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Publications

Universal Services in the Americas -- English Spanish - The text focuses on governmental strategies and programs to ensure universal coverage of telecommunciation services among all population groups in the Hemisphere. It is a crucial reference for the development of the sector in the region. February 2000
In addition, CITEL has the publication Seminario sobre Servicio Universal (April 14-15, 1998), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Only in Spanish. This book is co-published by CITEL, the Asociación Hispanoamericana de Centros de Investigación y Empresas de Telecomunicaciones (AHCIET) and the Cámara de Informática y Comunicaciones de la República Argentina (CICOMRA). Please contact CITEL about obtaining a copy.

Resources

Telecommunication and Information Policy Institute - University of Texas. See the reports on the international agenda.

Universal Access from the Virtual Institute of Information associated with the Columbia Business School (New York, USA).

Alliance for Public Technology: fostering access to affordable and useful information and communication services and technologies in the United States

Argentina

Reglamento General de Servicio Universal (RGSU)

Interconexión, servicio universal y competencia en las telecomunicaciones en Argentina

Brazil

National Information Infrastructure - a conference paper by Airton Luciano Aragao (1997)

Canada

Information Highway: Competition and Culture on Canada's Information Highway: Managing the Realities of Transition, 19 May 1995 by the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission

Telecommunities Canada

Community Access Program, Industry Canada

Peru

El Acceso Universal y la Política de Fitel

United States

Benton Foundation: Universal Service and Universal Access Virtual Library

Center for Media Education Democratic Access and Universal Service

The community connector: community networks and community information systems, sponsored by the University of Michigan - School of Information

Federal Communications Commission Universal Service

National Center for Technology Planning - support for developing strategies

NTIA Universal Service and Open Access and its Guide for Users

Telemedicine Report to Congress 1997 - Department of Commerce

Universal Service Administrative Company: responsible for providing every state and territory in the United States with access to affordable telecommunications services through the Universal Service Fund

Washington Internet Project ~ CyberTelecom School and Library Fund

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