Michael Minges Articles and Presentations

§ Wireless Goes Broadband . Presented at ITU Americas Telecom. Salvador, Brazil. October 2005.

§ Measuring the Gap. ITU News. September 2005. 

§ Mercado Móvil del Perú . Presented at Utilities Peru Forum, Lima, 31 August 2005.

§ Digital Opportunity Index . Presented at WSIS Thematic Meeting on Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Bridging the Digital Divide. Seoul, Republic of Korea, 23-24 June 2005. 

§ Is the Internet mobile? Measurements from the Asia-Pacific region. Telecommunications Policy. March-April 2005.

§ Mobile communications indicators and Indicators for the mobile information society. Presented at the World Telecom/ICT Indicators Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 10-11 February 2005. 

§ Benchmarking the ICT Sector. World Bank training workshop. 18 November 2004.

§ Mis-Measurement of ICT. Presented at London Business School. 1 October 2004.

§ Asia-Pacific Broadband Mobile Outlook . Presented at the First Meeting of the APT Wireless Forum. The mobile Internet digital divide in Asia-Pacific: Two personal mobile spaces? Presented at ITU TELECOM ASIA Forum. The Internet on a mobile phone. Presented at the Digital Bridges Symposium. 7-11 September 2004. Busan, Republic of Korea.

§ African Telecommunication Indicators 2004. Presented at opening press conference and Mobile Africa Forum session at ITU Africa TELECOM. Cairo, Egypt. 4-8 May 2004. See an article about the report from the South African Broadcasting Corporation: “ITU official praises African countries for innovation”.

§ Digital Access Index. Presented at Columbia University, UNDP and World Bank. New York and Washington DC. March 2004.

§ “Report on information and communication technologies statistics.” The thirty-fifth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission. United Nations Headquarters, New York. 2 to 5 March 2004.

§ Small Markets, Monopoly and Mobile; ITU Case Studies and Is the Internet Mobile? Measurements from Asia-Pacific. Presented at Pacific Telecommunication Council 2004 Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. 11-14 January 2004. See an article about the mobile Internet presentation by Stephen McClelland that appeared in the February 2004 issue of Telecommunications: “Mobile internet statistics flatter to deceive”.

§ Access Indicators for the Information Society. Presented at World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Monitoring the Information Society: Data, Measurement and Methods. Geneva, Switzerland. 8-9 December 2003.

§ ICTs & MDGs. Inter-agency and Expert Meeting on Millennium Development Goal Indicators. Geneva, Switzerland. 10-13 November 2003.

§ ICT Indicators for Community Access. Presented at Indicators workshop on community access to ICTs. Mexico City. 6-8 October 2003.

§ Measuring Business Access to Information & Communication Technology. UNCTAD Expert Meeting on Measuring Electronic Commerce as an Instrument for the Development of the Digital Economy. Geneva, Switzerland. 8-10 September 2003.

§ “Wireless Internet and Developing Nations.” Development Gateway. Improving Internet Access in Developing Countries Highlight. August 2003.

§ “Third-Generation (3G) Mobile: A status report” (With P. Simkhada). ITU News. July-August 2003.

§ Is the Internet Mobile? Measurements from Asia-Pacific. Presented at the International Telecommunications Society Asia-Australasian Regional Conference. Perth, Australia. 22-24 June 2003.

§ Broadband as a Commodity: Hong Kong, China Internet Case Study. Workshop on Promoting Broadband. Geneva, Switzerland. 9-11 April 2003.

§ The State of Latin American Information Society Indicators. Presented at the Second Workshop on Information Society Indicators. Lisbon, Portugal. 27-28 February 2003.

§ Gender and ICT Statistics. Presented at the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Meeting. Geneva, Switzerland. 15-17 January 2003.

§ “A closer look at South Asia” (With P. Simkhada). ITU News. December 2002.

§ Tracking telecom competition in Chile. Presented at Competition Policy in Telecommunications Workshop. Geneva, Switzerland. 20-22 November 2002.

§ It’s not just infrastructure: The 3 L’s & the Internet in South East Asia (With V. Gray). Presented at INET 2002. Washington DC, United States. 18-21 June 2002.

§ Assessing e-readiness: A review of the Mosaic methodology. Presented at INET 2002. Washington DC, United States. 18-21 June 2002.

§ “Trinidad and Tobago: On the road to an Intelligent Nation.” ITU News. December 2001.

§ Mobile Internet for Developing Countries. Presented at INET 2001. Stockholm, Sweden. 5-8 June 2001.

§ Internet around the world. “Poster” for INET 2001. Stockholm, Sweden. 5-8 June 2001.

§ IP Telephony Around the World. (With T. Kelly). ITU News. March 2001.

