http://www.regulateonline.org/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,4%207/
Dear Digital Divide members,
This is a reminder that the online Dialogue on Diversifying Participation in
Network
Development begins tomorrow (20 June).
You are warmly invited and strongly encouraged to participate in this forum. It
is a good
opportunity to introduce yourselves, your organisations and your projects to a
large
community of people concerned with regulation and ICTs for development.
Examples of solutions for extending networks that have been successful and are
potentially replicable in other places are important. Equally important are
initiatives that
are prohibited by existing regulation or are being blocked by some other
factor.
I look forward to seeing you a this online event.
- Amy.
http://www.regulateonline.org/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,4%207/
An RSS feed is available for the Online Dialogue at
http://www.regulateonline.org/index2.php?option=com_simpleboard&func=sb
_rss&no_html=1
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World Dialogue on Regulation
http://regulateonline.org
Diversifying Participation in Network Development
New Online Dialogue: 20 June - 29 July 2005
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You are invited to participate in the next World Dialogue on Regulation for
Network
Economies (WDR) Online Dialogue dedicated to the research theme, Diversifying
Participation in Network Development, beginning 20 June 2005, at
http://www.regulateonline.org/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,4 7/
The topic of the Dialogue will be:
NEW PLAYERS IN NETWORK DEVELOPMENT:
Case Studies, and Experience
The Online Dialogue has been a central feature of the WDR network since its
inception, inviting 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 has traditionally been 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.
WDR's online facilities have been recently upgraded, and his will be the first
Online
Dialogue using new, more user friendly, software. Based on experience with
earlier
WDR dialogues, we have decided to focus the issues and limit each dialogue to a
specified period of 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 http://www.regulateonline.org/content/view/172/31/
An RSS feed is available for the Online Dialogue at
http://www.regulateonline.org/index2.php?option=com_simpleboard&func=sb
_rss&no_html=1
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
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