Pacific Telecommunications Council

CONTENTS:
2008 PTC Mid-Year Seminar
PTC'09
Stats @ PTC´08
Program Committee for PTC´09
Eye on Trends
PTC´09 Research Paper Prizes
Board of Governors Approves Two Bylaw Amendments
ICF Immersion Lab 2008
Featured Industry Publications and Resources
Industry Events

     
 
 

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2008 PTC Mid-Year Seminar
19 June 2008
Swissotel The Stamford

Singapore

In cooperation with CommunicAsia 2008


 

PTC’09
Collaborating for Change:
Strategies, Opportunities & Partnerships

Jan 18-21, 2009
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
 
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PTC Members´ Bulletin

March 2008

2008 PTC Mid-Year Seminar

PTC is pleased to announce the 2008 Mid-Year Seminar presented in cooperation with CommunicAsia 2008. The one-day event will take place at the Swissotel The Stamford in the heart of Singapore at the Raffles City Convention Centre on Thursday, 19 June, ...more

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PTC'09
Collaborating for Change:
Strategies, Opportunities & Partnerships

The program for PTC’09 (18-21 January 2009) will focus on the vital role of collaboration in bringing new communications services to market. It will simultaneously highlight the impact that collaborative efforts have on the industry, while featuring the importance of collaboration as the means by which ever more complex systems and services are developed and distributed including user-driven applications that are accelerating demand in the global marketplace...more

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Stats @ PTC´08

The final registration count at PTC'08 was 1166, a 20% increase over last year!

See all the statistics in the PTC'08 Wrap-up Flyer.

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Program Committee for PTC´09

The PTC'09 program committee is already at work with planning for our 31st annual conference 18-21 January 2009. The committee is co-chaired by Stephan Beckert and Richard Taylor...more

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Eye on Trends

The Ethics Contagion: Multiple Issues and their Off-Spring

by: Tom Cooper, member PTC Advisory Council; Co-publisher, Media Ethics Magazine

Tom Cooper

When I first visited PTC in 1993, only a few Pacific telecommunication ethics issues were being showcased. That year, articles about privacy in Japan, cultural erosion in the Marshall Islands and Fiji, and health concerns about emissions from telecom facilities in the U.S. were published.

Fifteen years later, in “the age of Enron”, it is not surprising that many presentations, even our annual conference plenary sessions and keynote sessions, have increasingly mentioned…more

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PTC´09 Research Paper Prizes

Papers must be in line with the theme of PTC'09: Collaborating for Change: Strategies, Opportunities, and Partnerships...more

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Board of Governors Approves Two Bylaw Amendments

Two additional amendments are under consideration.

During its February 2008 conference call meeting, the Board of Governors approved two amendments to the PTC Bylaws as relates to changing the title of the Executive Director (ED) to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and filling casual vacancies on the Board…more

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ICF Immersion Lab 2008

The Intelligent Communities Forum (ICF) announces the ICF Immersion Lab 2008, 12-22 May , with visits to five of the world’s top Intelligent Communities. A discount is available for PTC members.

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Featured Industry Publications and Resources

A number of exclusive member discounts are available...more

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Industry Events

A calendar of conference events and links...more

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The PTC Members Bulletin is published in 10 monthly issues each year. The Bulletin is distributed electronically to members in the first half of February, March, April, May, June, August, September, October, November and December. The next issue will be distributed to members in early April 2008.

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