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Announcement
and Call for papers
1st
PhD Seminar of the International Telecommunications Society
11-12
September 2010
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Meet the Experts!
The
International Telecommunications Society (ITS) is an association of
academics
and other professionals in the information, communications, and
technology
sectors. ITS provides a forum where academic, private sector, and
government communities
can meet to identify pressing new problems and issues, share research
results,
and form new relationships and approaches to address issues of concern
to
research, business and policy communities alike. Its network of
researchers
comprises outstanding scholars in the field of telecommunications
research that
are well known from the literature (see www.itsworld.org).
In order
to share the valuable expertise represented by highly specialised
academics and
renowned industry experts with younger researchers, the ITS has decided
to
organise a PhD seminar.
Not more
than 15 students will be selected from the responses to this call. In
accordance with the topics presented by the winning candidates, experts
from
the ITS network will be chosen to discuss new ideas brought forward by
PhD
students in small groups. The focus will be on the discussion of ideas
presented by the participants, and less on the mere presentation of
papers. A
selection of papers presented at the seminar will be encouraged for
refereed
submission in Telecommunications Policy.
The
seminar will be linked with the European Regional Conference of the ITS
to be
held at the same location subsequent to the PhD seminar. Access to this
conference will be free of charge for the participants of the PhD
seminar.
The
seminar will be organised by ITS. It will be held in Copenhagen and
hosted by
the Centre for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI).
Participation is free
of charge.
Call for Papers
Papers can be
submitted for presentation and discussion related to the following
topics:
Regulation of
telecommunication markets:
ú
Regulatory
regimes and institutions
ú
Dynamic
approaches
ú
New
theoretical insights for better regulation
ú
Current regulatory
problems at the European, international and national levels
Challenges of
convergence of telecommunication systems and content supply:
ú
Definition
and delimitation of markets
ú
Supply
chain configurations
ú
Regulatory
problems of converging markets
Development of
telecommunication markets:
ú
Internationalisation
of markets: the expansion of markets through mergers and FDI
ú
Technology
driven markets vs. regulation driven markets
ú
User
driven market developments
ú
Emerging
markets
This list is not
exclusive. Other topics in the field of telecommunications are also
welcome.
Please send your paper together with a CV to
Erik Bohlin
at
erik.bohlin@chalmers.se
and
to
Brigitte Preissl at b.preissl@zbw.eu
Important dates
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Deadline for the submission of papers: |
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1 May 2010 |
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Response by: |
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15 June 2010 |
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Final paper to be submitted by: |
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1 August 2010 |
Contact
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Professor Erik Bohlin Editor-in-Chief Telecommunications Policy Department of Technology Management and Economics Chalmers University of Technology S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden |
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Dr. Brigitte Preissl Editor-in-Chief Intereconomics German National Library of Economics (ZBW) |
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Phone: +46-(0)31-772-1000 Fax: +46-(0)31-772-3784 E-Mail: erik.bohlin@chalmers.se |
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Phone: +49 (0)40 4 28 34-306/-307 E-Mail: b.preissl@zbw.eu |