The rapid diffusion of Internet networks fosters the development of new online services in many different sectors/domains: communication, media, education, cultural industries, health, trading, public services, game industries… The focus is therefore shifted from access to emerging issues of innovative services and diffusion of usages.

The Conference is aiming to analyse the conditions enabling the emergence and the development of these new services within organizations and markets.

Organisers

Alain Rallet, Fabrice Rochelandet and Adel Ben Youssef, ADIS, Université Paris-Sud 11

Objective

The Conference will focus on:

• The diverse networks that will be able to provide these online services (optic fibre, wireline, wireless, cable, satellite…) and on competition/complementarities between these networks.
• The elaboration of online contents and services: changes of organizational and business models, supply side, content protection issues, and willingness to accept new services.
• New usages patterns: reducing uncertainty and complexity, learning prerequisites and interactions between producers and users.

Topics

Relevant research might stem from the following areas:

1. Networks:
   Complementary and competitive networks; Stakeholders strategic planning, regulating issues; Infrastructures and networks financing and development; Networks interoperability; Modularity; Networks security; Coverage areas, universal service and digital divide…
2. Contents:
   Online services and organizational change (administration, enterprises, inter-firms relations); Technological convergence and multimedia services; New co-productive models (partnership and consumer bodies…); Intermediate services; Online services and business models; Intellectual Property Rights, DRM…
3. Usages:
   Usages analysis and evaluation; Users’ practices, digital divide, learning practices; Social interactions and communities; Mobility: mobile tools and equipments, mobile uses, ICTs pervasiveness; Privacy, tracking techniques, data protection...

Deadlines

Abstract submission: September 30, 2007
Papers/notes acceptance: October 7, 2007
Submission of final paper: November 15, 2007

Submissions

• Please send extended abstracts (max. 1000 words): didier.lebert@u-psud.fr

For any further information

Didier Lebert
(Online Services Conference)
Faculté Jean Monnet
54, boulevard Desgranges
F-92331 Sceaux Cedex

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