William H Melody, Vodacom Visiting Professor Contact Details Tel: + 27 + 11 + 717-3583 Fax: + 27 + 11 + 717-3904 E-mail: melody.w@pdm.wits.ac.za

Title:
Vodacom Visiting Professor in ICT Policy and Regulation
LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public & Development Management
University of the Witwatersrand

Positions Held
William (Bill) Melody is the Vodacom Visiting Professor at the LINK Centre, Witwatersrand University. He is also Visiting Professor at the Media@lse Programme, London School of Economics, and at the Centre for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark. He is Managing Director of LIRNE.NET and the World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies (WDR) Programme, and is Editor, Policy Forum section, info.

Summary of Relevant Experience
Previously Professor Melody has held appointments at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT), Melbourne, Australia; St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK; Simon Fraser University, Canada; the University of Pennsylvania and Iowa State University, US. He participated in the earliest stages of telecom reform and computer/communication convergence as Senior and Chief Economist, FCC, 1966–71, and as special advisor to the US Government in the break-up of AT&T, 1974 –84. He has contributed to telecom reform programmes around the world, and the establishment of new education and training programs in the ICT field in many countries. He has been Founding Director of university-based centres and programs in five countries, and advisor in several others. He is editor (1997) Telecom Reform: Principles, Policies and Regulatory Practices, used in training programs and university courses in more than 100 countries; and was editor, Telecommunications Policy from 1999 – 2001.

His published work provides the reference and themes for (2002) R. Mansell, R. Samarajiva & A. Mahan, ed., Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions and Intervention. Delft University Press. As recognition for "outstanding research contributions on the interaction between technology, economics and regulation in the area of communications, with emphasis on telecommunications", the Technical University of Denmark conferred the degree of doctor technices, honoris causa, the highest honour the University can confer, upon Melody, 27 April 2001.

Web sites include: Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies and The World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies.