Core Programmed during GK3 Event on the Future @ KLCC (11-13 DEC 2007)

1. THIRD GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE
CORE PROGRAMME INFORMATION
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2. Core Programme Schedule
GK3, Third Global Knowledge Conference Core Programme
GKP Event on The Future, GK3 is a unique gathering of 2,000 global visionaries, innovators, practitioners and
policy makers, all geared to sharing knowledge and building partnerships on a platform creating by and for
stakeholders from every sector – private companies, governments, international institutions and civil society groups.
The GK3 theme, “Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies” is a dynamic focus on the interplay,
interface and interweaving of issues related to Knowledge for Development (K4D) and Information and
Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) within the context of our evolving societies, economies and
technologies worldwide.
Delivered in a framework of expert panels and workshops, GK3 is designed to ensure maximum action, interaction
and reaction among the attending leaders, change agents, and solution provides across sectors to exchange and
debate concrete possible realities and solutions of the future from our learning today.
GK3 will take place at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 11 to 13 December 2007.
Please note that as a matter of principle, all GK3 sessions will address the convergence of emerging people, markets
and technologies. However, each session carries a greater emphasis on one particular dimension of emerging
people, emerging markets or emerging technologies as indicated in the colour-coded table below. There are also
special cross-cutting sessions which address other priorities of GK3. The Conference will be conducted entirely in
English only.
All sessions are 90 minutes in duration. Details on room allocation will be made by the Organisers at a later stage.
The Organisers reserve the exclusive right to change this programme without prior notice and to alter session titles
and day/time allocations to best meet the goals of GK3.
(tbc) denotes quot;to be confirmedquot;
For a real-time update on the GK3 Programme, please visit http://www.GKPEventsOnTheFuture.org/GK3programme.
Main tracks within the GK3 Core Programme
EP Emerging People EM Emerging Markets ET Emerging SS Special Cross-
Sessions Sessions Technologies Sessions Cutting Sessions
Further GK3 Highlights
Exhibition Highlights
Young Social IdeaFactory Project: “A
Entrepreneurs’ Forum World of Entrepreneurs:
20 ideas to make it
happen by 2020”
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3. GK3 Core Programme
Tuesday 11 Dec
GK3 Programme
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
GK3 Exhibition Hub open 08:00 to 19:00
Time Activity / Session
08:00 Arrival & Registration of Participants & Guests
GK3 CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY
09:00
Welcome Address
09:15 to 09:25
Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Executive Director, Global Knowledge Partnership and Chair of the GK3 Working Committee
Opening Address
09:25 to 09:40
Walter Fust, Chair of the Executive Committee, Global Knowledge Partnership and Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Opening Keynote Addresses
09:40 to 10:30
The Hon. Dato’ Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister, Malaysia
H.E. Ban Ki-Moon (tbc), Secretary-General of the United Nations
Refreshments & Networking
10:30 to 11:00
11:00 to 12:30 EMP: Emerging Markets Plenary
Emerging Markets: Is There a Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?
Panelists:
Orlando Ayala, Senior Vice President, Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft Corporation
John E. Davies, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group / General Manager, World Ahead, Intel Corporation
Valerie Faudon (tbc), Vice President, Programs Alcatel Corporate Marketing Office, Paris
Priya Haji (tbc), Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, World of Goods Inc.
Dirk Meyer (tbc), President and Chief Operating Officer, AMD
Moderator:
Veronica Pedrosa (tbc), Presenter (News Anchor/Journalist), Al Jazeera International (Malaysia)
IdeaFactory
11:00 to 12:30
Creative Team (Part 1) (By invitation only)
Parallel Activity
Lunch & Networking
12:30 to 14:00
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4. GK3 Core Programme
Tuesday 11 Dec
Time Activity / Session
Parallel Sessions
14:00 to 15:30
IdeaFactory
ET1: ICT for a Multilingual EM1: Electronic Banking EM2: Connecting The
SS1: Special Cross-Cutting
Knowledge Society with the Poor: Emerging Diaspora: Migration As An
Session on Financing Creative Team (Part 2) (By
Technologies for Financial Financing Change in ICT4D: Opportunity (tbc) invitation only)
Inclusion Innovative & Emerging
Social Investors and Donors
EP1: India as a Trend Setter EP2: Engendering the EM3: Incubating ET2: Collaborative Tools and
for Successful Multi- Knowledge Society: Entrepreneurship: Techniques for
Stakeholder Partnerships Measuring Women's Developing World Tech Strengthening Networks
Participation Incubation Centres (Part 1) (Part 1)
(tbc)
Refreshments & Networking
15:30 to 16:00
Parallel Sessions
16:00 to 17:30
EP3: Making Community- EM3: Incubating ET3: Open Access: Sharing Young Social Entrepreneurs’
SS2: Special Cross-Cutting
Driven Networks a Reality Entrepreneurship: Research, Expanding Forum
Session on Knowledge
Developing World Tech Resources
Knowledge Management for What You Always Wanted To
Incubation Centres (Part 2) Development – Innovations Know From Funding
(tbc) Lessons & Perspectives (tbc) Institutions …
ET4: Making Communities EP4: Creating Opportunity: EM4: Rural Societies, ET2: Collaborative Tools and
Disaster Resilient Basic IT Skills as a Technologies and Techniques for
Springboard to Jobs Languages in Africa (tbc) Strengthening Networks
(Part 2)
Close of Day 1
17:30
Idea Factory: IdeaCity with participants of Creative Team
18:00 to 19:00
GK3 GALA DINNER
19:30 to 22:00
Stockholm Challenge – GKP Awards 2007
African Information Society Initiative (AISI) – GKP Media Awards 2007
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5. GK3 Core Programme
Wednesday 12 Dec
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
GK3 Exhibition Hub & IdeaFactory – Creative City Exhibition open 08:00 to 19:00
Time Activity / Session
Commencement of Day 2
08:45 to 09:00
Introduction to the Emerging People Plenary
M.S. Swaminathan, Founder and Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
09:00 to 10:30 EPP: Emerging People Plenary
New Jobs and Employment Opportunities
Panelists:
Nadia H. Hegazy, Minister Advisor, Ministry of Communication and IT, Egypt
Jyrki Pulikkinen, Senior Advisor, Information Society for Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland
Paulo Tigre, Professor of Industrial Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Juan Carlos Samovia (tbc), Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Pamela Passman, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Moderator:
Walter Fust, Chair of the GKP Executive Committee and Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Refreshments & Networking
10:30 to 11:00
Parallel Sessions & Workshops
11:00 to 12:30
EP5: BBC World Debate ET5: Transforming EP6: Changing Media EP7: Linking Education Young Social
SS3: Special Cross-
- The Future of Publishing Practices to and Citizen – Experiences with Entrepreneurs’ Clinic:
Cutting Session on the
Learning: Appropriate Enhance Access to Participation (tbc) National ICT You Ask, They Answer
Future
Technology Knowledge for Programmes for
Futurist’s Perspectives (By invitation only)
Development Education (tbc)
EM5: Partnerships, EM6: Computer Games ET6: Teleuse at the EP8: Knowledge EM7: Emerging
Networks and the Next for Global Bottom of the Pyramid Transfer for Knowledge
Generation of Development: Fact or (Part 1) Development – Opportunities (The
Telecentres Fiction? (tbc) Approaches to Progress of ICTs in
Community Asia-Pacific and Other
Empowerment and Parts of the World)
Future Strategies
Lunch & Networking
12:30 to 14:00
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6. GK3 Core Programme
Wednesday 12 Dec
Time Activity / Session
Creativity on Demand: It’s Possible!
