From the category archives:
Here’s a few links that I spent time on during the last week. They worth the attention:
eGov versus We.Gov: who wins? EU decide: Features an interesting report on European Commission’s ePractice workshop on Web 2.0 entitled “Public Service 2.0″ that reflects how web2.0 services and concepts can enrich and enhance public administration process and efficiency.
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I really enjoyed this year’s Greek ICT Forum. It was an interesting two-days forum with exceptional speakers and a few unique take-outs which I provide here for you. They really worth being noted and quoted:
Theodoros Karounos, Prime Minister’s Advisor:
- apps.gov.gr (reflections on apps.google.com)
- Let us dare to create new best practices and not only [...]
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Earlier this month FCC made available a draft “Next Generation Connectivity” (links to pdf) by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Next Generation Access Networks and the policies endorsed by various nations in respect to broadband connectivity.
What clearly stands out in the study is the acknowledgement of the significance of efficient open access [...]
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A few days ago the Observatory for Information Society in Greece released its mid-2009 report on broadband. For those not familiar with this publication, it is a biannual report on broadband developments in the country.
According to the report, Greece had, the 1st of July, 15,63 % broadband penetration (connections/100 inhabitants), which in absolute figures means [...]
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This Monday I came back to the office after my (rather) long holidays (the first true holidays I had in the last 4 years – I admit that I checked email only every 4-5 days, which feels as nice and “forbidden” as eating meat during the holly week!!).
As I am picking up pace, browsing through [...]
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Part of my work involves keeping a detailed directory of all active FTTH projects worldwide. Germany was one the European countries I had little information registered in my detailed addendum. All that until recently, when I finished reading the “Fiber in Germany” study prepared by Seim & Partner.
The authors, Sabine Finke and Kai Seim, provide [...]
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Yankee Group recently released a study prepared by my good friend Benoit Felten called “Open Access Makes Economic Sense“. The study puts the international debate surrounding the “Open Access” NGN business models on new grounds. Benoit challenges the traditional notion, embraced by most telcos, that foreclosing competitive access to their networks is a good [...]
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Broadband Prime’s Top Picks is a weekly digest that brings you the top articles that I’ve read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, analysis and comments by individuals or organizations relevant to the blog’s favorite topics. Hopefully, this is going to be a list [...]
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Broadband Prime’s Top Picks is a weekly digest that brings you the top articles that I’ve read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, analysis and comments by individuals or organizations relevant to the blog’s favorite topics. Hopefully, this is going to be a list [...]
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Broadband Prime’s Top Picks is a weekly digest that brings you the top articles that I’ve read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, analysis and comments by individuals or organizations relevant to the blog’s favorite topics. Hopefully, this is going to be a list [...]
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Costas Troulos is a telecoms analyst and passionately covers wireline broadband and related developments in Greece and the rest of the world. For the last 4 years he has been involved in several consulting and research projects on public broadband investments, FTTH and metro network deployments. His is interested in everything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.