ComplexITy

Inaugural workshop

"Complexity and ICT"

Georgetown University, December 17, 2004

CCT Conference Room, 311 Car Barn

3520 Prospect Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. 20057

Background materials

• Workshop agenda (including directions)

• A few background papers related to ICT and complexity (alpha order)

   

  • Johannes M. Bauer, "Harnessing the Swarm: Communications Policy in an Era of Ubiquitous Networks and Disruptive Technologies", Communications and Strategies, 2004, 54, 2^nd quarter, 19-43

  • Jim Chen, "Webs of Life: Biodiversity Preservation as a Species of Information Policy", 89 Iowa Law Review, 2004

  • Barbara A. Cherry, "The Telecommunications Economy and Regulation As Coevolving Complex Adaptive Systems: Implications for Federalism", paper presented at the 32nd Research Conference on Communications, Internet and information Policy, Arlington, VA, October 2, 2004

  • Barbara A. Cherry and Johannes M. Bauer, "Adaptive Regulation: Contours of Policy for the Internet Economy," paper presented at the 15^th Biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Berlin, Germany, September 4-7, 2004

  • D. Linda Garcia and Ellen Surles, "Communications Policy: An Organizational Field Perspective", research project in progress, preliminary documents at http://cct.georgetown.edu/docs/OFChap1.pdf and http://cct.georgetown.edu/docs/OFApp1.pdf

  • Patricia H. Longstaff, "The Puzzle of Competition in the Communications Sector: Can Complex Systems be Regulated or Managed?", Center for Information Policy Research, Program in Information resources Policy, Working Harvard University

  • Patricia H. Longstaff, "Security, Resilience, and Communication in Unpredictable Environments such as Terrorism, Natural Disasters and Complex Technology", unpublished manuscript, Syracuse University, 2004

• Participant information

Johannes M. Bauer, Michigan State University

Jim Chen, University of Minnesota

Barbara A. Cherry, Federal Communications Commission

Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern University

D. Linda Garcia, Georgetown University

Patricia H. Longstaff, Syracuse University

Ellen B. Surles, Georgetown University

Nicholas S. Vonortas, George Washington University

Caroline Wagner, George Washington University

Kathleen Wallman, Georgetown University

 

 

Last modified December 16, 2004, Johannes M. Bauer