13:00 to 13:30
Parallel Sessions
14:00 to 15:30
ET7: The Future of ET8: Innovative EP9: Creating a New EM8: Social
SS4: Special Cross-
Access Technology for Strategy for Gender in Outsourcing and Fair
Cutting Session on
Community Access the Information Trade in IT
Policy
Society: Empowering
Women in ICTs
EP10: Empowering EP11: Facilitating EM9: ICT From Village EP12: Building ET9: Multi-
Grassroots Women for Innovative Approach to to Country and Country Knowledge Societies, stakeholderism in
Good Governance Community to Globe What Makes the Internet Governance (a
through Community Development Difference? (tbc) look at ICANN and IGF)
Media
Refreshments & Networking
15:30 to 16:00
16:00 to 17:30 CCP: Cross-Cutting Plenary
Visions of the Future
Panellists:
TBA
Moderator:
TBA
Young Social Entrepreneurs’ Forum: I Pitch for YSEI Funding
16:00 to 17:30
Parallel Activity
Close of Day 2
17:30
Hakuna Matata: A Social Entrepreneurs’ Night
19:00 to 22:00
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7. GK3 Core Programme
Thursday 13 Dec
Thursday, 13 December 2007
GK3 Exhibition Hub open 08:00 to 19:00
Time Activity / Session
Commencement of Day 3
08:45 to 09:00
Introductions
09:00 to 10:30 ETP: Emerging Technologies Plenary
The Future of the Internet: Opportunities and Risks
Panellists:
Joi Ito (tbc), President and Founder, Neoteny Co., Ltd. Japan and Vice President of International Business and Mobile Devices, Technorati Inc.
Lynn St Amour(tbc), President and CEO of the Internet Society (ISOC)
Valerie D’Costa (tbc), Program Manager, Information for Development (infoDev), World Bank
Moderator:
Hamadoun I. Touré (tbc), Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Refreshments & Networking
10:30 to 11:00
Parallel Sessions
11:00 to 12:30
EP13: e-Agriculture - ET10: Health EM10: Sustaining EP14: Diplomacy Goes Young Social
SS5: Special Cross-
Continuing Dialogue to Outcomes: The Role of Telecentres Through Virtual: Opportunities Entrepreneurs’ Forum:
Cutting Session on
Action ICT Applications, Entrepreneurship and Limitations of
Education I Pitch for Scale-up
Standards and Virtual Diplomacy
Multi-Stakeholder Funding
Practices Partnerships in
Education: A Step
Forward
EP15: Accelerating ET11:Building a EM11: Emerging ET12: Government Call EP16: Guiding SOHO
Inclusion Through Cybersafety Learning Mechanisms Centres – Improving a Entrepreneurs and
Knowledge Sharing Partnership for Emerging Markets Citizen-Centric Workers into the
Approach (tbc) Information Economy
(Part 1)
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8. GK3 Core Programme
Thursday 13 Dec
Time Activity / Session
Lunch & Networking
12:30 to 14:00
Parallel Sessions
14:00 to 15:30
EP17: Telecentre.org ET13: Hello Regulator? EM12: Open For EP16: Guiding SOHO ET14: Exploring the
SS6: Special Cross-
Academy Regulatory Authorities’ Business: The Entrepreneurs and Future of e-
Cutting Session on ICT,
Information and Emerging Collaboration Workers into the Government:
Knowledge and Human
Communication Economy Information Economy Knowledge Engineering
Development Policy
Practices (Part 2) for Results
EP18: Sharing ET6: Teleuse at the ET15: Technology EP19: Gender
Practices, Gaining Bottom of the Pyramid Philanthropy: Evaluation
Innovative Experience (Part 2) Supporting NGOs and Methodology for ICT4D
Civil Society Worldwide Practitioners
Successfully
Refreshments & Networking
15:30 to 16:00
Closing Plenary
16:00 to 17:30
Close of Day 3 and GK3
17:30
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9. GK3 Non-Core Programme
GK3 Associated Events
In addition to the GK3 Core Programme, there is an array of
Sunday, 9 December 2007
Time Activity / Session
GKP – Global Action Network – Marc Lindenberg Centre Workshop “Leading Networks: Facilitation, Knowledge and Learning” (By invitation only)
TBC
i4d Film Festival
TBC
GAID International Taskforce on Women & ICT Meeting
TBC
Telecentre Leaders Forum
TBC
Monday, 10 December 2007
Time Activity / Session
World Electronic Media Forum 3
TBC
i4d Film Festival
TBC
GKP – Global Action Network – Marc Lindenberg Centre Workshop “Leading Networks: Facilitation, Knowledge and Learning” (By invitation only)
TBC
GAID International Taskforce on Women & ICT Meeting
TBC
Telecentre Leaders Forum
TBC
Young Social Entrepreneurs’ Forum: Speed Geek Session (By invitation only)
13:00 to 17:00
GKP 10th Anniversary Party (for GKP Members and invited guests only)
17:30 to 22:30
Tuesday 11, December 2007
Time Activity / Session
World Electronic Media Forum 3
TBC
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10. GK3 Non-Core Programme
Thursday 13, December 2007
Time Activity / Session
UNCTAD – WIPO – UNESCO – UNU “Knowledge Sharing for Development” – UN Inter-Agency Meeting on South-South Cooperation (Open to GK3 participants)
TBC
Friday, 14 December 2007
Time Activity / Session
UNCTAD – WIPO – UNESCO – UNU “Knowledge Sharing for Development” – UN Inter-Agency Meeting on South-South Cooperation (Closed meeting)
TBC
TBC Post Conference Tours / Field Trips
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11. Day 1: Tuesday 11 Dec
GK3 Core Programme
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
GK3 Exhibition Hub open 08:00 to 19:00
Time Activity / Session
08:00 Arrival & Registration of Participants & Guests
GK3 CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY
09:00
Welcome Address
09:15 to 09:25
Rinalia Abdul Rahim
Executive Director, Global Knowledge Partnership
Chair of the GK3 Working Committee
Opening Address
09:25 to 09:40
Walter Fust
Chair of the Executive Committee, Global Knowledge Partnership
Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Opening Keynote Addresses
09:40 to 10:30
The Hon. Dato’ Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi
Prime Minister, Malaysia
H.E. Ban Ki-Moon (tbc)
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Refreshments & Networking
10:30 to 11:00
11:00 to 12:30 EMP: Emerging Markets Plenary
Emerging Markets: Is there a Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?
This interactive session will convene high-level IT visionaries from emerging countries, and
those venturing into emerging markets to debate on what is the next innovation in technology,
the next cutting edge industry, and the next emerging market target countries. Discussion
will include open dialogue on how their own organisational engagement is changing the world
for women and young people.
