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- Role(s):
- Research
- Topic(s) of work:
- Diversity / Inclusion, Information Society (and cognates), Development, ICT4D
Description
DIRSI is a network of professionals and academic institutions that seeks to create knowledge to support policymaking that promotes effective participation of poor and marginalized communities of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Information Society.
Our research program will be divided into two kinds of activities:- Collaborative research projects. The main activity of DIRSI is undertaking research projects under its four broad themes (digital poverty; new models of network ownership and management; pro-poor universal service; regulatory tools to promote ICT access, participation, and empowerment by the poor).
- Contingency Research Fund. DIRSI aims at interacting closely national regulators, multilateral institutions and civil society organizations, so as to respond to research questions posed by these entities in view of specific problems they seek to address.
Publications and Resources
Books
- Hernan Galperin, Judith Mariscal. Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives. ITDG, 2007
Members (People)
- Roxana Barantes, Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Quito, Peru
- Gover Barja, Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB), Bolivia
- Hopeton Dunn, Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies - Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica
- Jorge Dussan Hitscherich, School of Law, Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
- Hernan Galperin, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Amy Mahan
- Kim Mallalieu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad And Tobago
- Judith Mariscal, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economica (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico
- Michele Rioux, Département de science politique / Department of Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal / University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Marlon Tabora, Telecommunications Consultant, Honduras