MONTREAL – The International Institute of Communications (IICOM) has chosen ‘Trends in global communications: wrestling with unpredictability’ as the theme of its 2009 annual conference.
Held October 26 – 27, 2009 at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montreal, the 40th anniversary conference will facilitate the sharing and exchange of empirical data, specialist knowledge and accumulated insights, and help to identify future trends.
Key speakers, who include Heritage Minister James Moore and CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein, will address issues such as:
– The relative weight of technology and user choice in shaping content-creation and distribution, and the communications sector at large;
– The imprint the global financial and economic crisis has had on communications companies, on consumption in services and on capital investment in infrastructure;
– The policy dilemmas – political and financial – which high-speed broadband poses for policy-makers and regulators;
– The price society may need to pay to sustain ‘high quality’ programming and information in an increasingly fragmented media world; and
– The challenge to regulators to break new ground in devising approaches and mechanisms which can cope with industry players increasingly operating on new platforms and across national borders.
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