This session will address the following key questions:
What vision do these companies have in emerging markets for the next five years?
•
What drives this vision?
Where are these companies making an impact, and where are they not? Why have they
•
stayed away from or left certain countries?
What are the differences between a global company looking for emerging markets, and
•
an emerging markets company going global?
What is the value of diversity as companies learn to work across multi-cultural contexts?
•
How does this value fit into investment decisions on emerging markets?
Panellists:
Orlando Ayala, Senior Vice President, Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft Corporation
John E. Davies, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group / General Manager, World
Ahead, Intel Corporation
Valerie Faudon (tbc), Vice President, Programs Alcatel Corporate Marketing Office, Paris
Priya Haji (tbc), Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, World of Goods Inc.
Dirk Meyer (tbc), President and Chief Operating Officer, AMD
Moderator:
Veronica Pedrosa (tbc), Presenter (News Anchor/Journalist), Al Jazeera International
(Malaysia)
IdeaFactory – Creative Team (Part 1) (By invitation only)
11:00 to 12:30
Parallel Activity
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12. Day 1: Tuesday 11 Dec
Time Activity / Session
Lunch & Networking
12:30 to 14:00
Parallel Sessions
14:00 to 15:30
14:00 to 15:30 ET1: Emerging Technologies Session
ICT for a Multilingual Knowledge Society
Parallel Session 1
This session addresses the importance of localisation to ICT4D and K4D, and explores
relevant trends and connections. Linguistic and cultural diversity are realities of development,
and knowledge is expressed and conveyed in all languages and cultures. ICT can transcend
all language and cultures, and it is our willingness to exploit that potential that will make a
difference in ensuring full access to technology for effective participation in development and
the knowledge society. Localisation includes ensuring content and user interfaces are
available in all users' languages, and adapted to cultural preferences and sensitivities. It is a
growing area of concern in business and is a process supported by internationalisation of
technology. Its application in development is an emerging and promising concern that merits
greater attention.
Panellists:
Adama Samassékou, Academy African Languages
Lisa Moore (tbc), Software Engineer, IBM Corporation & Co-Chair, Internationalization and
Unicode Conferences
Sarmad Hussain, Associate Professor & Head Center for Research in Urdu Language
Processing, NUCES, Lahore, Pakistan
Dwayne Bailey, Founder and Managing Director of Translate.org.za
Donald Osborn, Coordinator of the PanAfrican Localisation Project, Bisharat.net
Mark Davis (tbc), Google Inc.
Moderator:
TBA
14:00 to 15:30 EM1: Emerging Markets Session
Electronic Banking with the Poor: Emerging Technologies for Financial Inclusion
Parallel Session 2
This session shows how innovative electronic banking with the poor (e-BWTP) - mobile
phone banking, ATMs, and micro-credit cards - is key to achieving financial inclusion for the
global masses of 'unbanked' people, and for enabling their participation in the digital
economy.
This session will address the following key questions:
Why is e-BWTP crucial for financial and economic inclusion?
•
How are new technologies changing the landscape of microfinance and impacting its
•
methodologies?
How are mobile phones, credit cards, ATMs and other innovations being used to deliver
•
banking services?
What are the constraints to widespread rollout of e-BWTP?
•
Panellists:
Manish Khera (tbc), CEO, Financial Information Network and Operations Ltd
Alexander Yevtiushkin (tbc), Head of IIS Directorate for Innovation and Investment Projects,
Russia
Brian Richardson (tbc), Managing Director, Wizzit Bank
Bob Hughes (tbc), Managing Director, National Bank of Vanuatu
Juan Vega, Director Regional, PROMIFIN – COSUDE
Edith Garcia, Branch Manager, Fondo de Desarollo Local (Local Development Fund),
Nicaragua
Moderator:
Stuart Mathison, Head – Technology Initiatives, The Foundation for Development
Cooperation
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13. Day 1: Tuesday 11 Dec
Time Activity / Session
14:00 to 15:30 SS1: Special Cross-Cutting Session on Financing
Financing Change in ICT4D: Innovative & Emerging Social Investors and Donors
Parallel Session 3
Hundreds of ICT4D initiatives have been implemented throughout the world. The majority of
these could be described as ‘pilot’ projects - showcase initiatives exemplifying the application
of ICT-enabled solutions for sustainable development and poverty reduction. However, while
these pilots have captured the imagination of many, few have achieved a level of outreach to
claim a truly wide impact. ‘Scaling up’ strategies are urgently needed, in particular for
financing scaling-up of ICT4D initiatives.
This roundtable discussion will address the following key questions:
What development activities take priority – “bread or computers”?
•
What are the perceived risks in investing in ICT4D or ‘development.com’ activities? How
•
do we address these perceptions?
How do we break the mould of “traditional” donor financing to engage other sectors?
•
Social Venture Capitalist and Micro-Financing – are these viable alternatives?
•
Panellists:
Danilo Piaggesi (tbc), Chief of the Information Technology for Development (SDS/ICT),
Inter-American Development Bank
Walter Fust, Chair of the Global Knowledge Partnership Executive Committee and Director-
General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director-General, Information & Communications, UNESCO
Victor D’Allant (tbc), Executive Director of Social Edge, Skoll Foundation
Sudheer J. Kappam (tbc), Managing Director, INTEL Capital
Juan Vega (tbc), Director Regional, PROMIFIN - COSUDE
Bernhard Lorentz (tbc), Director/CEO, Vodafone Foundation Germany
Martha Choe (tbc), Director of the Global Libraries Program, The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
Michael Spence (tbc), Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus Stanford University,
California
James D. Wolfensohn (tbc), Former President of the World Bank & Former Special Envoy of
the Quartet to the Middle East
Moderator:
Rohinton Medhora (tbc), Vice President, International Development Research Centre,
Canada
14:00 to 15:30 EM2: Emerging Markets Session (tbc)
Connecting The Diaspora: Migration As An Opportunity
Parallel Session 4
Learn how large migrant populations in search for better livelihoods and educational
opportunities are using ICT to connect with family and friends in their home countries, and
how this phenomenon is opening up a number of new opportunities such as e-remittances, i-
malls, online matrimony sites and more.
This session will address the following key questions:
What are the real needs of Diaspora communities on both sides of the “wall”?
•
How can we trigger productive use of remittances in communities from where migrants
•
leave?
How do we link Diaspora communities through innovative projects using ICT?
•
What is needed for such projects to take off? What barriers need to be removed?
