CFP EURO CPR 2008

ECPR 2008:

Innovations in communications:
The role of users, industry, and policy



Conference website: www.eurocpr.org



*Seville** 31 March – 1 April*



Abstracts for analytical papers are invited on the topic of
'Innovations in communications: The role of users, industry and policy'.



The EuroCPR 2008 agenda covers policy initiatives with implications for
innovations, including services, process, and organisational
innovations.
Papers on policy challenges arising from technology and market
innovations
are especially welcome. We welcome papers on social innovations
relating to
the so-called Web 2.0 developments, including those addressing social
innovation
services and issues related to user-generated content.



Papers can either be concerned with specific issues such as competition
policies or IPR (patents and copyright) or with more comprehensive
analyses
of innovation systems. The agenda includes the issues surrounding
network
neutrality and their implications for innovation in application
sectors. Moreover,
the coherence of different policy initiatives is a theme to be
examined. We
welcome comparative analyses of innovation policies and their
implications,
whether focused on Europe, North America, Asia or other parts of the
world.



Examples of areas to be analysed could be:

• i2010 related policy initiatives

• Policies for new content platforms

• The 2007 communications policy review

• Network neutrality

• Standardisation and interoperability

• IPR policies

• User driven innovations

• Web 2.0 – hype and reality



EuroCPR's aim is to stimulate reflection on policy matters related to
ICT.
Papers must be empirically and theoretically well grounded and bear
upon
policy issues.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 1 November 2007

Notification of acceptance: 15 December

Deadline for the submission of full papers: 1 March 2008

ECPR conference 2008 in Seville 31 March-1 April

Abstracts (1-2 pages) should be sent to henten@cict.dtu.dk



All papers will be subject to a blind review procedure by the members
of the
CPR Scientific Committee.



*Opening session *



Information society policies have been on the policy agenda in all
countries
and regions of the world since the beginning of the 1990s. The opening
session of EuroCPR 2008 will explore important outcomes of policy
initiatives and the similarities and differences between different
regions
of the world. For this purpose, speakers from Europe, Asia and the US
have
been invited to give their critical assessment of policy aims and
results.



There are three speakers and one discussant:



Speakers:

 - Ken Ducatel, member of cabinet of commissioner Viviane Reding, EC
 - Eli Noam, CITI, Columbia University
 - Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia



Discussant:

 - Frans de Bruïne, INFSO, EC