scholarly journals Understanding why universal service obligations may be unnecessary: The private development of local Internet access markets

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Downes ◽  
Shane Greenstein
Author(s):  
Alessandro Arbore

Universal service is a long-standing tradition of telecommunications policy, designed to ensure that all citizens have access to affordable, quality telecommunications services regardless of geographic location and socioeconomic status. The origins of it are usually traced to the U.S. 1934 Communications Act and, also within the European Union, this principle was made explicit since the very first documents on the issue, as in the Green Book of 1995 or, even before, in the Council Resolution (93/C213/01) accepting the Commission guidelines for the liberalization of voice telecommunications (COM(93)159).


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Rica Yanuarti ◽  
Rusman Rusman

PEMANFAATAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DAN KOMUNIKASI (TIK) OLEH GURU DI SEKOLAH PENERIMA UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION (USO) Rica YanuartiPustekkom - Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaanpos-el: [email protected], RusmanSPs Universitas Pendidikan Indonesiapos-el: [email protected]    Abstrak: Ada 122 kabupaten yang termasuk kategori wilayah tertinggal, terdepan, terluar (3T). Wilayah tersebut harus dipastikan mendapat akses pendidikan yang setara dengan wilayah lainnya. Salah satu upaya pemerintah adalah dengan mengintegrasikan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) dalam program Universal Service Obligation (USO) untuk pendidikan di wilayah 3T. Meskipun paradigma pendidikan saat ini fokus pada peserta didik, namun kualitas guru selaku sumber daya utama pendidikan harus terjamin. Penelitian bertujuan untuk menginvestigasi sejauh mana pemanfaatan TIK dan akses internet, oleh guru di sekolah penerima USO. Metode yang digunakan adalah survei penyebaran angket kepada guru di sekolah USO, ditambah studi dokumentasi. Data dihasilkan dari 141 orang guru responden kemudian dianalisis secara deskriptif. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa mayoritas responden guru (82.9%) sudah menggunakan alat bantu mengajar berbasis TIK. Walaupun sebagian besar bahan ajar responden belum berbasis internet. Pemanfaatan internet untuk pembelajaran semakin diminati, termasuk penggunaan media sosial. Kompetensi TIK yang dimiliki guru sangat mempengaruhi persepsi dan praktek pemanfaatan internet untuk pembelajaran. Rekomendasi dari penelitian ini adalah perlunya fasilitasi dan sinergi secara sistemik agar pemanfaatan TIK di sekolah USO semakin meluas. Untuk riset selanjutnya, disarankan mengambil responden dan korelasi data yang lebih besar agar hasil penelitian dapat digeneralisasi. Kata Kunci: Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi, akses internet, wilayah 3T, Universal Service Obligation UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION (ICT) BY TEACHERSIN UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION (USO) SCHOOLS Abstract: There are 122 districts that are categorized as disadvantaged, frontier, remote areas (3T). Those areas should be accessed to education equivalent to other areas. One of the government's efforts is to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) within education in 3T areas named Universal Service Obligation (USO) programme. Although the current educational paradigm focuses on learners, the quality of teachers as the primary resource of education should be assured. The study attempt to investigate the effectiveness of ICT and internet access utilization, by teachers at USO schools. The method used was distributing questionnaires to survey teachers in USO schools, supplemented by documentary studies. Data generated from 141 respondent and analyzed descriptively. The results show that the majority of the respondent (82.9%) have used ICT-based teaching aids. Although most of the teaching materials have not been internet based. Utilization of the internet for learning increasingly in demand, including the use of social media. ICT competencies of teachers greatly affect the perception and practice of internet utilization for learning. The recommendation of this research is the need for systemic facilitation and synergy to widespread the ICT utilization in USO schools. For further research, larger respondents and data correlations are suggested for generalizable results of the study. Keywords: Information and Communication Technology, internet access, 3T areas, Universal Service Obligation


Author(s):  
Kartik Khurana ◽  
Harpreet Kaur ◽  
Ritu Chauhan ◽  
Shalu Chauhan ◽  
Shaveta Bhatia ◽  
...  

Now a day’s mobile communication has become a serious business tool for the users. Mobile devices are mainly used for the applications like banking, e-commerce, internet access, entertainment, etc. for communication. This has become common for the user to exchange and transfer the data. However people are still facing problems to use mobile devices because of its security issue. This paper deals with various security issues in mobile computing. It also covers all the basic points which are useful in mobile security issues such as categorisation of security issues, methods or tactics for success in security issues in mobile computing, security frameworks.


2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 769-783
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki TAJIRI
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