About eComm

eComm is the venue for those interested in the radical transformation of the trillion dollar telecommunications industry. It has already started down the path that the homebrew computer took three decades ago. Just as democratized computation gave birth to the computer industry, eComm is tracking, highlighting and promoting the people and technologies driving this new wave of democratization.

The story of the decentralization of communications innovation has past the second chapter which was VoIP. It is now regarded as a building block only. As a standalone service it is both uninspiring and unlikely to be highly profitable.

The excitement and profits will be derived from combining voice with other vectors we’re tracking such as:

Open source hardware and software; open handsets in particular
Social networking technologies and platforms
New radio spectrum allocation and technologies including open spectrum
New content distribution networks and business models
Intra-relationship syndication and synchronization of content and PIMS information
Collaboration and peer-to-peer (P2P) modes of economic production
Device mediated discovery of relevant others and the prompting of social interaction
Integration with business processes
Computation of social contexts
Positioning and location
Digital social trust, reputation and online identity

It makes sense to rethink the basics with so many vectors to track and creatively combine. Which is why eComm also invites sociologists and anthropologists to help understand why people are communicating and what they are trying to achieve by doing so.

UPDATE: Get a flavor of the conference from pre-conference interviews: