[ecrea] PhD summer school on the Political Economy of ICT4D

PhD Summer School on the Political Economy of ICT4D

Dates: Monday 12 September to Friday 16 September 2016

Venue: Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

Organizer: Center for Communication, Media and Information technologies 
(CMI), AAU Copenhagen

Website: http://www.phdsummerschool.cmi.aau.dk/

Registration: http://www.phdsummerschool.cmi.aau.dk/signup/

Deadline for registration: 1 August 2016

The summer school on the Political Economy of Information and 
Communication Technologies (ICT) is a PhD course focusing on the 
interplay between technology developments and policy and regulation and 
market and economic developments in the ICT area. This year’s event is 
the 10th summer school on the Political Economy of ICT with previous 
summer schools featuring topics concerning Internet, media, mobile 
communications, social networks, etc.

AIM OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL

The aim of the course is to refine the level of knowledge of the 
participating Ph.D. students on the economic and political structures 
and mechanisms affecting technology development in the information and 
communication technology (ICT) area. It also considers the impact of 
implementation and application of ICTs on the economy and broader social 
developments. It is a course in the political economy of technology 
development with a disciplinary point of departure in economics and 
social science. This theme is explored at a company (micro), sectoral 
(meso) and/or societal (macro) level. This will depend on the specific 
topics chosen in the course. The course targets Ph.D. students with a 
technology background combined with an economics and/or social science 
approach and students with an economics and /or social science 
background focusing on technology development.

SPECIFIC TOPIC OF 2016

The topic of 2016 is ICT for Development (ICT4D). Focus will be on how 
applications of ICT can contribute to social, economic and political 
developments in general and especially in economically poorer countries 
and regions and on how the social, economic and political environment 
environments condition technology developments in the ICT area. Much 
research has emphasized the positive prospects of ICT4D, but with ICTs 
and especially mobile communications already having a relatively wide 
penetration in many developing areas it is also time to look at the 
actual impacts. The summer school will have focus on discussions on 
prospects, conditions and impacts relating to ICT developments in terms 
of broader social as well as economic and market developments. This 
includes micro cases and developments at a larger scale, and it includes 
applications and content as well as infrastructure aspects.

LectureRs

·*William H. Melody* 
<http://vbn.aau.dk/da/persons/william-h-melody(ef3c70c9-b7b7-43bc-89a1-3331fcceff1d).html>, 
Professor, CMI, Aalborg University

·*Laurent Gille* 
<http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/recherche/les-enseignants-chercheurs-de-telecom-paristech/gille.html>, 
Professor, Télécom ParisTech

·*Knud Erik Skouby* <http://personprofil.aau.dk/112684>, Professor, CMI

·*Anders Henten* <http://personprofil.aau.dk/117491>, Professor, CMI

·*Reza Tadayoni* <http://personprofil.aau.dk/117533>, Associate 
Professor, CMI

For more information, please contact:

Reza Tadayoni, (reza /at/ cmi.aau.dk) <mailto:(reza /at/ cmi.aau.dk)>

Anders Henten, *(henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk) <mailto:(henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)>*

Best regards

Anders Henten

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