The 29th Research Conference on
Communication, Information and Internet Policy

October 27-29, 2001
Alexandria, Virginia

TPRC hosts this annual forum for dialogue among scholars and decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in communication and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and industry. The TPRC program is assembled from submitted and invited abstracts.

TPRC is now soliciting proposals for papers for presentation at its 2001 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical and/or empirical research relevant to the making of communication and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC welcomes national, international, or comparative studies. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following. Click on a topic for a description.

• Accessibility for the Disabled

• Antitrust and Networks

• Bandwidth and Spectrum Markets

• Community Networking

• E-Commerce

• Economic Growth and Development

• Electronic Political Participation and E-Government

• Evolution of Industry Structure

• Globalization and Regulation

• Infrastructure (e.g. Broadband Development)

• Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Trademark, Patent and Domain Name)

• Interconnection, Peering and Settlements

• Internet and Human Rights (e.g. Culture, Gender and Free Speech)

• Internet Governance

• Internet Quality of Service and Architecture

• IP Telephony  

• Mass Media

• Network Reliability, Critical Infrastructure and Security

• Open Access

• Open Code Policy

• Peer to Peer Networking

• Pricing Structure

• Privacy

• Proprietary Ownership of Internet Space

• Regulation of Online Activity  

• Standards Setting

• Statistical Studies

• The Telecom Act 5 Years Later: Is Competition Working

• Universal Service (Social and Economic perspectives)

• User Studies

• Value Sensitive Design

• Wireless Policy Challenges  

Abstracts should be certain to contain a clear statement of the central ideas and outcomes of the research, in addition to a description of the topic being addressed. All submissions must be submitted via the TPRC web site at http://www.tprc.org/submit/. The site contains a form that you can use to submit your contact information, a 500 word abstract, and a brief CV. In addition, if you have already written a full paper, you may post that online and submit the URL.

Submissions are due by March 31, 2001. No submission will be accepted after this date.

Inquiries may be made to the members of the Program Committee.