December 15, 2007
Session 2: Governance of ICT and ICT for Governance
- Taking e-Gov to the bottom of the pyramid now: Dial-a-gov? – Helani Galpaya and Rohan Samarajiva, PhD - PRESENTATION
- PNP TEXT 2920 SERVICE: A communication perspective on M-Government in Philippine context – Cristina M Signo, Mike Dela Rosa, Villy Ath Buenaventura, Isolde E Valera, and Ella Kristina D Domingo - PRESENTATION
- Why institutional partnerships matter: A regional innovation systems approach to making the ICT for development projects more successful and sustainable – Rajendra Kumar, PhD -PRESENTATION
Session 3: IDRC’s PICTURE project – Fred Muhumuza, PhD
Session 4: Data and methods for research on ICTs
- Framework for evaluating contributions of ICT to capabilities, empowerment and sustainability in disadvantaged communities – Helena Grunfeld - PRESENTATION
- Connected villages as a means of empowering the rural poor: A case study from Sri Lanka – Chanuka Wattegama and Nandasiri Wanninayake - PRESENTATION
- The ICT investment design framework based on needs analysis of rural community in Nepal – Jeong-Dong Lee, PhD, and Hyunjung Lee, PhD - PRESENTATION
Session 5: National and regional innovation systems
- Last-Mile Hazard Warning System in Sri Lanka: Performance of the ICT First Responder Training Regime – Nuwan Waidyanatha - PRESENTATION
- A Last-Mile Hazard Warning System for disaster risk reduction in Sri Lankan villages: Community organization – Natasha Udu-gama - PRESENTATION
- The impact of mobile phone technologies on Medium and Small Enterprises/Jua Kali (MSEs) – Bernard Francis Chogi - PRESENTATION
Session 6: Regulation
- Breaking the Last-Mile Monopoly: The Tailong Model of Subscriber-loops – Kaili Kan, PhD - PRESENTATION
- Universal Access in the Philippines: A review of policies and strategies – Cheryll Ruth R Soriano - PRESENTATION
- Achieving Universal Access through liberalization, regulation, and deregulation: The case of the Philippine telecommunications and ICT sector – Mary Grace P Mirandilla - PRESENTATION
Conference dinner speech: Open Source – The Innovation Enabler - Sanjiva Weerawarana, PhD
December 16, 2007
Session 7: Participation in ICTs
- Beyond the Digital Divide: Creating knowledge societies – Ravi S Sharma, PhD, Elaine WJ Ng and Lee Chu Keong - PRESENTATION
- The gendered aspects of telecom access and use at the bottom of the pyramid in emerging Asia – Ayesha Zainudeen and Tahani Iqbal – PRESENTATION
- The sustainability of Public Internet Access Centers: Lessons from ICT projects in rural China – Zhao Jinqiu, PhD, Hao Xiaoming, PhD, and Indrajit Banerjee, PhD - PRESENTATION
Session 8: Content and Convergence
- Analysis of feasible connectivity solutions based on Power Line Communication to rural and remote areas – Daniel Fink and Rho Jae Jeung, PhD - PRESENTATION
- Linguistic diversity and information poverty in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa – Ranjit Goswami, SK De, PhD, and B Datta, PhD – PRESENTATION
- Content development by communities: Case studies in the Philippines – Rae Rivera - PRESENTATION
Session 9: ICT markets and competition
- Quantifying the benefits to Internet users derived from online applications – Masanori Kondo, Akihiro Nakamura and Hitoshi Mitomo - PRESENTATION
- Reliance Infocomm’s strategy and impact on the Indian mobile telecommunication scenario – Sangeeth Varghese - PRESENTATION
Session 10: Problems and prospects of regulation in the context of democratic governance systems in the Asia Pacific
- Regulation in the context of democratic governance systems: Spectrum management policy and regulations in India and Philippines – Rekha Jain,PhD
- The Converged Regulator in the Digital Age: The National Communications Commission in Taiwan – Yu-li Liu, PhD
