My work experience has been primarily on ICT governance, telecommunications policy, and ICT for development research.  I worked with the Office of the President-ICT Council for seven years on a wide range of national ICT issues, but a significant time was devoted to Universal access policy research and evaluating proposals for the E-Government Fund.  From government, I moved to the academe and NGO worlds, providing research consultancy for the University of the Philippines-NCPAG, Ideacorp, Inc., and ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation on e-governance, electronic and mobile commerce, telecenters, and universal internet access. Beyond the Philippines, I did a one-year Visiting Fellowship at Peking University on a research project on telecenters and rural livelihoods in Hebei, China.  I have a Masters degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies and earned my BA Degree in Political Science from the University of the Philippines.

Dr TT Sreekumar

The opportunities that the Internet brings for civil society groups, from information dissemination to deliberation and from service delivery to mobilization have led scholars to anticipate it to be a critical resource for communication and collaboration with its stakeholders.  However, such studies on the breadth and level of use remain limited, mostly on transnational or developed country NGOs, or focused on a few exceptional cases.  My research seeks to understand the ways in which civil society organizations are using the Internet to shape their engagement with contentious social, economic, and political issues.  My current direction is to investigate the implications of ICT and Internet use for non-profit organizations in the Philippines, how this affects their changing relationship with the state and state institutions of control, and on whether this intensifies the role of non-profits in facilitating deliberative democracy or social movement formation.

• ICTs and Implications to State-Civil Society Relations; Use of ICTs by Civil Society Organizations; E-Democracy; Political Communication
• ICTs and Development; Impact of ICTs on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
• ICT/Internet Governance, Telecommunications Policy and Regulation