CCOM University of Brasilia

(Tele)Communications Policy Seminars (Tele)Communications Policy is an event organized since 2006 by Teletime News and the University of Brasilia Communications Policy Research Center (CCOM/UnB). It opens the political discussions season on telecommunications in Brasilia, catalyzing Brazil's federal agenda in an environment of selected government/industry/nonprofit/academic audience. The last seminar took place in Brasilia, on February 10, 2015.

CPRLatam International Conference CPR LATAM's International Conference was previously held in Buenos Aires (2007), New York (2008), Mexico City (2009), Brasilia (2010), Lima (2011), Valparaiso-Chile (2012), Mexico City and Oaxaca (2013), and Bogota (2014). The next conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico, on July 13-14, 2015 in coordination with the Congreso Latinoamericano de Telecomunicaciones.

International Courses on Telecommunications Regulation Between 2003 and 2005, the Communications Policy, Law, Economics, and Technology Research Group offered three international courses for Latin American, African, and Asian regulators sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the National Telecommunications Agency of Brazil, and REGULATEL.

International Conference on Telecommunications From February 28th to March 1st, 2005, the University of Brasilia Center on Policy, Law, Economics, and Technology, in connection with the Telecommunications Law Research Group (GETEL), organized and hosted an international conference on "Telecommunications Prospects in the Americas Region and Europe". Ministers, regulators and researchers from Chile, the Caribbean, United States, Russia, Sweden, and Peru attended the event.

Specialization Courses on Telecommunications Regulation From the outset of the new regulatory model of mid-1990s in Brazil, and the foundation of the National Agency of Telecommunications (ANATEL) in 1998, the University of Brasilia Research Center on Policy, Law, Economics, and Technology, hosted six specialization courses sponsored by ANATEL and ITU, in order to establish regulatory culture and practices among the newly founded agency. Since than, more than 200 regulators, operators, consumer advocates, civil servants, controllers, Congress representatives, Court of Accounts, DOJ, and Judiciary appointed personnel enjoyed the academic environment and networking of those special-tailored interdisciplinary courses on telecommunications regulation.

Telecommunications Law Compendium The Telecommunications Law Compendium (2014) has been developed by researcher at CCOM as a 5 volume set that covers and correlates constitutional, legal, and administrative rules and regulation, as well as judicial decisions pertaining telecommunications in Brazil.

Extension Courses on Law, Policy & Communications After 15 years of the new regulatory framework for telecommunications in Brazil, recent initiatives of the Ministry of Communications have reshaped public policies and regulation providing grounds for institutionalizing a functional partnership between the regulators of broadcast - Ministry of Communications -, and telecommunications and spectrum - National Telecommunications Agency. The University of Brasilia Research Center on Policy, Law, Economics, and Technology is now addressing the new legal, political, and technological challenges of the model by hosting extension courses sponsored by Ministry of Communications, in order to establish regulatory culture and practices among the renewed Ministry of Communications personnel.