•
Panellists:
Michel J. Menou, Board Member of the Telecenters of the Americas Partnership, Visiting
Professor London City University, School of Informatics
Verónica Lucía Rivadeneira Astudillo, Administrator of the Virtual Learning Center,
Salesiana University of Quito (UPS) / Project Officer of the Corporacion Tercer Entorno
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14. Day 1: Tuesday 11 Dec
Time Activity / Session
(CORTEN)
Ana María Rivadeneira, Ecuadorian Migrant
Aruna Sunderarajan, CEO, Infrastrucure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS)
Moderator:
Christoph Roessner, Officer for Project Development, Fundación ChasquiNet
IdeaFactory – Creative Team (Part 2) (By invitation only)
14:00 to 15:30
Parallel Session 5
14:00 to 15:30 EP1: Emerging People Workshop
India as a Trend Setter for Successful Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
Parallel Session 6
Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) which engages other active stakeholders in
development, especially in the applications of ICT for Development, are emerging as an
important model of working, and replacing the much understood public-private partnership
model. The obvious question following this trend would be “Can MSP deliver and where does
the value of MSP go?” This workshop attempts to show how MSP can achieve a many
benefits including facilitating a conducive environment for monitoring and evaluation,
ensuring the mandate of good governance and citizen participation, further democratic
principles of equitable and sustainable development, while addressing social, cultural and
economic inequities. MSP processes can also be shown to promote innovation and
encourage inclusive growth by bringing together and involving civil society, local
administration, private sector, national governments and international organisations
Panellists will showcase India as a trend-setter in the concept of ‘Glocalisation’ i.e. ‘Think
Globally, Act Locally’. Glocalisation, in the Indian setting, is grounded in valuing local
communities, empowering them and enabling them to be catalysts for positive social changes
in areas which affect them directly. Enabled through the Internet and ICT, Glocalisation is a
new paradigm for international relations and an innovative practice of development
cooperation.
This workshop will address the following key questions:
What is the key learning and value of multi-stakeholder partnerships in linking
•
technologies, resources and services for development?
How can we replicate the learning and leverage on uniqueness and commonalities
•
across communities to build a coherent network of practitioners for spreading benefits of
the MSP model?
How can we design ICT4D programmes that address marginalized communities, gender
•
sensitive and which accommodate existing cultural ethos?
How does networking and knowledge sharing enable communities of practitioners to
•
build a network for continuous peer-to-peer learning?
Panellists:
M.S. Swaminathan, Founder and Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
S. Sadagopan, Director, IIITB, Bangalore
Shri R. Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Department of IT, Government of India
Ashish Garg, Programme Coordinator, GeSCI India
Ravi Gupta, Executive Director, CSDMS
Moderator:
Radhika Lal, Policy Advisor, ICTs for Poverty Reduction, United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
14:00 to 15:30 EP2: Emerging People Session
Engendering the Knowledge Society: Measuring Women's Participation
Parallel Session 7
The World Summit on the Information Society Plan of Action calls for the development of
gender–specific indicators on ICT use and needs. This panel will report on the results of a
project to develop gender–specific indicators on ICT use, needs and impacts both for the
information society as well as the broader knowledge society. These indicators are intended
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15. Day 1: Tuesday 11 Dec
Time Activity / Session
to assess, monitor and promote gender equality in employment, training, education and
participation in the knowledge–based society, at national and international levels. In
recognizing women's role as consumers and participants in the knowledge economy, as
skilled workers, entrepreneurs, and producers, panellists will also address ways to measure,
monitor and assess women's participation in the knowledge society, both qualitatively and
quantitatively.
This session will address the following key questions:
Why is women’s participation important in developing a knowledge society?
•
What are the specific factors that affect women’s participation in the knowledge society?
•
What do we know about rates of women's participation at this time?
•
What steps can be taken in policy, programming and projects to promote greater
•
participation of women in a national knowledge society?
Panellists:
Nancy Hafkin (tbc), Senior Associate, WIGSAT
Chat Garcia (tbc), Coordinator, WNSP, APC
Pierre Montagnier (tbc), Information, Computer and Communications Policy Division,
Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
OECD
Moderator:
Sophia Huyer, Executive Director WIGSAT and Member, Steering Committee, International
Taskforce on Women and ICTs
14:00 to 15:30 EM3: Emerging Markets Session (tbc)
Incubating Entrepreneurship: Developing World Tech Incubation Centres (Part 1)
Parallel Session 8
This session will explore the policies, investment strategies (including public-private-
partnerships), and how business support mechanisms, such as business incubators, both
physical and virtual, can facilitate ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship in the
developing world.
Panellists:
TBA
Moderator:
TBA
14:00 to 15:30 ET2: Emerging Technologies Workshop
Collaborative Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Networks (Part 1)
Parallel Session 9
Many network or community-building events, whether large or small, often result in low levels
of interaction among participants due to their design. Typically, members of the audience
passively listen to speakers or panellists, with few opportunities for lengthy discussion or
dialogue, leading to staid mono-directional conversations. Effective participation can be
achieved through the use of collaborative tools, which can be employed prior to, during and
after the event. This session provides a space for exchange of issues and ideas related to
facilitating learning whether in the context of a network, community or team, face-to-face or
virtual. Join this session to be introduced to facilitation techniques such as quot;Open Spacesquot;,
“World Café”, quot;Speed Geek”; and collaborative tools such wikis, blogs, instant messaging
(IM), mailing lists and social bookmarking.
This workshop will address the following key questions:
How can events be designed to enable stronger community and network strengthening?
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Which are the methodologies that can facilitate learning and interaction?
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Which collaborative tools work in which contexts? How are tools chosen? What are the
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lessons?
How can facilitation techniques and collaborative tools work effectively in combination?
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16. Day 1: Tuesday 11 Dec
Time Activity / Session
Facilitators:
Kemly Camacho, Sulá Batsú
Margarita Salas, Program Officer, Sulá Batsú
Lena Zuniga, Program Officer, Sulá Batsú
Rohit K. Nepali, Executive Director, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International
Shikha Shrestha, Program Officer, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International, Bellanet
Bibhusan Bista, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International, Bellanet
Abubaker Basajjabaka, Program Officer, AITEC Development, Bellanet
Jacqueline Nnam, AITEC Development, Bellanet
Vincent Waiswa Bagiire, AITEC Development
Chris Messina, Ciziten Executive Officer, Citizen Agency
Lucy Lamoureux, Coordinator, KM4Dev
Refreshments & Networking
15:30 to 16:00
Parallel Sessions
16:00 to 17:30
16:00 to 17:30 EP3: Emerging People Session
Making Community-Driven Networks a Reality
Parallel Session 1
The growing importance of ICT for local communities and the slow progress in scaling-up
provision of affordable access under current approaches have led to a drive to harness the
potential of new network management and ownership models in combination with new
technologies. This panel brings together practitioners, community actors and experienced
regulators to draw attention to practical and scalable solutions for ensuring and sustaining
local community access to ICT by demonstrating feasible community-driven networks
emerging in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These networks are community initiated, owned
and run as thriving enterprises, and have the potential to increase the viability of existing
community ICT access - low-cost telephony and internet access, ICT tools and other services
– which, in turn, facilitates local service development and communication for empowerment,
e.g. through community radio and video.
