El presente libro reúne opiniones de especialistas, profesionales, ex-miembros de organismos reglamentarios y encargados de la formulación de políticas sobre el problema de la expansión de la conectividad en la tecnología de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en el Asia emergente....

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have embarked on government funded e-government and telecenter initiatives, with the telecenters being a central delivery channel for e-Gov services. But with rising income and education levels, wide availability of mobile phones among the poor as well as increasing...

Have the Universal Service Funds (USFs) of India, Malaysia and Pakistan utilized their resources efficiently and effectively to promote universal connectivity? Is it possible to devise a robust and parsimonious indicator for measuring how efficient the funds have been relative to the stated...

The key to the survival of newspapers and magazines in the new environment will be adherence to the tenets of good journalistic practice. Crowd sourcing through tweets and blogs will provide serious competition to conventional news gathering, but verification of facts, getting all sides of a...