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The Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI), of the Copenhagen Institute of Technology (CIT), Aalborg University, Denmark, will host its First International Conference on Converging Mobile Media on 28 November 2008. The conference is organized in cooperation with the Advanced technology network on Mobile Systems, CTiF Copenhagen, and CMI’s CAMMP Project.

William Melody, founder of LIRNE.NET, will deliver the closing comments for the conference (see the full programme in the rest of this entry).

Click here for the conference website.

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[28 November 2008] The Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI), of the Copenhagen Institute of Technology (CIT), Aalborg University, Denmark, will host its First International Conference on Converging Mobile Media on 28 November 2008. The conference is organized in cooperation with the Advanced technology network on Mobile Systems, CTiF Copenhagen, and CMI’s CAMMP Project.

William Melody, founder of LIRNE.NET, will deliver the closing comments for the conference (see the full programme in the rest of this entry).

Click here for the conference website.

Click here for conference registration

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William Melody and Amy Mahan will guest edit a special issue of info - the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media on Network Development: Wireless Applications for the Next Billion New Users. This special issue focused on wireless applications for the next billion users will examine priority issues relating to the extension of ICT infrastructure to the world’s unconnected poor, with particular reference to the design of innovative strategies for network development. The guest editors welcome the submission of draft material or work in progress based on current or recently completed research for possible publication in this special issue.

Deadline for submission: Monday, 4 August 2008.

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The Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), concerned about the future of their national infrastructures, have prepared a report, Infrastructures: Time to Invest, that is likely to be of interest beyond the Netherlands. “The WRR is concerned about the quality of Dutch infrastructures [sewers, energy, telecom, water, etc.] in the long term. The attention devoted by administrators and market players to short-term effects geared towards efficiency, consumer interest and cost, has a detrimental effect on investment in the public interest in the long term.”

Download the report’s table of contents and executive summary here.

A collection of papers (including Professor Bill Melody’s “Private Equity Funds and Public Utilities: Where Incentive Structures Collide”), were prepared for this report and published under New Perspectives on Investment in Infrastructures (v19 jun 08) by Amsterdam University Press. These are also available for download. Click here for the information page or here to download the collection in .pdf.

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Professor W.H. Melody’s recent keynote speech at the Broadband Cities conference (November 14-15, Amsterdam and Almere, Netherlands) as well as other presentations from the conference, can now be viewed online.

Click here to go to the collection of conference presentations.

Click here for more Private Equity Funds work by Melody.

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