Panellists:
Edwin San Roman, Former president of the Latin American telecom regulators’ association,
Regulatel, and of Peru’s telecom regulator, (OSIPTEL)
Zarah Almeida, Presenter from iREACH project in Cambodia
Long Dimanche, Presenter from iREACH project in Cambodia
Albert Nsengiyumva, Coordinator, Rwanda Education and Research Network
Maicu Alvarado, Head of ICT for Development, CEPES (Peruvian Centre for Social
Studies), Peru
Bruce Girard, Director, Comunica
Moderators:
Radhika Lal, Policy Advisor, ICT for Poverty Reduction, United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
Sean Ó Siochrú, Consultant , Nexus Research Cooperative
16:00 to 17:30 EM3: Emerging Markets Workshop (tbc)
Incubating Entrepreneurship: Developing World Tech Incubation Centres (Part 2)
Parallel Session 2
This workshop accompanies panel EM3.
Facilitators:
TBA
16:00 to 17:30 SS2: Special Cross-Cutting Session on Knowledge (tbc)
Knowledge Management for Development – Innovations Lessons & Perspectives
Parallel Session 3
A panel of Knowledge Management experts will discuss Indigenous knowledge, innovative
approaches to learning, and ‘Knowledge as a Global Public Good’ with the objective of
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Time Activity / Session
facilitating connections between people who can share knowledge and create meaning and
understanding together.
Panellists:
TBA
Moderator:
TBA
16:00 to 17:30 ET3: Emerging Technologies Session
Open Access: Sharing Research, Expanding Resources
Parallel Session 4
In this practical workshop, panellists from Latin America, Asia and Africa will show how Open
Access is a winning proposition for all by presenting their own, real experiences that will
equip participants with the information, encouragement, and contacts to return to their own
institutions as leaders in Open Access. Focusing on Institutional Repositories (IR) as a
means to expand the research resources and networks of researchers and research
institutions, participants will gain practical suggestions for designing an IR model for their own
organisations and to address such topics as building organisational readiness; intellectual
property and knowledge sharing issues; technical requirements; resource finding; content
recruitment; and digitisation.
Panellists:
Dra. Dominique Babini, Coordinadora, Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencieas Sociales
Naina Pandita, Senior Technical Director, Ministry of Communications and IT, Department of
Information Technology, National Informatics Centre, India
Martie J. van Deventer, Portfolio Manager, CSIR’s Information Services, South Africa
Moderator:
Marjorie Whalen, Director, Research Information Management Service Division,
International Development Research Centre
Young Social Entrepreneurs’ Forum @ GK3
16:00 to 17:30
What You Always Wanted To Know From Funding Institutions …
Parallel Session 5
“Hear it from the horse’s mouth” - commercial banks, donors, venture capitalists, Corporate
Social Responsibility investors, microfinance institutions, share their priorities and
requirements when granting funding. A must for fund seekers, as this is essential knowledge
for deciphering who to approach and how.
16:00 to 17:30 ET4: Emerging Technologies Session
Making Communities Disaster Resilient
Parallel Session 6
Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an alliance of civil society and private sector
organisations have been striving to develop a robust solution for strengthening community
resilience in the face of natural disasters. Efforts have ranged from technological innovation,
such as remotely activated warning devices, to field simulations. Initiated pilot projects can
now provide real data to support implementation. Panellists intend to share learning for
regional scaling-up of these pilots.
This session will address the following key questions:
How can the essential public good of hazard warning be produced in adequate
•
quantities and quality?
Why do governments appear to have other priorities?
•
How can communities organise themselves to become disaster resilient?
•
How can the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) be successfully implemented in a multi-
•
technology, multi-language, multi-country environment like the Bay of Bengal region?
Panellists:
Vinya Ariyaratne, Executive Director, Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka
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Time Activity / Session
Natasha Udu-gama, Former Consultant, Sarvodaya Community-based Disaster
Management Centre
Nuwan Waidyanatha, Project Manager, LIRNEasia
Mothilal de Silva, General Manager, Corporate Planning, Quality Systems, MIS & Corporate
Development, Dialog Telekom
Mala Rao, Manager Closed User Group Solution, WorldSpace Corporation (India)
Moderator:
Rohan Samarajiva, Executive Director, LIRNEasia
16:00 to 17:30 EP4: Emerging People Session
Creating Opportunity: Basic IT skills as a Springboard to Jobs
Parallel Session 7
This session will feature NGO practitioners who have become a major force in developing
innovative and successful strategies for delivering IT skills training that meets the needs of
their local communities in employability, and for starting a business. These strategies also
satisfy demands by employers as well as provide lifelong learning opportunities in ICT for
adults, youth and disadvantaged communities, and are welcomed by industry and
governmental leaders shaping programmes and policies, including for telecentres, as key
drivers in national workforce initiatives.
This session will address the following key questions:
What are the best practices for IT training programmes that lead to effective
•
employability?
How can IT skills be made most relevant to local contexts?
•
What is the role of telecentres within the ecosystem of other community organisations,
•
for profit training centers, and government services?
How can public-private partnerships and public policies support IT skills building as part
•
of lifelong learning?
Panellists:
David Rojas, OAS (POETA Project)
Representative, Project Harmony (tba)
Representative, AjialCom, Morocco (tba)
Marc Botella, Esplai
Moderator:
Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Global Community Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
16:00 to 17:30 EM4: Emerging Markets Session (tbc)
Rural Societies, Technologies and Languages in Africa
Parallel Session 8
One formidable obstacle to ICT diffusion is language. In 2005, only 20% of all Web sites in
the world were in languages other than English, and most of these were in Japanese,
German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Less than ten percent of people in
larger regions of Africa are English-literate while the rest, more than two billion, speak
languages that are sparsely represented on the Web. As a result, the many people in these
regions have little use for computers, and in turn, have little means to drive market demands
for computer applications in their language. This session tackles the difficulties associated
with access to ICT as a result of limitation of language. Panellists will demonstrate how
African research universities are working on various techniques to promote greater access to
and usage of ICT, including developing prototypes, and explore potential technologies that
can be adapted for rural communities in Africa such as mobile commerce (m-commerce).
Panellists:
Maurice Tadajeu, Professor, Universite de Yaounde, Cameroon
Adama Samassekou, President of Maaya – the World Network for Linguistic Diversity,
World Network for Linguistic Diversity
Brian Richardson (tbc), Managing Director, Wizzit Bank
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Time Activity / Session
Moderator:
Aida Opoku-Mensah, Director, ICT and Science & Technology Division (ISTD), United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa
16:00 to 17:30 ET2: Emerging Technologies Workshop
Collaborative Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Networks (Part 2)
Parallel Session 9
Many network or community-building events, whether large or small, often result in low levels
of interaction among participants due to their design. Typically, members of the audience
passively listen to speakers or panellists, with few opportunities for lengthy discussion or
dialogue, leading to staid mono-directional conversations. Effective participation can be
achieved through the use of collaborative tools, which can be employed prior to, during and
after the event. This session provides a space for exchange of issues and ideas related to
facilitating learning whether in the context of a network, community or team, face-to-face or
virtual. Join this session to be introduced to facilitation techniques such as quot;Open Spacesquot;,
“World Café”, quot;Speed Geek”; and collaborative tools such wikis, blogs, instant messaging
(IM), mailing lists and social bookmarking.
This workshop will address the following key questions:
How can events be designed to enable stronger community and network strengthening?
•
Which are the methodologies that can facilitate learning and interaction?
•
Which collaborative tools work in which contexts? How are tools chosen? What are the
•
lessons?
