Highlights
Institutional and Professional Recognition
CEEM has received Professional Recognition from the following Institutions:
- Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, Columbia University
- Center for Research on Telecommunications Policy, University of California, Berkley
- The MIT Center for Digital Business, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Gary Madden has received Professional Recognition from the following Organizations:
- Board of Directors, International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
- Member, Scientific Council, Communications & Strategies Journal
- Co-editor, Special Issue, Telecommunications Policy
- Editorial Board, Journal of Media Economics
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Management and Network Economics
- Chair, Publications Committee, International Telecommunications Society
- Referee: Applied Economics, Australian Economic Papers, Contemporary Economic Policy, Defence and Peace Economics, Economic Record, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Information Economics and Policy, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Media Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Industrial Organization, Telecommunications Policy
- Reviews, Book Proposals, Edward Elgar Publishers and MIT Press
- Special Consultant, NERA Economic Consultants
Institutional links
In addition to the ITS, CEEM enhanced its links with Columbia University (The Columbia Institute for Tele-information), New York University, Lancaster University and MIT with visits, joint research and reciprocal seminar presentations.
Ongoing collaboration via ITS conference organization and editorial involvement with a number of journals reinforces links with Boston University, Columbia University, Federal Communications Commission, HAAS School of Business, Laboratorio Di Economia Dell'innovazione, MIT, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley, University of Colorado, University of Edinburgh, University of Pennsylvania, University of British Columbia and Western Washington University.
Significantly, CEEM has been able to initiate links with a number of economic consulting organizations including Analysis Group, NERA and TNS Telecoms. Founded in 1981, Analysis Group is a firm providing economic, financial, and business strategy consulting to law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Their clients include corporations, governments, law firms, regulatory agencies, trade associations and international agencies. Since 1981 the staff has grown to over 400 professionals who collaborate with a network of experts at leading universities. TNS Telecoms is the world's largest telecom market information company.
Activities
2007 saw CEEM and its Director contribute to many academic events. Highlights were:
- A joint presentation with Andy Banerjee (Analysis Group) in Geneva to the International Telecommunication Union Workshop on the Future of Voice.
- Leader of the dissenting side team in The Great Debate: Libraries – Trash or Treasure: Are Libraries Still Important in our Technological Age? A debate presented by the State Library of Western Australia.
- Presentation of seminars at the University of South Africa during an invited visit to UNISA in Pretoria.
International Telecommunications Society Conference
The International Telecommunications Society Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference was held at the Curtin University of Technology, Bentley campus, Perth on 28-30 August 2005.
ITS Regional Conference 2005 Report
The International Telecommunications Society Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference was held at Curtin University of Technology, Bentley campus, Perth on 26-28 August 2007.
ITS Regional Conference 2007 Report
Research students
- W Szewczyk, PhD thesis title: 'International ICT Spillovers in the APEC Region within the GTAP Framework', Macquarie University.
- Z Lesame, PhD thesis title: 'Telecommunications and Economic Development in the Republic of South Africa', University of South Africa.