CFP: IEEE/GIIS2007: 2-6/juil: Marrakech

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IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2007)
2-6 July 2007 / Kenzi Farah Hotel, Marrakech, Morocco
http://www.giis2007.org/

Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, GIIS 2007 brings
together the
interrelated technical, policy,
and social issues implicit in the development of national and
international
information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying
and promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues
and to
stimulate interdisciplinary symposium sessions
and workshops to discuss, built and further the use of local, regional
and
global information infrastructures, with a particular
focus on underserved areas.

With a program featuring keynote talks, workshops, a panel, technical
and
poster sessions,
GIIS 2007 will provide up-to-date approaches, technical solutions,
policy and
social implications for
future communications and information infrastructures.

Technical Program Highlights:
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The technical program features a number of technical sessions,
tutorials,
workshops, posters, keynotes and panel discussions including:

Keynotes:

* Technology evolution and market impact for a sustainable Global
Information
Infrastructure
Dr. Roberto Sarraco, CTO, Telecom Italia

* Overcoming the Digital Divide: Rethinking Innovation and Going
Beyond
Connectivity.
Dr. Rahul Tongia, Senior Systems Scientist (Faculty Member) at
Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU), USA,
Senior Fellow at the Center for Study of Science, Technology, and
Policy
(CSTEP), Bangalore, India.

Panel:

*Challenges in Providing Universal Access to the Global Telecom
Network
Mehmet Ulema, Professor, Manhattan College, New York, USA
(co-organizer)
Robert Walp, Chairman Emeritus, General Communication, Inc., Alaska,
USA
(co-organizer and chair)
Vic Hayes, Senior Research Fellow, Economics of Infrastructures, TU
Delft, NL
Heather E. Hudson, Professor, University of San Francisco, USA
Rahul Tongia , Senior Fellow at the Center for Study of Science,
Technology,
and Policy, Bangalore , India
Doug Zuckerman, President-Elect, IEEE Communications Society , New
York , USA
Tutorials:
* Multicast MPLS: Progresses and Challenges
Jean-Louis Le Roux, Senior Architect in MPLS and GMPLS networks,
Orange R&D,
France
*Autonomic Networking - Theory and Practice
John Strassner, Fellow and Director of Autonomic Computing at Motorola
Research
Labs, Motorola, USA
Workshops:
*Workshop on Seamless Service Mobility (SSMO)
organized by Alcatel-Lucent R&D
* Workshop on ITS for Ubiquitous Roads (UBIROADS)
organized by Orange R&D
*Workshop on Risks and Security in Internet and Systems (CRiSIS)
The technical program also features multiple technical sessions of
full and
short paper presentations as well as poster presentations.
For more details on the technical program, please visit:
http://www.giis2007.org/

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Registration for the IEEE GIIS 2007 technical and social programs and
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hotelinformation are available through the conference
Web site at: http://www.giis2007.org/

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