Reports
Just Thinking
There is little point in saying something for the sake of it. A journo, a politician, a blogger, is often...
Mobile Payment in Sri Lanka: Market Demand Assessment
The IFC commissioned a report on an assessment of the market demand of mobile payment services in Sri Lanka. Reasons...
The Revenge of Cybernetics?
If the “medium is the message” then the message in the age of the Internet is that everything we now...
Singapore’s Regulation of Online Media
https://www.improveyourkidneyfunction.com/improve-kidney-function-kidney-disease-solution-ebook/ Singapore recently announced a move to extend its regulation of local media to cover Internet news websites. The regulation...
Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) Services and Broadband in Asia and the Pacific: A Study of Value and Opportunity Cost in the Assignment of Radio Spectrum
With the digital dividend on the agenda of economies of the Asia Pacific region it is timely to review the...
Access Price Benchmarking for APCC
Access Price Benchmarking for APCC – a study produced for the Asia Pacific Carriers’ Coalition (APCC) Executive Summary 1. This...
Telecoms and Security: Old Wine in New Bottles
A recent report by the US Senate warned that entry of telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei into the US market would...
3D Printing
It used to be the case that a dental patient wanting a crown for a tooth needed to sit through...
Technology, Oh Technology and Manchester City
On May 7th hundreds of millions of viewers around the world watched the exciting climax to the English Premier League...
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...