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2.4.3 2009–2016 Decisive and Pro-Investment Regulatory Intervention
2.4.3.1 The promotion of competition
2.4.3.2 The privatization of Ukrtelecom
2.4.4 Regulation. The EU – Ukraine Cooperation
2.4.4.1 ICT benefits from the EU-Ukraine cooperation
2.5 e-Government Implementation in Ukraine
2.5.1 Regulations and e-Government Implementation
2.5.2 The Role of Civil Society in e-government Reforms
Chapter 3 - The Will to Innovate in Colombia: ICT Policies as a Means for Improving Education
3.1 Introduction: ICT Policies as a Will to Improve
3.1.1 Overview of National ICT for Education Policies
3.1.2 The Will to Improve
3.2 Innovating in Higher Education: The Colombian Case
3.3 Enacting the Will to Innovate
3.3.1 The Will to Innovate by Virtualising
3.3.2 The Will to Innovate by Training
3.3.3 The Will to Innovate by Planning
3.3.4 The Will to Innovate by Producing Digital Resources
3.3.5 The Will to Innovate by Researching
3.3.6 Summary on the will to Innovate in Colombia
Chapter 4 - The Role of Zero-Rating and Free Data in Promoting Next Generation Networks in Emerging Countries
4.4 Reasons to Use Differential Pricing, Zero-Rating and Free Data
4.4.1 Improve the Economics for Capital Investment
4.4.2 Support Competition in the Market for Mobile Subscription, Content and Advertising
4.4.3 Supporting App and Content Development
4.5 Strategies for Building the Digital Economy of Developing Countries
4.6 Five Questions for Regulators to Adjudicate
4.6.1 What Perfect or Very Close Substitutes Would the Zero-Rating Offer Foreclose?
4.6.2 Does the Usage of Zero-Rated Application Cost to the Operator Less Than Equivalent Usage of Non-Zero-Rated Applications?
4.6.3 Is Zero-Rated Access to a Subset of Applications Intended to Increase the Number of Individuals Using the Internet?
4.6.4 Which Party Makes the Zero-Rating Complaint?
4.6.5 Is Zero-Rating Being Used to Access a Site for Which the User Then Pays a Fee?
Chapter 5 - Digital Divide: The Case of Africa
Part 1 – Historical and Theoretical Overview on Digital Divide
5.2 Historical Overview of Digital Divide
5.3 Perspectives on Digital Divide
5.3.1 What Is Digital Divide?
5.3.2 Digital Dividend and Digital-Divide
5.3.3 The Internet and Digital Divide
5.3.4 Why Discuss Digital Divide?
5.3.5 Nature of the Divide
5.3.6 Previous Studies on the Digital Divide
5.4 Overview of Factors Influencing the Digital Divide
5.4.2 Demographic Variables
5.4.3 Telecommunication Pricing Measures
5.4.4 Policy and Operational Barriers
5.5 Disadvantaged Groups in the Digital Divide in Africa
5.5.1 Gender Issues in the Digital Divide
5.5.2 The Elite versus the Poor
Part 2 – Mobile Telephony and Digital Divide in Africa
5.6 Cellular Mobile Communications
5.6.1 Cellular Architectures
5.6.2 Impact of the Wireless Technologies on Digital Divide in Africa
Part 3 – Current Policy Solutions
5.7.2 Why the Problem Still Exists in Africa
5.8 Author’s Views on Digital Divide
Chapter 6 - M-Health in Africa: A Situation Analysis
6.3 mHealth State in Africa
6.5 Challenges and Way Forward
Chapter 7 - Leveraging TV White Spaces as a Tool for Improved Rural Broadband Connectivity in Developing Countries: An Operational Perspective
7.3 TVWS Network Setup at Case Study Location-Koforidua Polytechnic
7.4 Operational Feasibility Analysis
7.4.1 Signal Strength and Throughput Test
7.5 Cost Comparison of Deploying TVWS Broadband and 3G Broadband
7.6.1 Policy Recommendation for Digital Inclusion-Northern Ghana
7.6.2 Ghana Landscape and Line of Sight Communication
Chapter 8 - Towards Smart Farming? Mobile Technology Trends and Their Potential for Developing Country Agriculture
8.2 Mobile Technology Trends
8.2.1 Diversity of Personal Mobile Devices and Delivery Channels
8.2.3 Capitalizing on Networks and a Large User Base
8.3 Scenarios for the Evolution of Technology Trends and M-Services
8.3.1 Implications for Agricultural M-Services
8.3.4 Capitalizing on Networks
Chapter 9 - How Africa Can Gain Benefits from Next Generation Networks
9.2 Background on ICT for Development in Africa
9.3 Development Agenda and ICT
9.3.1 From Past to Present
9.4 Issues and Challenges
9.4.2 Drawbacks of New Technologies
9.4.3 Negative Impact of Digital Development
9.5 Platform Enclosure by Huge Companies
9.5.1 Enclosure of IoT Market
9.5.2 Enclosure of the Internet Service
9.5.4 The Future of Africa (Worst-Case Scenario)
9.6 ICT Policy for the Digital Development Era
9.6.1 Reconsideration of ICT Policy Intervention
9.6.2 Encouragement of Business Ecosystem
9.6.4 Promotion of Local and Intrinsic Market (Original Marketin the Flattening World)
9.6.5 Coordination and Cooperation with Stakeholders
Chapter 10 - Rural Broadband in Developing Regions : Alternative Research Agendasfor the 5G Era