§ “Asia-Pacific Mobile Markets: From handphone to I-mode” (with T. Kelly and B. Petrazzini). ITU News. November 2000.

§ “Computing at the top of the world.” (With S. Goodman, T. Kelly, and L. Press). Communications of the ACM. November 2000.

§ “Electronic Commerce in Nepal.” (With S. Goodman, T. Kelly, and L. Press). On the Internet. March/April 2001.

§ Trouble in Paradise: Challenges to International Telephone Traffic. Presented at TeleNor Carrier Event. Lofoten, Norway. 29 August - 1 September 2000.

§ Counting the Net: Internet Access Indicators. Presented at INET 2000. Yokohama, Japan.
18– 21 July 2000.

§ Electronic Commerce in Nepal, Bolivia & Uganda. Presented at Developing Countries Networking Symposium. Yokohama, Japan. 18 July 2000.

§ The Impact of Regulation, Socio-economics & Technology on the Arab Internet Market. Presented at C@INET 2000. Cairo, Egypt. 8 March 2000.

§ “Mobile cellular communications in the Southern African region.” Telecommunications Policy. August-September 1999.

§ Measuring the diffusion of the Internet. Presented at INET’99. San Jose, California. 23 June 1999.

§ “The African telecommunications renaissance.” In Handbook on Communications Technology: Telecommunications and Corporate Networking in Southern Africa and selected African countries. (BMI TechKnowledge: South Africa, 1999).

§ African Telecommunications: Towards a Renaissance. Presented at Afritel ’99. Driving Wireless Basic Telephony for Africa. Cape Town, South Africa. 11 February 1999.

§ Developing the Telecom Market: Universal Access. Presented at Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization, 38th Meeting of Council. Trinidad. 28 September 1998.

§ Forecasting the growth of the Internet. Presented at Market Forecasting in the Telecom Industry. Hong Kong. 25-27 May 1998.

§ Universal Access to Telecommunications: The Right to Communicate. Presented at Seminar on Telecommunications and Economic Growth in the New Regulatory Environment. Geneva, Switzerland. 13 February 1998

§ “African telecom: Private sector to the rescue?” Paper prepared for the 1998 BMI TechKnowledge Communications Technologies Handbook.

§ “Statistics for Regulators.” In Telecom Reform: Principles, Policies and Regulatory Practices. (Technical University of Denmark: 1997)

§ “Telecom Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa.” In Telecommunication for Business in Africa (IOS Press: The Netherlands, 1997).

§ “The Economic Impact of the Information Society.” (With T. Kelly). In The Economics of the Information Society. (European Union: Belgium: 1997).

§ Trade in Telecommunications. Presented at Seminar on Telecommunications and Economic Growth: The Impact of Changes in Technology and in the Policy Environment. Geneva, Switzerland. 20 September 1996.

§ “Africa Calling: Trends in African international telephone traffic.” In Handbook on Communications Technology: Telecommunications and Corporate Networking in Southern Africa and selected African countries. (BMI TechKnowledge: South Africa, 1996).

§ Internet Dispersion in Developing Countries. Presented at the Internet Society Meeting. Geneva, Switzerland. 8 November 1995.

§ Problems in collecting telecommunication statistics. Presented at the OECD Workshop on Telecommunication Performance Indicators. Paris, France. 28 September 1995.

§ “The Pacific Telecommunications Century.” Pacific Rim Business. September 1995.

§ “Towards an African Information Infrastructure.” In Handbook on Communications Technology: Telecommunications and Corporate Networking in Southern Africa and selected African countries. (BMI TechKnowledge: South Africa, 1995).

§ “The Paradoxes of African Telecommunications” (with T. Kelly). In Telecommunications and Development in Africa. (IOS Press: Amsterdam, 1994).

§ Multimedia and convergence: What converges in convergence? In Telecommunications challenges in Asia: a Roundtable dialogue. Conclusions Paper (The Economist: 1995). Presented at The Economist Conferences Roundtable. Hong Kong. June 14, 1995.

§ The Relevance and Role of Multimedia and Information Infrastructure Development in Asia’s Emerging Markets. Presented at Pan-Asian Converging Communications 1995 Summit. Hong Kong. 1 May 1995.

§ Philippines Telecommunications in an ASEAN Context. Presented at Philippine Telecommunications ’94. Manila, Philippines. 21 November 1994.

§ Rural Telecommunications in Asia-Pacific. Presented at Pan-Asian Rural Communications Summit. Hong Kong. 24 October 1994.

§ Asia-Pacific Telecommunications in Facts and Figures. Presented at Pan-Asian Telecommunications Summit. Bangkok, Thailand. 7 December 1993.

§ “Telecommunication statistical data base: a case study on microcomputers.” (with V. B. Dang). Telecommunication Journal. Vol. 56 XI/1989. p. 713