Reports
The Future of Digital Entertainment: Interactive TV Revisited
Paper by Dr. Balz Wyss (Seattle) and Mimi Vong (Hong Kong).
Government Online
Presented at APEC Telecoms Working Group (Canberra, Australia - March 2001) and IBM’s E-Government Briefings (Melbourne, Canberra, and Sydney, Australia - June 2001).
Electronic Commerce and Asia
Presentation to the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Siam City Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, 23-25 May 2001.
Modelling Critical Mass for E-Commerce: The Case of Hong Kong
Updated version of a paper that first appeared in March 2000, using data collected December 2000.
Response Paper to Licensing Framework for 3G Mobile Services
Response to OFTA's 3G consultation process, including analysis of Comments Received, Preliminary Conclusions, and Further Industry Consultation.
Third Generation Mobile: To Auction or Not to Auction?
Response to OFTA's Consultation Paper and Reply to Jake van der Kamp, Monitor Column, SCMP.
The Era of International Simple Resale: Not Waving, But Drowning?
Paper published in Telecommunications Policy v.24.2, February 2000.
Broadband Interconnection
A Response to the Consultation of OFTA, 3 November 1999.
Hong Kong as an Internet Financial Hub
Telecoms Infotech Forum (TIF) position paper, September 1999.
Television Policy In An Era of Convergence
Telecoms Infotech Forum (TIF) position paper, January 1999.
The Internet in China
Paper presented at the (Mis)Communicating Across Boundaries Conference, 48th Annual Conference of the International Communications Association, Jerusalem, Israel, 20-24 July 1998.
Telecommunications Policy in China: A Two-Tier Bargaining Model
Telecommunications has become one of the anointed ‘pillar industries’ of China’s economic reform program.
Home Computers and Networking In Hong Kong
Results of 1994, 1996, and 1998 TRP surveys on home computers and networking in Hong Kong.
Information society In Hong Kong and Other Asian ‘Tiger’ Economies
For Hong Kong, an island-economy dependent upon its competitiveness as a world financial and trading centre, and as an entrepot to China, the challenge of information technologies is particularly intriguing.
Telecommunications in China – More Than Was Bargained For?
Article published in New Technology Quarterly, Q4, 1997.
China Telecoms: Regulations and Market Forces
Paper presented at China Telecoms: Finance, Investment and Regulation IIR Conferences, 5-6 May 1997.
The Economic Benefits of Telecoms Liberalization in Hong Kong
A revised and updated version of a study undertaken August-October 1997 on behalf of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation (HKCPEC).
Hong Kong’s Communication Infrastructure: The Evolving Role of a Regional Information Hub
Hong Kong has become in recent years an important regional information and telecommunications hub.
Technology Transfer and Hong Kong’s Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing Sector
Analysis of survey results on technology transfers taking place in Hong Kong’s manufacturing of telecommunications components and equipment sector.
Telecommunications and Privatization in Asia
Paper presented at the 23rd Pacific Trade and Development Conference, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, 8-11 December 1996.
Home Computers and Networking in Hong Kong
Paper presenting survey results on the diffusion of computers in homes, as well as on their use for communications beyond the home.