The Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC) is organising the ICA 2010 pre-conference workshop, “Innovations in Mobile Use”.

The Mobiles pre-conference seeks to examine innovations in a variety of societal contexts highlighting different phenomena of cell phone uses. The workshop will aim to foster discussions around how developments in emerging markets reflect the trends in mature markets, and assess potential for the cross-pollination of information and communications technologies for development and/or empowerment.

You are invited to submit a 500-word extensive abstract focusing on the social scientific understanding of mobile communication, including the following themes:

With the support of the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, a conference is being organized by the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University on the topic of how mobile communication influences social policy.

Broad in its conception, the conference aims to produce new insights into the topic. Subjects to be addressed will range from mobiles and social programs (initiation through evaluation) to how mobile technology is used in political campaigns and to influence the social policy environment.

There will be both an open call for papers and invited talks. Presenters are being asked to combine empirical data (either qualitative or quantitative) with important theoretical issues to address the mobile communication-social policy nexus.

Call for papers and/or extended abstracts timeline:

In 2010, the GSMA Mobile World Congress will celebrate the continued innovation of the mobile industry and showcase the future of wireless communications across the world.

The GSMA’s Mobile World Congress is unsurpassed in its ability to attract the highest level of speaker and delegate. Industry leaders presenting at the 2009 event included:

• Ralph de la Vega, President and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets
• Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nokia Corporation
• César Alierta, Executive Chairman, Telefónica
• Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive, Vodafone Group

The Mobile World Congress 2010 will provide a platform for sharing new perspectives and an opportunity to present your insights to an audience of 50,000 senior mobile industry executives. Topics addressed at next year’s event will include:

Solicits submissions for Vol. 2

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA).   Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following:

The EuroCPR 2009 Conference welcomes papers that address the policy challenges of competitiveness, energy efficiency and the interaction between competitiveness and energy efficiency in the mobile communications sector.

The conference will take place on the 30th and 31st of March 2009 in Seville, at the Italian Pavilion in the Isla de la Cartuja.

The conference is hosted by the Regional Ministry for Innovation, Science and Enterprise of Andalusia, in collaboration with the Institute for Prospective Studies (IPTS), one of the seven scientific institutes of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Abstracts should be no longer than 1000 words. The structure and content of the abstracts should include the research question, main results, policy relevance, theory and methodology.