Business Meeting Agenda Madrid 2019

The IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology Section will run its business meeting at IAMCR 2019 in Madrid. 

When: Tuesday, July 9th, at 2pm
Where: Room Farmacia 222

Agenda

- Overview of 2019 conference

• Submissions / acceptance rates/comparison with previous conferences
• Evaluation criteria and feedback  
• Problems encountered and responses

- Best paper awards 2019 and 2020

• Info on 2018 winners -  https://iamcr.org/s-wg/cpt-best-papers-2018 
• Process for selecting and awarding
• CPT and IPR joint award 

- Report of the activities in 2018-2019

• Special issue with the Internet Policy Review online (Vol 8(1), open access journal, received funding from S&WG fund of IAMCR, 2018.
• Editorial - Practicing rights and values in internet policy around the world - and 5 papers - see  https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/communication-and-internet-policy-critical-rights-based-history-and-future 
  
• Co-sponsored/co-promoted confs

- Elections 

• To elect a new joint chair and two new vice-chairs
• See candidate statements at https://iamcr.org/s-wg/cpt-elections2019 

- IAMCR China conference

• expectations, worries, 
• themes for CFP

- Other plans and ideas for 2019-2020 

Publication plans

• Events
• Newsletter and communication with members 
• Bilingualism of sessions 
• Video presentations
• other?

- Open discussion, feedback and ideas