It serves researchers, policymakers, and members of the private sector and civil society, from students to well-established practitioners.
[3] TPRC welcomes legal, economic, social, and technical research affecting every aspect of national and international policy on communications, information, and the Internet, including but not limited to: voice, video, and data communications using wireline and wireless networks; traditional mass media including radio and television broadcasting, cable- and satellite-delivered communication; the growth and evolution of the Internet ecosystem; technological convergence and its implications for statutes, regulations, and treaties; intellectual property; electronic commerce; privacy and cybersecurity; and the role of communications, information, and the Internet in economic development.
[4] TPRC papers since 1997 have been archived at Social Science Research Network (SSRN), and can be found by searching there.
Past board chairs include[5] Current and former chairs of the Program Committee[5] TPRC was founded in 1972 by a group of regulators, governmental researchers and representatives of diverse academic communities who met at the first Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (subsequently renamed TPRC) organized by the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House.
[6] As communications policy has grown in importance to where the very term “telecommunications” is inadequate, the conference has evolved and expanded.