http://www.apc.org/pt-br/taxonomy/term/1222 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. pt-br http://www.apc.org/pt-br/pubs/briefs/development/world/statement-presented-apcs-anriette-esterhuysen-clos ICT for development Global access to infrastructure development cooperation OECD open access Brief Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:39:42 -0300 anriette 6611 at http://www.apc.org http://www.apc.org/pt-br/news/policy/africa/apc-statement-icasa-hearings-draft-essential-facil <div class="abstract"><span class="locality">JOHANNESBURG</span> (APCNews) - <p>The <span class="caps">APC</span> stated its whole-hearted support of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (<span class="caps">ICASA</span>) for the drafting of regulations prescribing a list of essential facilities for electronic communications which will create conditions of <a class="glossary-term" href="/pt-br/glossary/term/309"><acronym title="open access: Open access refers to both content and telecommunications infrastructure. In the case of the former, open access designates free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material, primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. In the case of infrastructure, the open access approach is about creating a set of core values to guide infrastructure policy and regulation in a way that empowers citizens, encourages local innovation, economic growth and investment, and gets the best from public and private sector contributions. These values can be summarised as follows: a technology-neutral framework (that encourages innovative, low-cost delivery to users); competition at all layers in the internet protocol network (allowing a wide variety of physical networks and applications to interact in an open architecture); transparency to ensure fair trading within and between layers (that allows clear, comparative information on market prices and services); the circumstances where everyone can connect to everyone else at the layer interface (so that any size of organisation can enter the market and no-one takes a position of dominant market power); devolved local solutions rather than centralised ones (encouraging services that are closer to the user). Style information: APC does not capitalise this term. Source: Wikipedia and Open Access Models: Options for Improving Backbone Access in Developing Countries (with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa), infoDev (PDF)">open access</acronym></a> on a non-discriminatory basis to undersea-based submarine cables. <span class="caps">APC</span> also called on <span class="caps">ICASA</span> to take immediate action to counter anti-competitive behaviour of Telkom, the dominant fixed line operator. Read the full statement.</p> </div> ICT policy ICASA open access Africa Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0300 webmaster 5601 at http://www.apc.org