Columns
Amongst the INEC network we find people who have interesting knowledge and opinions and who are not shy in sharing this with the world. This new part of the website will feature such people.
Less is more (Nov 2007)
It is only now that some perceptive commentators are beginning to awaken to the cost and damage of the direction of the past two decades of sector specific public policy and regulation that has underpinned the telecoms sector.
26/11/2007
Multiplying the Digital Divide (Okt 2007)
It is clear that there is a growing awakening amongst a new generation of visionary and e-enlightened local politicians in cities and communities around the world that their future well being and prosperity – social and economic - will in large measure depend on having access to a future-proof and ‘open’, local information infrastructure. These enlightened political leaders are beginning to understand that there is a better route to an ‘e-future’ than that being promulgated through nationally (and sometimes internationally) developed and driven IT, telecoms and cable-TV public policy and regulation. Not only that, but they are actually seeing that access to such an open public local access network (OPLAN) ahead of other cities in their country as well as overseas, could yield a compelling competitive advantage when it comes to thriving in the 21st century information age. As far as they are concerned, “Bring on a digital divide!”
04/11/2007