Reports
The internet: Innovation, Data flows and Markets
APEC Conference on Innovation and Trade April 4-5 2012, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Singapore Keynote speaker: Prof. John Ure Downloads...
Eye on Myanmar
The Burmese ICT Landscape Myanmar has been hitting the right notes in the news media recently. Since the April 1st...
How Unassailable is Facebook?
2012 is scheduled as the year Facebook goes public. It has been well advertised that Facebook does not need the...
3G Auctions: A Change of Course (in Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions & Intervention)
3G Auctions: A Change of Course in Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions & Intervention Edited by Robin Mansell, Rohan...
Bottom of the Pyramid and Mobile Payments
Approximately half the world’s population of over 6 billion people has access to a mobile phone and over 80 per...
Artificial Intelligence – More Brawn than Brain?
The IT world is getting faster all the time. Telcos are upgrading to high speed broadband NGNs; the processing power...
When the Internet Went on Strike
On 18 January 2012 the Internet went on strike. Wikipedia and a whole host of Internet sites went dark for...
Capitalism and social services
Sir, Lawrence Summers and Samuel Brittan, in the “Capitalism in Crisis” series, complement each other in important ways. Prof Summers...
Year of the Dragonet?
Early in 2011 it was revealed that China was going ahead with an experiment to set up an Internet Special...
ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015
As various free trade negotiations hit the headlines –AFTA, TPP, BTAs, etc – ASEAN seems to be finding a new...
The Business Dynamics of Social Network Sites (SNS)
Social networking has become global based as it is on the Internet. Less certain has been its transformation into sustainable...
Steve Jobs (1955-2011): A Man of Our Times
Obituaries are best written before death, and in the media they are. They can be written in relative calm and...
The Business Dynamics of Social Network Sites
Social networking has become global, based as it is on the Internet. Less certain has been its transformation into sustainable...
Regulation Wars
The need for regulation arises for 3 reasons: to assign scarce resources; to protect citizens; and to promote public policy....
Phony Patent Wars
Anyone following technology markets cannot have missed the growing use of patent wars to cripple or extort or hamper or...
Wither Media?
The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in the UK had nothing directly to do with competition from...
The Death of Telecommunications
The profits warning by KPN (Netherlands) in Apr set off alarm signals. When the CTIA, the wireless telecoms industry association...
Beyond Borders: The Implications of ICT on Trade
Digitization & web boom in the past two decades has led to the evolution of IP issues. There is a huge...
Beyond Borders: The Implications of ICT on Trade
The digitization and web boom in the past two decades has led to the evolution of IP issues. There is...
Social Networking and the Grassroots Voice
In 1381 the nobility of England were rocked by the Peasants Revolt. There was no Facebook. In 1848 the ruling...
Japan’s Tragedy
Natural disasters are at one and the same time to be expected and yet shock us to the core when...