Bringing Evidence to the Policy Process: A Conversation by Grace Mirandilla

The following is based on a session held at CPRsouth3.

This session is an open discussion between two ICT policy enthusiasts who have distinct experiences and involvement in the policy process—one being a seasoned academic from a developed country who saw how telecommunications and ICT evolved from the 1980s and is directly involved in policymaking and formal discussions in the international arena, and the other an early career researcher from a developing country who, working from outside the academe and government, participates in the policy process through informal channels and public forums where she contributes her research findings and builds her network.

The CPRsouth3 conference and tutorial evaluations have been tabulated and can be viewed HERE

Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara won the Best Paper competition and Cheryll Soriano was placed Runner Up at the recently concluded CPRsouth3 Conference in Beijing, China.

Dimuthu's paper focused on the Reduction of Transaction costs in Agriculture while Cheryll paper looked at the use of web portals by NGOs in the Philippines.

The competition is a new feature in the conference. The selection process is given below:

A research report "Internet Presence as Knowledge Capacity: The Case of Research in Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Reform" by Prof Rohan Samarajiva and Dr. Sujata Gamage has been published in the MIT Press Journal.

The report highlights the importance of knowledge for development and the necessity of internet presence and connectivity as means of disseminating knowledge. The authors have used Google Scholar search engine and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) in their methodology.

The complete report can be downloaded HERE.

Monday 8 December 2008

• Ashok Jhunjhunwala:  Technology primer for policy intellectuals
• William H. Melody:  Foundational characteristics of information economies
• Yuli Liu:   Designing research acceptable to policymakers and regulators
• Sujata Gamage:  Writing a policy brief

Tuesday, 9 December  2008

Friday 5 December  2008

Telecom Operator Strategies

CPRsouth3 Conference will be held at the High Tech Mansion of Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) from 5-7 December, 2008

CPRsouth3 tutorials will be held at the same location on 8-9 December, 2008.

The Conference and Tutorial programme can be downloaded from HERE.

ACORN-REDECOM, a cross-disciplinary academic network of research centers which seeks to advance knowledge on the social, economic and political impact of ICT in the Americas.

ACORN-REDECOM is now soliciting abstracts of papers for presentation at the 2009 conference to be held in in Mexico City, May 21-22, 2009, dedicated to the theme “ICTs and their Social and Economic Impact in the Americas".

Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to the communication and information sector, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. ACORN-REDECOM seeks submissions of disciplinary, comparative, multi-disciplinary or interdisciplinary excellence. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts.

Travel funds will be available on a competitive basis.

Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following:

The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine, is soliciting proposals for original research on the use of money of all kinds as a means of saving, storing, and transferring value among the world’s poorest people.

The Paper presenters for the CPRsouth3 Conference to be held from 5-7 December, 2008 in Beijing has now been finalised. In total about 80 participants from 25 Countries will be present at the conference.

The tutorials for the young scholars will be from 8-9 December, 2008.

The conference agenda will be posted on the website shortly.