Communications Regulatory Authority

methodological profiles”. Moreover, activities were started for the carrying out of other
workshops, such as “The impact of liberalization and privatization processes in the
market of fixed telecommunications”, “ Achievements and failures of the
communications regulator: an assessment of the 1997-2004 period”, “Presences, copresences
and uses of Digital TV platforms in Italian households”, “The development of
on-demand services in Italy. Pay-per-view and Video-on-demand: market outlook and
scenario” and “The Italian market of TV production: regulation and market dynamics”.
The workshop on “Transparency of the international roaming” and the
presentation of the book on “Economics of knowledge. Theoretical profiles and
empirical evidence”, edited by AGCOM within a cooperation project with the
publishing firm, Il Mulino, are other occasions of study and exchange of opinions on
topics related to AGCOM’s institutional activity. In particular, such editorial initiative
contributes to the scientific and economic debate on topics related to information and
knowledge.
Moreover, in the reference period, AGCOM contributed to the publication of the
book “The guarantees in the local communications system: delegation to Co.re.com”,
carried out within the framework of the agreement between Formez and the Department
of Public Administration of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers known as
“Institutional innovation - project of federalism scenarios”.
The second aspect of the activity, that is the management of the scientific
library, is carried out mainly offering information support to internal staff, by making
available, through various search options, the knowledge of topics concerning the
electronic communications sector and related topics.
Through a “virtual showcase” carried out in AGCOM’s intranet, it is possible to
search by author, subject, title, kind, key words or full-text so as to access lists of titles
and have a homogeneous interface of the searched topic. Moreover, it is possible to
view the complete index card with information on the location of the works in order to
find them. The system can double the service using both digital and paper consultation.
The monitoring of such IT system includes the carrying out of a number of
activities related to systems such as the regular update of the library collection,
information as to the acquisition of new books and periodicals, the implementation of
the incremental back-up of data and statistics on accesses to the service, as well as the
participation in initiatives for the update of the tools related to the management of ITbased
libraries.
In order to offer an environment which is responsive as much as possible to the
research activity in the regulatory, economic ad legal fields, a “participated” system to
improve the system has been adopted. As a matter of fact, in addition to assistance to
users, proposals for change and/or integrations given by the users of the network service
are accepted so as to improve the quality of the service itself.
The library collection is presently made up of 3,500 books (with approximately a
5% increase compared to last year’s collection), of 220 current periodicals specialized
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