The 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy

September 28-30, 2002
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 and papers.

TPRC is now soliciting proposals for papers for presentation at its 2002 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.

• Broadband

• Capital Investment

• Community Networks

• Computer Crimes

• Convergence

• Copyright Policy

• Economic Growth and Development

• Education Policy and Technology

• Extraterritoriality

• Identity and Authentication

• Innovation versus Competition Policy

• Intellectual Property

• Intercarrier Compensation Regimes

• Interconnection & Sec. 271

• ISPs and Internet Backbones

• Mass Media

• Merger Policy

• Name Space

• New "new" Economy

• Peer-to-Peer Networking

• Privacy

• Private Governance

• Regulation of Online Activity

• Risk Management

• Security and Emergency Preparedness

• Signaling

• Spectrum Policy

• Standards

• Streaming Media

• Traffic Studies

• Universal Service

• User Studies

• VoIP

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. The site contains a form that you can use to submit your contact information, an approximately 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, 2002. No submission will be accepted after this date.

Selected papers are generally not more than 30 pages in length and will be due to TPRC by August 11, 2002.  Papers not received by that date will be removed from the program.  TPRC will provide online access to all conference papers.

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