The Passenger Reservation System of Indian Railways is a major computer application in a visible, consumer sensitive area. The involves a distributed database, spread over five host computers located in five metropolitan cities in India, and terminals located in more than 22 cities. The...

The commercial potential of wireless applications has brought spectrum policies to the forefront of regulatory arena. In the context of rapidly increasing demands on spectrum, regulators have to adopt refarming so as to be able to provide spectrum for new services. A variety of models have been...

The Thai economy has been registering high economic growth rates since late eighties. The average growth rate has been around 10 percent per annum. Consequently, the business opportunities have increased, creating a demand for greater telecom services. However, the investments in telecom sector...

The Malaysian economy has been growing rapidly, with concomitant demand for telecom services. With a view to reducing the role of the government in economy and introducing efficiency, the government planned to corporatize public sector organizations as a first step forward privatization. The...

The commercial potential of wireless applications has brought spectrum policies to the forefront of regulatory arena. The visibility of the telecom sector and the prior experience of 3G licensing in Europe and UK have made several Asian regulators and policy makers wary of using auctions. This...

Indonesia experienced economic growth rates 5.5 to 7.0 per cent per year since the late eighties and early nineties, resulting in greater demand for telecom services. But, like many other developing countries, Indonesia had a low level of telecom infrastructure development. Consequently, the...

Recognizing that national competitiveness depends on the availability and quality of national Information and Communication Technology networks that support higher education (HE) and research, many countries have developed such infrastructure for their publicly funded HE and research institutes....

We have looked at the relationship between organisational processes/ mechanisms for development, adoption and implementation of national knowledge network in the institutes of higher education and research and the organisational and individual level outcomes in those institutes. Our findings,...

Designing MIS for large public programs is a complex task more so in a developing country context. While the potential need and utility of computer based management information systems (MIS) is obvious, the actual application poses challenging problems regarding system design, implementation,...

New technology based start-ups play a very important role in developing the economy of a country. In India, telecom sector has seen unprecedented growth over the last decade and this has led to emergence of several telecom related start-ups. However, product based B2B start-ups are rare and...