Appointed board members of regulatory agencies often come from different specialist backgrounds, but often with little or no prior experience of ICTs, in order for them to succeed they must fully understand the complexities of ICT regulation in its wider context. It is also paramount for board members to recognise opportunities and challenges that ICT regulation poses within the sector. The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, with its long history of capacity building, is ideally placed to equip these senior decision makers with the know how to deliver on their core responsibilities as board members.

• • Introduction to Broadcast regulation
  • The economics of regulation: Options for action
  • Regulation in practice
  • Industry presentations
  • The arguments for and against Universal Service Funds