How can facilitation techniques and collaborative tools work effectively in combination?
•
Facilitators:
Kemly Camacho, Sulá Batsú
Margarita Salas, Program Officer, Sulá Batsú
Lena Zuniga, Program Officer, Sulá Batsú
Rohit K. Nepali, Executive Director, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International
Shikha Shrestha, Program Officer, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International, Bellanet
Bibhusan Bista, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International, Bellanet
Abubaker Basajjabaka, Program Officer, AITEC Development, Bellanet
Jacqueline Nnam, AITEC Development, Bellanet
Vincent Waiswa Bagiire, AITEC Development
Chris Messina, Ciziten Executive Officer, Citizen Agency
Lucy Lamoureux, Coordinator, KM4Dev
Close of Day 1
17:30
GK3 Gala Dinner
19:30 to 22:00
Stockholm Challenge – GKP Awards 2007
African Information Society Initiative (AISI) – GKP Media Awards 2007
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007
GK3 Exhibition Hub & IdeaFactory - Creative City Exhibition open 08:00 to 19:00
Time Activity / Session
Commencement of Day 2
08:45 to 09:00
Introduction to the Emerging People Plenary
M.S. Swaminathan, Founder and Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
09:00 to 10:30 EPP: Emerging People Plenary
New Jobs and Employment Opportunities
ICT and the advent of the knowledge economy have led to knowledge-intensive activities in
production and services based on technical and scientific advances. The distinguishing
feature is that the key component of a knowledge economy is greater reliance on intellectual
capabilities compared to physical inputs or natural resources. Do countries have the
necessary education and skilled people who can use knowledge to innovate and create
economic value? Are dynamic information infrastructures prevailing to facilitate effective
communication, dissemination and processing of information? Are incentives in place to
encourage efficient use of existing and new knowledge, and to enable entrepreneurship to
flourish? To what extent is employment created by ICT and knowledge? This panel will
provide evidence and explore ways in which new ICT industries, skills and competencies
generate entrepreneurial capacities, employment opportunities, as well as new social and
economic issues and challenges.
This session will address the following key questions:
How are new employment opportunities being created in different parts of the world?
•
What is the nature of these new emerging jobs: in what specific sectors, and what are
•
the requisite skills for these new jobs?
What strategies are governments and the private sector using to harness these
•
opportunities for citizens?
How does this affect national economic growth issues and tackle migration challenges
•
from the South to the North?
Panellists:
Nadia H. Hegazy, Minister Advisor, Ministry of Communication and IT, Egypt
Jyrki Pulikkinen, Senior Advisor, Information Society for Development, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Finland
Paulo Tigre, Professor of Industrial Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ),
Brazil
Juan Carlos Samovia (tbc), Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Pamela Passman, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate and Regulatory
Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Moderator:
Walter Fust, Chair of the Global Knowledge Partnership Executive Committee and Director-
General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Refreshments & Networking
10:30 to 11:00
Parallel Sessions
11:00 to 12:30
11:00 to 12:30 EP5: Emerging People Session
BBC World Debate - The Future of Learning: Appropriate Technology
Parallel Session 1
This is a debate between those who see technology as being a means of fast-tracking
development and those who would rather concentrate on fixing the ‘basic needs’ first. For
example, the idea of providing every child with a computer as a resource to change education
and learning has always generated great interest and controversy. As long as it was
perceived simply as an idea, it remained within the sphere of academic and intellectual
speculation. The creation of a low-cost laptop computer by the Media Lab at MIT and the
establishment of ‘One-Laptop-Per-Child’ as a non-for profit company to manufacture and
distribute it, turned this idea into a reality and, thus, into a hot and controversial topic for
researchers, policy makers and governments as well as for private sector and technology
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corporations. Nicholas Negroponte has led the creation of the device and generated strong
reactions from both hardware and software manufacturers. Intel has its Classmate Laptop
computer in small pilot initiatives in several Latin American countries, including, Brazil and
Costa Rica. Joining the fray now are India and China.
This session will bring together some of the expert thinkers and policy makers to lead the
debate on key aspects of this controversial revolution with members of agencies and
development banks that either support or question these projects. The aim is to contribute to
knowledge sharing and open dialogue to better understand this major change in educational
and investment policy as well as to bring some balance and meaning to the current
discussions on the topic.
The debate will be recorded for broadcast by BBC World TV as part of its World Debate
series. These debates reach weekly audiences over four time zones of more than 93 million
in English.
Panellists:
Martha Stone Wiske, Professor of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Others TBA
Moderator:
Zeinab Badawi, Broadcaster and Trustee, BBC World Service Trust, UK
11:00 to 12:30 ET5: Emerging Technologies Session
Transforming Publishing Practices to Enhance Access to Acknowledge for
Parallel Session 2
Development
Existing international copyright regime is known to hinder distribution and access to
knowledge in developing countries. With the advent of the Internet and latest innovations in
ICT, new advocates have emerged to campaign for the introduction of greater copyright
flexibility. Flexible licensing models which have surfaced, such as ‘Creative Commons’, are
being applied as alternative ways to promote and facilitate access to knowledge. This
session brings together practitioners from the publishing industry as well as intellectual
property and copyright specialists to draw benefits from flexible licensing.
This session will address the following key questions:
What role does licensing play in facilitating knowledge flow? Is flexible licensing likely to
•
bring potential benefits to knowledge transfer? What evidence are we looking for?
If flexible licensing does indeed provide benefits, how is it to be implemented in
•
practice?
How does one go about changing business practices? Who pays for what, and at what
•
stage?
Do some business models bring better value for consumers or are some of the newer
•
ones actually driving total costs up?
Panellists:
Francis Pinter, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK
Bob Young, CEO and Founder of lulu.com
Brian Wafawarowa, Managing Director New Africa Books and Chair of APNET, South Africa
Sisule Musungu, Post-Doctoral Associate in Law, Yale Law School, USA
Moderator:
Rob Robertson, Special Advisor (Law & Development), International Development Research
Centre, Canada
11:00 to 12:30 EP6: Emerging People Session 6 (tbc)
Changing Media and Citizen Participation
Parallel Session 3
This panel will bring together the emerging stars of the citizen’s media sector in the global
arena to highlight the bridges which bloggers build, the work they do in the human rights field
and how they train the next generation of emerging journalists – even in quite closed
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societies such as Iran. They work across cultures and languages. They are often early
warning systems for political, human rights and development issues, and are newsmakers in
their own right, connecting bottom up communication with mainstream news.
This session will address the following key questions:
What are new and innovative ways of training citizens to become journalists in countries
•
whose administration exert censorship?
How are stories from one culture innovatively brought to another across continents and
•
languages, and how is citizen media impacting on development and human rights
issues?
How are the Internet and social software applications developed in the North plugging
•
local development initiatives in the South to the global plane?
How are free and freely available software and tools - such as blogging platforms and
•
mobile phones - being used innovatively in the absence of widely accessible platforms
and info-structure?
