[Commlist] 3rd regional African ITS conference - call for papers

3rd African International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Conference

Call for papers

6-7 April 2020, School of Economics, Cape Town, South Africa

https://www.monssa.org/its2020

*Digital Transformation in Africa*

The 3rd African International Telecommunications Society (ITS) 
Conference will take place at the School of Economics at the University 
of Cape Town on 6-7 April, 2020. The previous two African editions of 
the conference were hosted in Lusaka (Zambia) in 2018 and Accra (Ghana) 
in 2016.

The International Telecommunications Society (ITS) is an association of 
about 400 professionals in the information, communications, and 
technology sectors. The ITS Conferences provide a forum where academic, 
private sector, and government communities can meet to identify pressing 
new problems and issues, share research results, and form new 
relationships and approaches to address outstanding issues.

The ITS Conference in Cape Town will bring together experts, 
academicians, policy makers and sector regulators from South Africa and 
other countries in Africa, and worldwide. During 2-days conference, the 
participants will discuss a broad range of issues related to investments 
in telecommunications and Internet infrastructure, competition dynamics 
and regulation of digital markets, emergence of global information 
society and many others.

We welcome submissions on a range of topics as outlined below:

  * Infrastructure investment strategies in both fixed and mobile markets
  * Consolidation in mobile markets
  * Digital divides – their changing nature and how they can be overcome
  * Monopolisation within high-technology markets – e.g., how can
    markets be defined and monopolisation measured
  * The socio-economic impact of new technologies – e.g., 5G, IoT, AI,
    blockchain
  * Operator strategies – bundling, content and convergence
  * The impact of OTT on the telecommunications sector
  * The adoption of ICT in other sectors – manufacturing, transportation
    etc.
  * Platforms – their scope, regulation and impact
  * Encouraging ICT innovation in Africa

Submissions addressing any other subject relating to telecommunication 
systems and markets are also welcome. Theoretical and empirical papers 
are welcome, as are methodologically qualitative and quantitative papers.


    Important dates

·Abstract submission open : August 1, 2019

·Deadline for abstracts : December 1, 2019

·Notification of acceptance : December 15, 2019

·Registration open: October 1, 2019

·Early registration deadline : December 31, 2019

·Deadline for final papers : January 31, 2020

·Late registration deadline: January 31, 2020

Contact

·Lukasz Grzybowski - (lukasz.grzybowski /at/ uct.ac.za) 
<mailto:(lukasz.grzybowski /at/ uct.ac.za)>

·Anders Henten – (henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk) <mailto:(henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)>

Website of ITS: https://www.itsworld.org <https://www.itsworld.org/>

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