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March 23, 2005
Peripheral Visionaries' Summit - May 4th in Washington, D.C.
The Peripheral Visionaries' IP-Based Communications Policy Summit: Back to the Future of Communications
So what's a Peripheral Visionary? Someone who can see into the future -- but only way off to the side. Every industry body with a stake in VoIP has been vigorously presenting its unique perspective to legislators, regulators, judges, Wall Street, enterprises and consumers. We are all convinced of the righteousness of our respective positions, and, admittedly there is merit on each side, which is why the issue has become so intractable. Seldom have all interested parties had the moment to sit down in a room together to hammer out their differences and triangulate, quadrandragulate, or quintangulate their views. On May 4 in Washington, D.C. the leading trade associations and advocates on all sides of the IP-based communications debates will come together for a unified Policy Summit.
Jonathan Askin will be the host of the summit.
IP-technology twists the logic of everything we've come to think about communications, its regulation and its possibilities. The Peripheral Visionaries' Summit is designed to get beyond the rhetoric, to try to see the issues from contrary points of view, to learn from our respective histories, and to look ahead and figure out how we usher in the best possible collective future.
The Summit participants will include leading thinkers from inside and outside the Beltway, including technologists, entrepreneurs, advocates, policy makers and policy wonks. We suspect there is much that legislators, regulators, lobbyists, and policy wonks might learn from the technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators and futurists experimenting with the limits of their imaginations and the power of IP. We also suspect that the technologists have a lot to learn from the policy makers and thinkers formulating the rules that will govern the future of communications and drive technological innovation.
The Summit will also gather insight from those developing other, here-to-fore unimagined, applications taking advantage of IP technology, including those experimenting with video and broadcast applications. Perhaps these players might have something to learn from the seminal experiences of those embroiled in the current debates surrounding VoIP. And, perhaps, those developing the rules to reconcile VoIP with traditional communications policy might have something to learn from the perspectives offered by other IP innovators and entrepreneurs.
The Peripheral Visionaries' Policy Summit will bring to the table all sides with a stake in IP-based communications to find our common ground and to determine where we go from here so that the future of communications can be what it should be - a win-win for all.
Details are available at: http://pulver.com/policy.
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Posted by jeff on March 23, 2005 07:29 AM | Permalink
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