[Air-L] Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) Paper Prizes 2018

[Jenifer Sunrise Winter]

Dear AoIR list members,

The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) will host its 40th Anniversary
conference on January 21–24, 2018 in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will
offer two awards for excellence in research: the *Meheroo Jussawalla
Research Paper Award* for the the best conference paper of PTC '18,
and the *Yale
M. Braunstein Award* for the best student paper.  For submission details
and additional information please go to PTC.ORG
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and
the CFP submission site
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.

The *Yale M. Braunstein Award* for best student paper
Submission Deadline: Sept. 1, 2017

The *Meheroo Jussawalla Research Paper Award* for best conference paper
Proposal Deadline: July 26, 2017
Paper Deadline: Sept. 29, 2017

The winner of each prize will receive:

·  US$1,000 cash award

·  Conference registration waiver

·  Speaking opportunity to present winning paper at PTC'18

·  Stipend of up to US$1,500 for travel and accommodation (prize winner
arranges own accommodation)

·  Certificate presented at the PTC'18 Awards Ceremony

Papers for PTC'18 are welcome on a range of telecom and information and
communications technologies topics including: Mobile/Wireless, Satellite,
Subsea Cables, Network Architectures and Technologies, New Business Models,
Cloud, Colo and Data Centers, Emerging Markets, ICT4D, Security, Privacy
and Data Protection, Policy and Regulation.  Research topics may be
interdisciplinary or grounded in a specific discipline (economics,
political science, business, communications, public policy) and may reflect
regional and/or cross-regional perspectives.

Aloha,

Jenifer

Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, School of Communications
Co-Director, Pacific ICTD Collaborative
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2550 Campus Road, Crawford Hall 325
Honolulu, HI 96822