Communication technology

Darin Barney

doi:10.1080/10948009409389740

Abstract

Abstract ELECTRONIC ENTERPRISES: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE by the Office of Technology Assessment (Washington: Government Printing Office, May 1994—$12.00, Superintendent of Documents No. 052–003–01375–4, 176 pp.) INTELLIGENT NETWORKS by Jan Thorner (Norwood, MA: Artech, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–706–6, 191 pp.) COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE edited by August E. Grant (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1994— $34.95, paper, ISBN 0–7506–9593–5, 350 pp.) NAB 1993 GUIDE TO HDTV IMPLEMENTATION COSTS by S. Merrill Weiss and Rupert L. Stow (1993—$75.00, paper, ISBN 0–89324–167–9, about 200 pp.) UNDERSTANDING DAB: A GUIDE FOR BROADCAST MANAGERS & ENGINEERS by Kenneth Springer and Janella Newsome (1994—$40,00, paper, ISBN 0–89324–152–0, 167 pp.) DBS: THE TIME IS NOW by Michael S. Alpert and Marcia L. De Sonne (1994—$29.50, paper, ISBN 0–89324–213–6, 150 pp.) CONVERGENCE: TRANSITION TO THE ELECTRONIC SUPERHIGHWAY edited by Marcia L. De Sonne (1994—$395, paper, ISBN 0–89324–212–8,260 pp.) MULTIMEDIA WORLD JOURNAL (1994—$50.00, paper. ISBN 0–89324–217–5, 528 pp.) 1994 FM SUBCARRIER MARKET REPORT by Kenneth D. Springer and Mark R. Fratrik (1994_$30.00, paper, ISBN 0–89324–215–2, 17 pp.) DICTIONARY OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY by BKSTS (Newton,MA: Focal Press, 1994— $29.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–51364–9, 168 pp.) PUBLIC TELEVISION IN THE INFORMATION AGE by James Trautman and Paul Bortz (Association of America's Public Television Stations, 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036—apparently free on request, paper, 45 pp.) COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR EVERYONE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND by Peter David Blanck (Washington: Annenberg Program, 1994—free on request, 24 pp.)

Highlights

As of end 2011, there were 4,456 mobile and 1,068 fixed connections. Their penetration is less than 0.5 per cent of the market, and they likely belong predominantly to expatriate staff of international agencies working in the country, or schools with access financed through donor support
An example is Connect East Timor (CET), a community-based campaign supported by an NGO named Palms Australia, which tried to address the lack of telecommunications infrastructure in rural and remote areas of Timor-Leste
The United Nations Asia and Pacific Training Center for Information and Communication Technology (UN-APCICT), a regional institute of the UN whose mission is to strengthen the efforts of the Asia Pacific countries to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) in their socio-economic development through human and institutional capacity building, has piggybacked on this notion of using Indonesian resources to build capacity in Timor-Leste

Summary

Executive Summary

“We want good communication facilities throughout the country, with access to postal services, telephone, Internet, radio and television.”. With regulatory and infrastructure changes gathering pace, Timor-Leste can expect ICT services to become available and more accessible to more citizens in the coming decade How can this enhanced ICT availability support national development, reconciliation and governance? As mentioned in this report, while Timor-Leste’s ICT sector is still in the early stages of development, it holds considerable potential to grow as a key economic sector, and to provide cross-sectoral support for economic growth, sustainable human development and good governance. Harnessing this potential requires sustained implementation of the progressive policies, for which right regulatory environment is in place.

Bits and Bytes

Telecom—Data Sector

History of Regulatory Environment

Network Information

Telecom services quality

Reconciliation through Media

Reconciliation through Education

ICT Solution for Administrative Challenges

ICT Solutions for Transparency Challenges

ICTs for the Development of Non-oil Economy

Human Development in Timor-Leste

Millennium Development Goals and the Role of ICTs