Tag archive: 2013
Innovation in Asia Pacific: A New Publication by TRPC and NC APEC
The National Centre for APEC and TRPC collaborated to produce “Leveraging Innovative Solutions to Create Economic Dividends: Case Studies from...
OTT: Competing or Collaborating (Indonesia Telecommunications Business)
TRPC Director Professor John Ure’s presentation at the OTT in Indonesia Telecommunications Business at Mastel: Sari Pan Pacific Hotel Jakarta...
ITU Telecom World 2013
TRPC Director Professor John Ure was a Panelist for two sessions during the ITU Telecom World Conference 2013, held in...
Memories and Symbols
This month 2 images caught my eye. First, the outpouring of grief and admiration for Nelson Mandela. There has rarely...
Internet Business Economics and Policy
A Presentation by Professor John Ure at NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on the Internet Economy and...
Internet of Things: How to Know the Future?
A Presentation by Professor John Ure at the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Conference on 18-Nov 2013 college paper writing service reviews...
AIM2015 Mid-Term Review: A Report by ASEAN and TRPC
The ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015 (AIM 2015) has reached its halfway mark in 2013. It is, therefore, an appropriate milestone...
The Philippines
In the 1950s Manila was the banking capital of Asia. The Philippines had more telephones per head than Hong Kong....
Commentary on TODAY,16 Oct 2013: “Epic Fail” for Network Resilience by Lim May-Ann
This commentary first appeared in TODAY, Singapore on 16 Oct 2013. I think we just failed an end-of-year exam on...
Trade Liberalization versus Industrial Policy
Bilateral, regional and global trade agreements are all part of the modern landscape of international economic relationships. They are based...
Just Thinking
There is little point in saying something for the sake of it. A journo, a politician, a blogger, is often...
Another Age
I have just finishing reading the posthumously published lectures of British Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm who died October 2012. Fractured...
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...
In Pursuit of Adequacy: Data Privacy Protection in the US-EU FTA
by Justin Streight In US-EU Free Trade negotiations, making business regulations compatible, harmonized and simple will be the lead. Not...
Try Forecasting the Past
In 2010, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, two respected Harvard economists, shot to fame for publishing a paper that seemed...
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...
Lost and Found in Translation
Words. Here is an example of some, imaginatively (and unexpectedly) cited by the ITU’s Trends in Telecoms Reform 2013. (And...
It Ain’t Necessarily So
In the world of social media and instant online news feeds, what actually constitutes ‘news’ is rather problematic. The 140-character...
No News is Bad News
In March, two announcements were made pointing in opposite directions. First, Google announced the closing down of Google Reader, a...