27th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society "The evolution of the north-south telecommunications divide: The role for Europe"

Papers and panel sessions in the following areas are called for: - Digital divides – their character and how they can be overcome - The contribution of telecommunications to economic growth and development - The development and socio-economic impact of mobile applications - The provision of telecommunication services to marginalised communities - Regulation – its implementation, form and future development - The impact of regulation on operator strategy and investment - Operator strategies – consolidation, investment and innovation - The impact of OTT, its regulation and future development - Convergence – technological, economic and regulatory - The interaction between content and telecommunication markets – development, bundling and convergence - Broadband – spectrum and mobile broadband, funding and forms of infrastructure investment - Mobile markets – national roaming, convergence with fixed, the challenges of mature markets - Innovative business models – content and the Internet of Things - Innovative new services – e-health, m-health, e-education etc. - Online markets – the value of personal and location data, children as online actors, - Big data – tools and techniques of collecting and analysing large datasets, socio-economic consequences of big data - Net neutrality – debates, challenges and future - Internet governance and the control of content and customers - Cyber security and privacy as an infrastructure issue