis Fernando Gamboa, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.

Click here to download the paper in .pdf from the DIRSI website.

Click here to go to the DIRSI website.
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