An ITU-T Kaleidoscope Event, Geneva, 12-13 May 2008

Innovations in Next Generation Networks is the first in a series of academic conferences that aims at increasing the dialogue between academia and experts working on the standardization of information and communications technologies (ICT).

By viewing technologies through a Kaleidoscope, these forward looking academic conferences will also seek to identify new topics for standardization.

Innovations in NGN will bring together visionary ideas on the future of NGN. It will highlight technologies, services and applications five years and beyond that will capitalize on the NGN infrastructure and lead to the ubiquitous network society in which information can be accessed anywhere and anytime by anyone and anything. The event will also cover multidisciplinary aspects related to the deployment of NGN, including analysis of regulatory and societal challenges.

Innovations in NGN is to inspire contributions towards a kaleidoscopic view of communication habits for the future. We know what NGN is in terms of the underlying technology, but we don’t know what services will emerge, how NGN will affect the marketplace for ICT, and how society will be affected. To this end ITU is issuing a call for papers, a number of topics of interest are suggested in it. A prize fund totaling $10,000 has been kindly donated by Cisco to be awarded to the three best papers.

For more informations visit: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/uni/kaleidoscope/