CITI News

With the US electoral campaign heating up, one of the main high-tech issues will be the state of high-speed internet in America. A campaign discussion on this subject could be much deeper and more meaningful. It should be about America??s future information economy, about the interplay of private and public initiatives, about a diverse media landscape and about its role as an exporter of information and media products.

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Presentations from CITI's conference "Future Scenarios for Latin American Telecom" are now online.

On April 14th 2008, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information will hold the inaugural meeting of the Network of Research Centers on ICT in Latin America. This cross-disciplinary academic network seeks to advance knowledge on the social and economic impact of ICTs in Central and Latin America, and examine the policy and regulatory issues that affect its broad-based development.

CITI announces a conference entitled "Future Scenarios for Latin American Communications (II)," the second installment of an event held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 5, 2007.

"Net neutrality" is a crucial issue for the future status of the internet as it becomes a major platform for video and mass media applications

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, with the sponsorship of the Telefonica Foundation and the Intel Corporation, has launched a study aimed at assessing the impact of Information and Communication Technologies in the social and economic development in Latin America.

Network neutrality concerns about abusive discrimination by telecom network operators with market power is nothing new. There is long history in the United States of actual discrimination by network operators and consequential government actions to eliminate or at least mitigate the adverse consequences of market power, including unreasonable discrimination...

Presentations from The State of Telecom - 2007 are now available online.

Are Internet Companies Overvalued (Again)? What we can learn from eBay's acquisition of Skype.