The IIC Telecommunications and Media Forum (TMF) programme serves to enhance the telecommunications and media community’s knowledge and understanding of emerging policy and technologies on a fast-track basis. It is the policymaking world’s only continuous programme of its kind.
Three IIC TMF meetings are held every year. A typical cycle will include one in Brussels (in the Spring) and in Washington, DC (in late autumn) together with one at mid-year in a rotating location. Past locations have included Qatar, Rome, Bahrain, Madrid, and Hong Kong. In June 2012 the mid-year meeting will be held in Berlin.
IIC TMF meetings take a broad-brush approach to emerging market policy and regulatory topics with emphasis on issues in the region in which they are being held. Presentations by experts and keynote speakers who are recognised authorities in the community are followed by extensive discussion with all participants.
A TMF usually explores four key themes. Recent ones have included: structural separation, cloud computing, the European Digital Single Market, ‘connected TV’ spectrum demand, universal service funds, national broadband plans, broadband economics, privacy online, the impact of radio frequency identification, the ‘internet of things’, consumer protection, the impact of multi-screen TV, facilitating a dynamic market for creative content, the future of competition policy, and policy implications of the rise of social networks.
The IIC TMF meetings series is sponsored by TMF members of the IIC and hosted by a representative from the policymaking or service provider communities. Attendance is by invitation only. The proceedings of the event are made available to participants subject to speaker permissions. Discussions are conducted under the Chatham House Rule* of non-attribution in order to ensure confidentiality. As an additional benefit, TMF members receive copies of the presentation transcripts after the events.
For more information please contact Joanne Grimshaw on j.grimshaw(at)iicom.org or Andrea Millwood Hargrave on a.millwood-hargrave(at)iicom.org
*The Chatham House Rule: “When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”