The business database is a valuable commodity. However without adequate legal protection the economic incentives required to invest in their creation ongoing updating and maintenance will be absent. The underlying objectives of many business databases can only be achieved if they are made...

The business database is a valuable commodity. However without adequate legal protection the economic incentives required to invest in their creation, ongoing updating and maintenance will be absent. The underlying objectives of many business databases can only be achieved if they are made...

The regulation of orphan works has stalled in many countries. This is mainly due to the complexity of the issues surrounding these works and the corresponding difficulties of providing a comprehensive legislative solution. Yet the problems created by orphan works affect distinct categories of...

Bronwyn Howell and Dave Heatley's presentation at the recent Internet New Zealand Ultrafast Broadband Workshop held in Wellington on 19 May 2010.

Current Comment is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues. This second issue looks at local loop unbundling and whether this has increased New Zealand's broadband uptake.

Presentation by Bronwyn Howell to OPTA Den Haag on 13 September 2011.

Policy organizations such as the OECD and the EU have placed much emphasis on the role of local loop unbundling as a regulatory tool in stimulating the rollout and uptake of broadband technologies and consequently promoting the accrual of economic benefits from electronic commerce. However there...

The Internet and associated networks and devices are intruding throughout social and commercial activity. They are improving information exchange storage and utilisation to an extent that is re-shaping the structure and institutions of society that have evolved over centuries inresponse to...

In The State of e-New Zealand: 12 Months On we revisit the measures of New Zealand's preparedness to utilise and capitalise upon the economic and social benefits promised by the uses of electronic infrastructures addressed in our November 2000 paper The State of e-New Zealand. We acknowledge the...

Bronwyn Howell Presented The Tale of Two TELCO Markets: Comparing Finland and New Zealand at the Helsinki University of Technology on the 4th of May 2007