Panellists:
Dan Gillmore, Author “We the Media. Grassroots journalism for the People By the People”
Ethan Zuckerman, Co-Founder Global Voice, Berkman Center, Harvard
Ory Okolloh, Blogger at Kenya Pundit, Global Voices
Sina Motalebi, Editor, ZigZag Magazine, World Service Trust
Moderator:
Lucy Hooberman, Innovation Executive, BBC Innovation / World Service Trust
11:00 to 12:30 SS3: Special Cross-Cutting Session on the Future (tbc)
Futurist’s Perspectives
Parallel Session 4
More details will be published in due course.
Panellists:
TBA
Moderator:
TBA
11:00 to 12:30 EP7: Emerging People Session (tbc)
Linking Education – Experiences with National ICT Programmes for Education
Parallel Session 5
This panel answers the question “How can successful local initiatives in ICT in education be
linked up to national education programmes?” by linking a number of ongoing projects to
larger scale government initiatives for integrating ICT. These include Burkina Faso, Namibia
and Zambia in Africa; while Bolivia and Costa Rica also make interesting efforts to apply ICT
on a national scale. These countries are supported through a number of GKP members and
other partners such as the Omar Dengo Foundation, Global E-schools Initiative and IICD.
Panellists:
Ronald Kim, Senior Operations Officer, Knowledge and Human Development Group, World
Bank Institute
Afzal Sher (tbc), Director, SPIDER
Representative, Government Costa Rica (tba)
Representative, Government Zambia (tba)
Representative, Omar Dengo Foundation (tba)
Moderator:
Stijn van der Krogt, Team Leader Country Programmes, International Institute for
Communication & Development (IICD)
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Time Activity / Session
Young Social Entrepreneurs’ Clinic: You Ask, They Answer …
11:00 to 12:30
Parallel Session 6 (By invitation only)
Eight eminent personalities from various backgrounds wait to share their thoughts, learning
and tips with young social entrepreneurs – in small-group question & answer sessions driven
by the participants. Get ready to ask!
11:00 to 12:30 EM5: Emerging Markets Session
Partnerships, Networks and the Next Generation of Telecentres
Parallel Session 7
As the telecentre movement shifts its focus from access to a new generation of value-added
rural services, there is a deeper emphasis on building partnerships across sectors.
Collaborations between global corporations, international funders, national governments and
grassroots organisations are on the rise. This panel will draw on four partnership success
stories - telecentre.org; the government of India's Common Service Centres (CSC)
programme; CDI in Uruguay; and the One Roof Network - that demonstrate the value and
effectiveness of different collaborative models.
This session will address the following key questions:
Why are these kinds of partnerships needed?
•
What does each of the partners get out of this sort of collaboration?
•
What do they have to put into the partnership?
•
Do these partnerships really produce better results?
•
Panellists:
Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Global Community Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Aruna Sundararajan, CEO, Common Service Centres Initiative, Government of India
Julia Peruzzi, CDI Uruguay
Representative, One Roof (tba)
Moderator:
Mark Surman, Former Director, telecentre.org
11:00 to 12:30 EM6: Emerging Markets Session (tbc)
Computer Games for Global Development: Fact or Fiction?
Parallel Session 8
This session features a presentation and discussion on the unique opportunities of interactive
media as embodied by video games. Panellists will examine video game technology as a
platform for education, creativity, innovation, communication, and discovery, and the
importance of using this technology for global development.
This session will address the following key questions:
How are video games different from any other educational platform? Why is this medium
•
important?
In what ways can the world make use of interactive digital media?
•
What barriers currently prevent proper exploitation of this medium for learning
•
purposes?
How can we tear down such barriers?
•
Panellists:
TBA
Moderator:
Klaus Stoll, President, Fundación ChasquiNet, Ecuador
11:00 to 12:30 ET6: Emerging Technologies Session
Teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid (Part 1)
Parallel Session 9
Join this interactive quiz show, which will include a video segment describing a ~9,000
respondent survey conducted among the low social economic class populations (SEC D&E)
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populations in five countries in Asia, a segment on popular misconceptions, a quiz with two
teams and audience participation and a concluding segment, also supported by video content
on policy implications. A mobile user survey by the LIRNE.NET Latin America and Caribbean
network, DIRSI, will also be launched during this session.
This session will address the following key questions:
What are the misconceptions about teleuse (including Internet) at the Bottom of the
•
Pyramid (BOP)?
What is the exact nature of demand at the BOP (in terms of using common facilities;
•
getting connected; keeping connected)?
What strategic behaviors do users at the BOP engage in?
•
What policy and regulatory barriers stand in the way of the BOP being served?
•
Panellists:
Ayesha Zainudeen, Researcher and Assistant to the Executive Director, LIRNEasia
Judith Mariscal, Project Leader and Research Director (DIRSI), and Professor, Centre for
Economic Teaching and Research (CIDE), Mexico
Alison Gillwald, Researcher, LINK Centre and Research Director, Research ICT Africa!
Moderator:
Nalaka Gunawardene, Director, TVE Asia Pacific
11:00 to 12:30 EP8: Emerging People Session
Knowledge Transfer for Development - Approaches to Community Empowerment and
Parallel Session 10
Future Strategies
This panel will explore issues in providing equal opportunity to marginalised communities,
how to empower them with knowledge and skills, using techniques that have worked from a
variety of perspectives:
Research: exploring how Community Informatics provide insight into how to develop
•
sustainable and transferable processes for applying ICT to empower community;
Practice: seeing how ICT have been used for knowledge transfer as a basis for rural
•
economic development in Bangladesh;
Practice: providing insight into appropriate and sustainable business strategies, and
•
support for enabling participation of women and empowering them in development of
Mauritius businesses; and
Strategies for Future: Knowledge Transactions Mechanisms and investment efficiency
•
in Development.
This session will address the following key questions:
What is the Role of K4D & ICT4D in Empowerment?
•
What are the Tools & Techniques for K4D & ICT4D that have worked?
•
What should be the policies, strategies, standards, customisation guidelines and
•
corresponding implications on Development?
What is the impact versus unknowns, and how do we measure the effectiveness of
•
these initiatives?
Panellists:
Michael Gurstein, Executive Director, CCIRDT
Nareen Sukurdeep, Productivity Consultant, National Productivity & Competitiveness
Council, Mauritius
Reza Salim, Project Director, Amader Gram ICT4D Project, Bangladesh Friendship
Education Society
H. Sundaresan, Director, Friday Solutions Private Limited, India
P. Ramanujan (tbc), Group Co-ordinator, Indian Heritage Group, C-DAC, Bangalore, India
Moderator:
TBA
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11:00 to 12:30 EM7: Emerging Markets Session
Emerging Knowledge Opportunities (The Progress of ICT in Asia-Pacific and Other
Parallel Session 11
Parts of the World)
This session will launch two of Orbicom's research publications published jointly with IDRC:
quot;Digital Review of Asia-Pacificquot;, and quot;Emerging Knowledge Opportunities: Monitoring
Infostates for Developmentquot;. Panellists will explain the relationship and impact of ICT
products, industries and overall Infostates on the emergence and growth of new markets,
including parallel evolution of labour markets, with particular emphasis on the role of women,
and across countries at different stages of development. The completely updated edition of
the Digital Review of Asia Pacific reports on how ICT are being used in 30 Asia Pacific
countries for development. Panellists will also address the regional dynamics and challenges
in promoting the building of a people-centered, development-oriented and inclusive
information society and present research outcomes in the use of ICT in risk communication,
mobile and wireless communications, intellectual property, localisation, as well as an
overview of ICT4D in Asia Pacific.
