Expanding Rural Access: Evidence From Vietnam, Mongolia and Sri Lanka

Rob Katz — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:05:16 -0500

Over the past year, I have posted two submissions developed by Darrell Owen, a former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employee who has been working at the bleeding edge of rural connectivity for the BoP. Darrell's posts and his white papers reflect ongoing work in the area of expanding rural access to information and communications technology, specifically broadband through wireless technologies.

The first post, Internet for All: A Field Report on the Wireless Revolution, cited some early working papers developed based on his experience. In the second, we posted a related white paper and PowerPoint presentation, Expanding Rural Access - The Case for MicroTelcos, that provide a summary.

Last week, I hear from Darrell again – he has just enhanced and expanded his set of short working papers (attachments are in PDF format below) to reflect his continued engagement in this important area. In the new collection of working papers, he takes a fresh look at the nature of universal service funding (USF) programs and their need for significant restructuring.

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