Given that the concepts of innovative technologies are often developed in the academic world, ITU has been increasingly looking to attract academics from the world’s universities and R&D institutions, fostering their involvement in the ITU standardization work.
By viewing technologies through a Kaleidoscope, these forward-looking academic conferences, organized by ITU-T and technically co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc, became an essential forum for researchers, professors, students and ICT experts from all over the world.
Kaleidoscope provides a venue to facilitate networking and discuss ways forward to enrich the whole ITU work, both in terms of technical proposals for current work items and in steps to increase participation of academia and research organizations in all the Union’s activities.
Kaleidoscope calls for original, academic papers exploring technological innovation and digital transformation's implications for policy, regulation, legal and ethical frameworks, the economy, and society.
The paper selection follows a rigorous double-blind, peer-revision process that involves more than 150 subject matter expert reviewers. The Steering and Technical Programme Committees will award the authors of the three best papers, which often translates into the opportunity to present significant work to ITU for future collaboration. In addition, young authors of up to 30 years of age presenting accepted papers will receive Young Author Recognition certificates.
Accepted papers are published in the Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore, with noteworthy extended versions considered for publication in the ITU Journal.
