Training

LIRNEasia and LIRNE.NET training courses provide cutting-edge, policy-relevant knowledge, drawing from ongoing research, through interactive lectures as well as group assignments. Courses are designed to enhance the strategic thinking of a select group of senior decision makers in the telecom and related sectors in the Asia Pacific and elsewhere. The focus is on the most current strategic issues. After having been offered in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, the LIRNE.NET course is now being taught on a regular basis every year in Singapore by LIRNEasia in association with CONNECTasia FORUM (Pte.) Ltd. The next training course is scheduled for 10-14 June 2008.

• NEW: 12th Executive Course on Telecom Reform: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence, 10 - 14 June 2008, Singapore

Previous courses have included faculty from 13 countries, from regulators, government, industry (including industry associations), academia, inter-governmental organizations as well as civil society.

Participants have come from over 20 countries, primarily in the Asian region, but also from some African nations. The majority of past participants are practitioners, either from regulatory bodies, industry or government.

Some of the faculty members on previous courses have included:

• Rohan Samarajiva, Ph.D. (Executive Director, LIRNEasia and former Director General of Telecommunications in Sri Lanka; designed and led the previous LIRNE.NET Telecom Reform courses).
• William Melody, Ph.D. (Managing Director, LIRNE.NET and World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies; designed and led the previous LIRNE.NET Telecom Reform courses).
• Tim Kelly, Ph.D. (Head, Telecom Standardization Policy Division, International Telecommunication Union).
• Rajendra Singh (Senior Regulatory Specialist, Global Information and Communication Technologies department, World Bank’s; Former Secretary, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India).
• Harsha de Silva, Ph.D. (Lead Economist at LIRNEasia; previously taught economics of infrastructure at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; consults with the Asian Development Bank and the United States Agency for International Development on economics of rural infrastructure).

At recent courses, keynote presentations were delivered by speakers of the calibre of Mr. M.H. Au (Director General of Telecom, Hong Kong China), Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya (CEO, Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka), Mr. Andy Haire (Assistant Director General, InfoComm Development Authority, Singapore), and Mr. Satish Ranade (Vice President—Legal, VSNL).

Past courses:

• 11th LIRNE.NET course on Telecom Reform: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence, February 25 - March 3, 2007.
• 10th LIRNE.NET course on Telecom Reform: Catalyzing change: Strategies to achieve connectivity and convergence, September 25-30, 2007.

LIRNEasia also served as the course partner for the South Asia Forum on Infrastructure Regulation in 2007, and held the 8th Core Course in Infrastructure Regulation in this regard.

• 8th SAFIR Core Course in Infrastructure Regulation, 1 - 8 April 2007, Kandy, Sri Lanka

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