Institute for Technology and Network EconomicsThe Institute for Technology and Network Economics (ITNE) is a centre for the study of the interplay of technology with economics and society. It is based fortuitously in the southern hemisphere but is active in events, research and consulting in many parts of the world.
Recurrent memes and technological fallacies: AI and the Future of Work – Bronwyn Howell discusses AI and the future of work at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society.
Yimi Stempel blockhain timestamping of documents – Petrus Potgieter demonstrates how to record an indelible record for a document on the public blockchain.
The principal researchers write for academic journals, for blogs and other media as well as consulting reports on technology policy and economics, including telecommunications, distributed ledgers and other network industries.
The profitability of flat-price broadband with an over-the-top subscription content product – a research note that describes different impacts of an OTT service.
Censorship by a Country, or Censorship by a Tech Platform? – Bronwyn Howell is a panelist in this recording of a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event.
Hard truths about software – Petrus Potgieter at his CyphAfrica blog.
Effective competition and ineffective mobile industry regulation in South Africa – paper in Telecommunications Policy discussing the 2021/2 spectrum auction.
Does artificial intelligence really reduce jobs? A historic perspective – an AEI op-ed by Bronwyn Howell.
Uncertainty and dispute resolution for blockchain and smart contract institutions – a joint paper by the principal researchers in the Journal of Institutional Economics.
Analyzing ripples in the cryptocurrency pool – Bronwyn’s thoughts about the SEC/Ripple case at AEIdeas
Of cryptocurrency and chinchillas – Petrus’ comments on his personal blog about the 2021 case between the SEC and Ripple.
How much is NZ Covid Tracer really being used? – an article on the Wellington School of Business and Government (Ōrauariki) website with updated information about the use of the New Zealand tracker app.
A tale of two contact-tracing apps – comparing Australia’s CovidSafe and New Zealand’s NZ Covid Tracer – the Bluetooth-based Australian app appears likely to assist that country’s contact tracing system to perform performing more efficiently and effectively in the event of a resurgence of the virus but the New Zealand QR code-based app, however, is not well-aligned with these objectives.
Which Policy Really Stopped New Zealand’s Covid-19 Epidemic in its Tracks? (ITNE article) – in this piece Bronwyn Howell examines the effect of NZ’s lockdown policy on confirmed infections, using official data.
How ‘knowing what we don’t know’ should inform coronavirus policy on AEIdeas, the blog of the American Enterprise Institute.
Corona virus testing and evidence (ITNE article) – in this piece we look at the missing data needed to properly evaluate the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The principal researchers’ joint work can be found on Google Scholar.
Doctor Bronwyn Howell, Wellington School of Business and Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand researches and publishes internationally on telecommunications policy and regulation. In her capacity as an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, she has written extensively on the take-outs for North American policy-makers from the experiences of politicisation and government intervention in Australia’s NBN and New Zealand’s contemporaneous Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) network.
Professor Petrus Potgieter, Department of Decision Sciences, University of South Africa, publishes on telecommunications policy, new technologies and various aspects of quantitative modelling. He is the founder of Smarter Analytics, a consultancy focused on mathematical and computational science for industry and has participated in several projects on the measurement of concentration in communications industries, including the International Media Concentration project of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. He has blogged for many years at CyphAfrica.com, mainly on topics related to technology and privacy.
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