Funding and implementing universal access : innovation and experience from Uganda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uganda Communications Commission, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Uganda Communications Commission.

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Uganda.

Information technology.

Telecommunication--Law and legislation--Uganda.

Telecommunication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kampala, Uganda : Fountain Publishers ; Ottawa, Ont. : International Research Development Centre, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Uganda was one of the first countries in Africa to develop a policy on universal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to implement a universal access fund, designed to support initiatives aimed at improving poor and rural populations' access to ICTs. Today, Uganda's universal access policy and rural communications development fund are generally seen as "best practice". This book presents the Ugandan experience – an experience that was unique because of the country's early liberalization of the communication sector and explosion in the use of mobile communication tech

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1 Basic Definitions and Concepts; 2 Basic Policy Formulation and Universal Access Development; 3 Estimating Subsidy Requirements; 4 Baseline Demand Analysis; 5 Developing the Fund Strategy; 6 Operating Principles, Organisation and Operations; 7 Subsidy Competition, Tendering and Contract Awards; 8 Monitoring and Evaluation; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-71791-2

9786610717910

1-55250-188-4

OCLC:

62783265