The Scheme is an initiative of the MCA introduced in collaboration with the University of Malta aimed at providing direct support to postgraduate students engaged in research forming part of their masters or doctoral studies.
The Scheme supports research conducted in fields related to the Authority’s work.
Funds will be allocated directly to eligible applicants on a competitive basis according to the general guidelines of the scheme. A committee of experts from the University and the Authority will select the research to be funded on the basis of the following criteria:
- quality of the application
- relevance of the research to be undertaken to the work of the Authority
- demonstrated need for funding
List of thematic areas of RSS 2011/2012
- Convergence of regulation: ex-ante and ex-post
- Convergence of telecom services (content, transport) and impact on regulation
- Regulation of Internet: Reality or dream?
- The impact of information and communication technology on social behaviour
- E-money: options, implementation, commercial and legal issue
- Political and social advocacy groups and new communication realities
- Making money out of new ideas in the ICT sector
- Internet Governance
- Regulation of bundled services in electronic communications
- Ex-post competition regulation in electronic communications
- The gradual liberalisation of the postal services – impact on the Maltese market
- End-user rights in electronic communications
- Rights and remedies in cross-border trading via eCommerce
- Next Generation Networks – the legal framework
- The relation between country economic development and telecommunications
- What customers really want from the telecom industry
- A forecast of mobile and fixed telephony industry in Malta
- Internet Safety
- Digital Divide
- Cloud computing
- Mobile commerce
- eInvoicing
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