Broadband Prime’s Top 5 – week 18

Broadband Prime’s Top 5 is a weekly digest that brings you the top 5 of articles that I read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, comments and suggestions by individuals or organizations relevant to broadband developments and beyond. Hopefully, this is going to be a list of good information that you might have missed. I am keeping the number of links strictly to maximum 5 to make the digest meaningful and effective.

Singapore’s eGovernance Award Highlights the Need for a Federal-Level CIO – The author draws conclusions from the success of Singapore in ICT development and discusses the necessity of establishing a country level function for managing and monitoring ICT development in a national economy.

Neelie Kroes: The interface between regulation and competition law – Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes discusses the necessity and the complementary nature of regulation and competition law in the telecommunications and energy sectors.

How Regions Grow – OECD Policy Brief – This Policy Brief discusses how innovation and other growth factors are linked to geography, explaining why some regions grow while others do not. It also suggests that comparative advantages and complementarities across regions will help ensure that growth in one place produces benefits elsewhere.

OECD Roundtable on regional policy – The global economic crisis is affecting families and communities across the planet. With regions bearing the brunt of the crisis, affecting businesses, jobs and people generally, regional policies are very much part of the solution. Feature reports and plans from Finland, Australia, European Union, Japan, Poland, Brazil and the United States.

Issy-les-Moulineaux – A visit to the future: Part 2 – A view to Issy’s ICT enabled future, a south suburb of Paris.