Rohan Samarajiva, PhD
Rohan Samarajiva is founding Chair and CEO of LIRNEasia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank active across 12 emerging Asian economies. His most recent book, ICT infrastructure in emerging Asia: Policy and regulatory roadblocks (Sage and IDRC, 2008), is a compilation of LIRNEasia research.
Samarajiva was Team Leader at the Sri Lanka Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms, including participation in the design of the USD 83 million e Sri Lanka Initiative. He was Director General of Telecommunications in Sri Lanka (1998-99), a founder director of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (2003-05), Honorary Professor at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka (2003-04), Visiting Professor of Economics of Infrastructures at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2000-03) and Associate Professor of Communication and Public Policy at the Ohio State University in the US (1987-2000). Samarajiva was Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Post and Telecom in Bangladesh (2007-09).
He serves as Senior Advisor to Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka’s largest community based organization) on ICT matters and serves on the ICT subcommittee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Samarajiva is a Board Member of Communication Policy Research south, an initiative to identify and foster policy intellectuals in emerging Asia. He is a member of the Board and former Chair of the Lanka Software Foundation and Board Member of the International Communication Association. He serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals.
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30-Who writes your SMS Total
I write my own SMS Someone else writes the SMS for me I used the pre-stored message in my phone 4 5
Country Bangladesh 81.4% 14.4% 4.2% 100.0%
Pakistan 69.2% 8.2% 18.0% 4.6% 100.0%
India 69.1% 19.8% 11.0% 100.0%
Sri Lanka 92.3% 6.2% 1.5% 100.0%
Philippines 97.5% 2.1% .4% 100.0%
Thailand 89.5% 2.7% 2.6% 5.2% 100.0%