10.2.1 Rural 5G: The Truly Disruption?
10.2.2 The Third Century of an Unaccomplished Development Effort
10.2.3 Rural Broadband and Development
10.2.4 International Cooperation in 5G
10.2.5 The Long-Lasting Nature of Rural Telecommunications Research
10.2.6 Horizontal and Vertical Research
10.2.7 Bottom-Up and Neutral Research
10.3 Alternative Research Agendas
10.3.1 Research Policies: Feedback from The Missing Link?
10.3.1.1 Lifecycle management and cost engineering
10.3.1.2 Utility cooperatives
10.3.1.5 Feasibility from the demand side
10.3.1.6 Data granularity
10.4 Examples of Promising Directions for Rural 5G
10.4.1 Channel Modelling for Millimeter Wave: Unexpected Findings?
10.4.2 Big Data and Geospatial Analysis
10.4.3 MU-MIMO-OFDM in Rural UHF Macro Cells
Chapter 11 - Public-Private-Community Organizational and Financial Strategy for Developing 5G Infrastructure and Servicesin Rural Asia: The Case of Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines
11.2 Introduction to the PPC Concept
11.2.1 What Is and What Is Not a PPC
11.2.3 Core Characteristics of PPCs
11.2.3.1 Intention to initiate
11.2.3.2 Expected incentives
11.2.3.3 Expected stakeholder functions
11.3 The Rationale for PPC
11.3.1 The Rapid Evolution of Mobile Technology
11.3.2 The Failure of Competition
11.3.3 The Need for PPC and Opportunity for PPCs in Asia
11.4 The Potential of PPC in the Delivery of 5G in Rural Areas in Developing Countries
11.4.1 Potential Community and Potential Demand
11.4.2 Potential Supply Possibilities
11.4.3 Potential PPC Organizational and Financial Strategy
11.5 Inspiration for the Organizational Framework for Supplying Telecom Infrastructure
11.5.1 Background for the Organizationaland Financial Strategy
11.5.2 Municipality Action
11.5.3 Description of the Organizational and Financial Strategy
11.6 Demand Assessment for Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand
11.6.1 Overview of the Adoption of Broadband in Indonesia,Thailand and the Philippines
11.6.2 The Existence of Huge Rural Commercial Cooperativesin the Three Countries
11.6.3 The Need for ICT by the Cooperatives
11.6.4 The Potential for Network Effect
11.7 Potential Supply Possibilities
11.7.1 The Infrastructure to Be Supplied
11.8 The Role of the Stakeholders in the PPC Organizational and Financial Strategy
11.8.1 The Public Sector Stakeholders
11.8.1.1 Public sector stakeholders involved in the central coordination of the PPC
11.8.1.2 Public sector stakeholders needed in the facilitation of the service platform
11.8.1.3 Public sector stakeholders needed for the facilitationof the 5G network infrastructure
11.8.1.4 Public sector stakeholder needed to facilitatecapacity building
11.8.2 The Private Network/Service Stakeholders
11.8.2.1 Private sector stakeholder needed for 5G infrastructure delivery
11.8.2.2 Private sector stakeholder needed for the deliveryof the service infrastructure
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