LIRNE.NET

DIRSI is a member of LIRNE.NET, a strategic collaboration of research centres contributing to ICT policies that promote inclusion in the emerging information societies.

The members of LIRNE.NET are:

• Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI) at Aalborg University, Denmark
• Comunica, Montevideo, Uruguay 
• DIRSI (Regional Dialogue on the Information Society / Diálogo Regional sobre la Sociedad de la Información), Lima, Peru 
• Economics of Infrastructures Section, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• LIRNEasia, Colombo, Sri Lanka 
• Media@LSE Programme at the London School of Economics Research ICT Africa!, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Research ICT Africa Network, Cape Town, South Africa

LIRNE.NET's mission is twofold:

• To facilitate telecom reform and infrastructure development throughout the world - through research, training, dialogue, policy and regulatory advice;
• To build human capital in the area as the foundation for effective regulation and governance for new network economies.