Invitation to participate in a six week online dialogue: World Dialogue on Regulation: Diversifying Participation in Network Development new dialogue, 20 June – 29 July 2005 <http://regulateonline.org>
You are invited to participate in the next online World Dialogue on Regulation (WDR) session dedicated to the research theme, Diversifying Participation in Network Development, beginning 20 June 2005, at <www.regulateonline.org>. The online dialogue has been a central feature of the WDR network since its inception. During the WDR research and dialogue cycles, the online dialogues invite comments, questions and discussion from WDR participants and observers, based on their own experience, research, analysis or observations. It also provides researchers an opportunity to disseminate some early results of their investigations on the WDR theme. The current WDR theme, diversifying participation in network development, arises because participation in telecom development traditionally has been highly restricted to national monopolies or specified nationally licensed operators, with restrictions against the participation of others in supplying telecom facilities and services, or in acting as intermediaries or facilitators of demand. There is a growing recognition that the full development of networks and services will require a much wider diversity of participation from both the public and private sectors, including local initiatives and public-private partnerships. The dialogue is exploring these possibilities and their implications in the variety of circumstances where network development is needed. The online WDR facilities have recently been upgraded, taking advantage of newer and more user friendly discussion software. Based on experience with earlier WDR dialogues, we have decided to focus the issues and limit each dialogue to a specified period – six weeks. Each six-week period will provide a different focus within the overall dialogue theme. Dialogue Focus 20 June – 29 July 2005 New Players in Network Development: Case Studies, and Experience (good, bad or indifferent) Our collective experience should provide some lessons for application elsewhere. The collection of cases/experiences will be maintained in a separate thread of the dialogue and will provide reference points for some of the issues being discussed. Examples could be a local telephone cooperative, the use of a new technology, a new intermediary buying services for a community, a new kind of business model, etc. Where further information is available, contributors should include contact information or a URL for the project. For further information or a short description of this dialogue theme, please visit the WDR website: <www.regulateonline.org/content/view/172/31/>. An RSS feed is available for the online dialogue. Questions about the WDR dialogue should be sent to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- Amy Mahan +(598.2) 4102979 Dr. Pablo de María 1036 Montevideo, Uruguay www.lirne.net www.regulateonline.org _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
