Comments to the Federal communications Commission Washington DC on Broadband Study conducted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. NPB Public Notice #13; GN Docket Numbers 09-47; 09-51; 09-137.Prepared by Bronwyn Howell November 13 2009.

The economic purpose of an Overseas Investment Act (OIA) should be to enable foreign investment that has a positive (or at least non-negative) impact on a country's economic performance and to prevent investments which will likely have detrimental net effects. An examination of both the content...

Bronwyn Howell General Manager ISCR presented Diverse Dimensions of the 'Digital Divide': Perspectives from New Zealand at the session "Digital Divde in Asia-Pacific" at the Keio University Global COE Programme Conference on Designing Governance for Civil Society Tokyo on 5 February 2012.Click...

Using an efficiency-based framework this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to 2007). The framework considers the productive allocative...

The Tyranny of Distance Prevails Internet technologies have been widely claimed to herald an end to the 'tyrannies of distance' that have proved costly for small remote trade-dependent economies. Consequently support for 'Knowledge Economy' policies such as the current plans for substantial...