Record Nr.

UNINA9910450697603321

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

Electronic books.

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

Record Nr.

UNISA996625870603316

Titolo

An Account of the great defeat that Major General Kirk gave the Irish forces near Charlemont under the command of the Lord Strabane and Colonel Gordon O-Neal : likewise the transactions of the late King James in Ireland since the arrival of His Grace the Duke de Schomberg