Regulation Key readings
Regulation
In each of our niche areas, the CTO provides a regularly updated list of the key literature that we believe is of the most importance for people working in the field. In so doing, we draw particularly on the advice of our Advisory Boards.
Key material on ICT Regulation includes:
- Wireless World Research Forum (2013) Outlook 10 – User Interfaces: Past, Present and Future
- Wireless World Research Forum (2013) Outlook 9 – Multi-RAT Network Architecture
- Africa Wireless Communications Africa Wireless Communications Yearbook 2020
- Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-20) The regulatory wheel of change: Regulation for digital transformation
- Best Practice Guidelines from the Global Symposium for Regulators The gold standard for digital regulation
- Communications and Strategies InfoDev Technological Convergence and regulation: Challenges facing developing countries
- Research ICT Africa Comparative ICT Sector Performance Review 2009/2010
- GSMA (2019) Mobile Policy Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to the Issues, London: GSMA.
- GSMA/Ladcomm (2013) Universal Service Fund Study, London: GSMA
- GSMA/Ladcomm (2014) Sub-Saharan Africa – Universal Service Fund Study, London: GSMA
- ICT Regulation Toolkit (a joint ITU/Infodev Toolkit for Regulators to assist the design of effective and enabling regulatory frameworks to harness the latest technological and market advance), ITU, Infodev
- IST-Africa (2012) Guide to ICT Policy in IST-Africa Partner Countries, IST-Africa
- ITU (2011) HIPSSA – SADC Toolkit on Universal Access Funding and Universal Service Fund Implementation, ITU
- ITU (2007) Regulatory and Policy Implications of Emerging Technologies to Spectrum Management, Geneva: ITU
Focus on Digital Broadcasting Switchover:
- Digital Switchover in Broadcasting – A BIPE Consulting Study for the European Commission (Directorate General Information Society)
- Farncombe and Plum Consulting, with GSMA (2013) Practical Recommendations for Digital Switch Over, London: Farncombe and Plum Consulting, with GSMA
- Kovacs, N., and Stone, M., (eds) (2010) Guide to the Digital Switchover, OSCE
- Ministry of Economic Development (2008), Digital Broadcasting: Review of Regulation – Volume Two (Discussion Paper), Ministry of Culture and Heritage, New Zealand
- Walop, P., Doeven, J., and Hwang, G-Y., (eds) (2010) Guidelines for the Transition From Analogue to Digital Broadcasting, Geneva: ITU
Further Information:
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