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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784071003321

Titolo

Funding and implementing universal access [[electronic resource] ] : innovation and experience from Uganda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kampala, Uganda, : Fountain Publishers

Ottawa, Ont., : International Research Development Centre, c2005

ISBN

1-280-71791-2

9786610717910

1-55250-188-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

Information technology - Uganda

Telecommunication - Law and legislation - Uganda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1 Basic Definitions and Concepts; 2 Basic Policy Formulation and Universal Access Development; 3 Estimating Subsidy Requirements; 4 Baseline Demand Analysis; 5 Developing the Fund Strategy; 6 Operating Principles, Organisation and Operations; 7 Subsidy Competition, Tendering and Contract Awards; 8 Monitoring and Evaluation; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Uganda was one of the first countries in Africa to develop a policy on universal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to implement a universal access fund, designed to support initiatives aimed at improving poor and rural populations' access to ICTs. Today, Uganda's universal access policy and rural communications development fund are generally seen as "best practice". This book presents the Ugandan experience – an experience that was unique because of the country's early liberalization of the communication sector and explosion in the use of mobile communication tech