LIRNEasia

Capacity and field-building program to develop an Asia-Pacific knowledge network on ICT policy regulation

Communication Policy Research (CPR) south is intended to be a vehicle for building capacity in communication policy research in the Asia Pacific in the first instance, and then in the South. The core functions of CPRsouth are to organize an annual conference and to provide a virtual platform for interaction among communication policy researchers in the South. The objective is to create policy intellectuals capable of informed and effective intervention in ICT policy and regulatory processes in specific country contexts, within the larger context of communication policy research as a field flourishing in the universities and research institutes of the South.

LIRNEasia has received funds from IDRC to initiate CPRsouth and a leading group of scholars from Asia have agreed to serve on the CPRsouth Board .

The inaugural conference, CPRsouth 1 , was held January 19-21, 2007 in Manila, Philippines, in association with the National College of Public Administration and Governanace, University of the Philippines, Diliman. The second conference will be held in December 2007, in Chennai, India.

For more information, visit www.cprsouth.org