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This course seeks to provide participants with an advanced working exposure to both the theoretical and practical implications of telecommunications policy-making. Presented in a global context, the course content places emphasis on the strategic issues, the practical applications, the emerging trends and the social implications of telecommunications policies in the first decade of this 21st century. Participants will critically examine the combination of issues, technologies and practices that together constitute the substance of telecommunications policy-making in varied policy environments. We examine these developments particularly from the vantage point of the Global South, with Caribbean case studies forming the centrepiece of the analytical frame of reference. However, the course will also consider case studies from more mature economies as a basis for comparative North/South policy analysis.
- Course Coordinator: Nathanee Martin
- Course Coordinator: Livingston White
The global communications market has expanded enormously over the past decade. Communications has also become more integrated such that formerly separate markets are no longer so. In tandem, the monopolization of national markets has been abandoned in favor of competition involving players from previously distinct service markets. These developments have been associated with a change in regulatory regimes with a decisive shift towards market based oversight. Consequently, there is need for a deeper understanding of the relevance of economic principles to the private and public governance of communications firms and markets. This course seeks to provide such a foundation.
- Lecturer: Kamau Chionesu
- Course Coordinator: Nathanee Martin
- Course Coordinator: Livingston White