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Executive Summary: Second Year Policy Analysis

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, In : Industrial Policy 
Below is the executive summary of my Second Year Policy Analysis, entitled "Domestic Broadband Infrastructure Policy: Laying the Foundation for the Future of ICT in Tanzania."  It examines the Tanzanian government's policy regarding national backbone infrastructure.  Email me if you'd like to read the full paper.
 
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With the recent launch of its submarine fiber-optic cable, SEACOM removed the most significant historical constraint to East African broadband connectivity.  Nonetheless, lac...


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Broadband Policy No Brainers: Cost Reducing Measures

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Monday, January 11, 2010, In : Industrial Policy 
As I sit here during my winter break delving deep into broadband policy for my thesis, a few of the things I was reaching for but not quite understanding last summer in Liberia are now becoming clear.  While the appropriateness of many of the policies are very much context specific, a few are really no brainers that would have an enormous impact if adopted widely across the African continent.

The premise for these policies is simple: they promote and take advantage of opportunities to foster c...

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Broadband Policy in Africa: Lessons from Korea

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Friday, January 8, 2010, In : Industrial Policy 

Africa is currently at a crossroads with respect to broadband policy.  Multiple submarine cables will come online around the continent over the next several years, radically changing the economics of high-speed Internet delivery and driving significant investments in domestic and regional telecommunications infrastructure.  Competition in these markets is highly imperfect due to the high fixed costs necessary for entry, and positive externalities create suboptimal allocations.  These market...


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Incentive Issues in African Telecommunications

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Thursday, October 1, 2009, In : ICT4D 
Note to most African governments: "You're going the wrong way."

Everyone's excited about the imminent glut of bandwidth headed Africa's way from the construction of multiple submarine cables.  SEACOM went live last July, to the thrill of anyone excited about ICT4D.  Increased competition for international backhaul connections has the potential to drop the Mbps cost for Africa to connect to the outside world by a full order of magnitude, from the thousands to hundreds of dollars per month.  Suc...

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Africa's Golden Opportunity

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Thursday, October 1, 2009, In : ICT4D 
This week's Economist has a special report on telecoms in emerging markets that I highly recommend to anyone interested in ICT4D.  While much of the report reiterates what many of us already know, one of the articles in particular got me really excited and essentially validates a lot of what I was reaching for in Liberia this past summer: domestic infrastructure itself can be organized in a way to bring dramatic drops in operating costs.  Given the highly competitive nature of service provide...

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