Pierre de Vries

Pierre de Vries researches and advises clients on the intersection of information technology and government policy. His current projects include regulatory paradigms for the internet/web, alternative conceptual models for wireless policy, spectrum allocation in the TV white spaces, and the impact of intangibility on decision-making in the digital world.

Curriculum Vitae, Short bio

Contact:

  • pierredv at hotmail dotcom
  • http://is.gd/UVC (obscured to prevent spam; on clicking the link, a mailto: for the email address will open in your email client)

Recent documents

"De-situating spectrum: Rethinking radio policy using non-spatial metaphors" (17 pages, abstract and download at SSRN) - an attempt to show that there are better alternatives to the spectrum concept for radio regulation. Accepted for DySPAN '08.

"Internet Governance as Forestry: Deriving Policy Principles from Managed Complex Adaptive Systems" (56 pages, abstract and download at SSRN); for a short introduction, see the Publius essay  for the Berkman Center. Accepted for TPRC '08.

Internet Forestry: A Principles Approach to Governance, an essay for the Berkman Center's Publius Project (May 2008)

Wayne Stark and Pierre de Vries, "Detection of White Spaces in a Cognitive Radio Architecture,"
Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, 2008. CrownCom 2008. 3rd International Conference on, pp 1-6, 15-17 May 2008. Abstract on IEEE Xplore.

Gary Tonge and Pierre de Vries, "The Role of Licence-Exemption in Spectrum Reform," COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES, no. 67, 3rd quarter 2007, p. 85 (abstract and download at SSRN)

A May 2007 lecture on "Hard Intangibles" at the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC (abstract) has now been posted in a choice of formats. Audio: MP3. Video: QuickTime or Windows Media.

"Imagining Radio: Mental Models of Wireless Communication" (abstract and download at SSRN) - an exploration of the mental models used in spectrum policy. Presented at Dyspan 2007, published in the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2007.

SSRN: Author Page (papers archive)

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