May 5 and 6, 2011
American University, School of International Service, Washington, DC

Building on the success of its first four regional workshops in Paris, France (2008), Brussels, Belgium (2009), Seoul, So. Korea (2009) and Montreal, Canada (2010), the purpose of the Washington, DC regional GigaNet workshop is twofold: Day one (May 5) is dedicated to outreach sessions exploring issues in global Internet governance among policy makers, academics and civil society at large. Day two (May 6) features presentations of scholarly research based on a rigorous peer reviewed selection process.

Deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to February 25, 2011! Submissions can be made through the Easy Chair web site.

Decisions will be made by March 15, 2011.

Manuscripts expected by April 18, 2011.   more »

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking submissions of research about Internet Governance to be presented at the Fifth GigaNet Annual Symposium, on 13 September 2010, held one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), in Vilnius, Lithuania. GigaNet is a scholarly community that promotes the development of Internet Governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study and facilitates informed dialogue on policy issues and related matters between scholars and governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society. Interested scholars should submit abstracts of research papers no later than July 15th, 2010. GigaNet is interested in receiving abstracts related to Internet Governance themes, especially those containing innovative approaches and/or emerging research areas related to the following topics.   more »

The International Telecommunications Society has published a call for paper and panel sessions for it's Regional European ITS Conference, to be held in Copenhagen from September 13-15, 2010.

The local organizer is Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI), which is a research and teaching unit at Aalborg University in Copenhagen.

Topics at the conference will be – but not limited to:

• NGN and NGA – economics and regulation
• Investment and innovation
• New players and platforms in telecommunications
• User roles and social networking
• Regulatory separation
• Universal access/service
• Internet governance
• Media convergence
• Media economics and regulation
• PPP in telecoms
• Regulatory institutions

The deadline for abstracts and panel session suggestions is April 1, 2010. View the complete call for papers.