Panellists:
Danny Butt, Partner, Suma Media Consulting, New Zealand
Rajesh Sreenivasan, Partner, Rajah & Tann, Singapore
Alison Gillwald, LINK Centre, University of the Witwaters and Research ICT Africa
George Sciadas, Fellow-in-Residence, IDRC
Moderator:
Claude-Yves Charron, Secretary General, Orbicom
Lunch & Networking
12:30 to 14:00
Creativity on Demand: It’s Possible!
13:00 to 13:30
A presentation on the innovative industrial idea production process of BrainStore,
implemented at GK3 to find ideas that lead to a world of entrepreneurs by 2020.
Parallel Sessions
14:00 to 15:30
14:00 to 15:30 ET7: Emerging Technologies Session
The Future of Access
Parallel Session 1
What will the immediate and long-term future of access look like? Some service and
communication providers operate under the engineering assumption that bandwidth and
storage costs will continue to decline. Should remote locations and mobile access no longer
remain barriers to the growth and development on network access, access should then
increase where customers are concerned. This panel discusses market dynamics,
technology developments, legal and regulatory issues, and the role of public and private
sectors in ensuring access to networks in the future.
Panellists:
Hamadoun I. Touré (tbc), Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Monique Morrow, Distinguished Consulting Engineer and Asia-Pacific Service Provider
Chief Technology Officer, Cisco
Ross O'Brien, Managing Director, Hong Kong, Economic Intelligence Unit, The Economist
Alison Gillwald, LINK Centre, University of the Witwaters and Research ICT Africa
Moderator:
Steve Song, Director Connectivity Africa and the Acacia Programme, International
Development Research Centre (IDRC)
14:00 to 15:30 ET8: Emerging Technologies Session
Innovative Technology for Community Access
Parallel Session 2
This panel will present how telecentres can address social, economic, political and
educational priorities for rural communities. The panel will explore how telecentres can act as
a bridge between rural and urban communities, and how this is redefining the very concept of
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what telecentres can do. It will demonstrate that telecentres’ impact goes beyond the
technology itself to bring valuable social, economic, political and educational resources for
the rural communities they serve.
This session will address the following key questions:
What social impacts are policy makers hoping to derive when they invest in public
•
access computing?
What is the scale and landscape of socially-oriented public access computing
•
programmes around the world?
What early evidence is there about social impacts in this area? Is the evidence good or
•
bad?
What questions should researchers explore to dig deeper in this area?
•
Panellists:
Chris Coward, Director of the University of Washington Center for Internet Studies/Lecturer
at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
Ananya Raihan (tbc), Executive Director, D.Net (Development Research Network)
Teresa Peters (tbc), Gates Foundation Library Program
Rodrigo Garrido (tbc), Instituto de Informatica Educativa, Universidad de la Frontera, Chile
Moderator:
Mark Surman, Former Director, telecentre.org
14:00 to 15:30 EP9: Emerging People Session
Creating a New Strategy for Gender in the Information Society: Empowering Women in
Parallel Session 3
ICT
The International Taskforce on Women and ICT (ITF) help ICT4D stakeholders understand
“what’s in it for me” in supporting a policy of gender inclusion and how gender initiatives can
be tweaked to achieve an increased likelihood of short and long term success. Participants
are invited to provide inputs in becoming part of the solution, informing the panel of their
issues and creating an international dialogue that can continue through the conference and
beyond.
This session will address the following key questions:
What drives innovation and creativity in emerging high tech cities?
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What draws investment in local companies? What draws global companies?
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Who wins and who loses? Is high tech growth good for everyone in these cities?
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Does the high tech economy make these cities more sustainable and livable?
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Panellists:
Nancy Pascall, Gender Policy Coordinator, Information Society and Media Directorate
General, European Commission, Belgium
Gloria Bonder, Chair, UNESCO Women, Science and Technology in Latin America,
Argentina
Kio Chung Kim, Executive Director, APEC Women’s e-Biz Center, Asian Pacific Women’s
Information Network Center (APWINC), Korea
Moderator:
Claudia Morrell, Secretariat Chair, International Taskforce on Women and ICT
14:00 to 15:30 SS4: Special Cross-Cutting Session on Policy (tbc)
Parallel Session 4
A joint session by GKP and the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development
(GAID)
Panellists:
TBA
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27. Day 2: Wednesday 12 Dec
Time Activity / Session
Moderator:
TBA
14:00 to 15:30 EM8: Emerging Markets Session
Social Outsourcing and Fair Trade in IT
Parallel Session 5
There is an ever-growing market for IT outsourcing. But how can we use this for
developmental purposes? This session points the way by promoting experiences of quot;social
outsourcingquot; of IT. It will draw on both local examples and global examples to identify
benefits for clients that combine corporate social responsibility and cost savings, and benefits
for social enterprise suppliers. These benefits not only add to improving livelihoods but carry
the potential to break gender and urban biases associated with quot;normalquot; IT outsourcing. This
session also introduced the concept of “Social Outsourcing” which is a new market-driven
phenomenon to deliver a quot;triple-winquot; for economy, responsibility, and development.
This session will address the following key questions:
What is social outsourcing of IT?
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How can social outsourcing benefit corporate clients?
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How can social outsourcing benefit development communities?
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What can we all do to promote social outsourcing?
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Panellists:
Simon Healy, CEO, OrphanIT
Souphalak Souksavath, Digital Divide Data, Laos
Saloni Malhotra, Team Leader, DesiCrew Solutions
Moderator :
Richard Heeks, Coordinator, Development Informatics Group, University of Manchester, UK
14:00 to 15:30 EP10: Emerging People Session
Empowering Grassroots Women for Good Governance through Community Media
Parallel Session 6
This session seeks to raise awareness on women’s participation in good governance through
Community Radio (CR), by promoting knowledge sharing on ICT4D from the grassroots on
issues such as poverty reduction, water management, and education. Panellists bring input
from the 7th World Social Forum, held in Nairobi, Kenya, January 2007 and demonstrate how
women have been able to contribute towards the achievement of the millennium development
goals (MDGs) hence, substantiating women’s participation and inclusion as key factors in the
development of truly democratic information societies.
This session will address the following key questions:
How are new technologies facilitating women’s participation in setting public agenda and
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how does CR become useful in promoting women’s participation in good governance?
How does CR enhance inclusion and participation of women’s role as citizens in their
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communities and make their voices heard?
How do community media make a difference in highlighting women’s contribution to the
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achievement of the millennium development goals? How can stakeholders increase
scale of impact?
What policies make community media and local ICT applications more effective in
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developing women’s social and political participation?
Panellists:
Bianca Miglioretto, Programme Officer, ISIS Manila, Philippines
Doris Dery, Producer AMARC WIN, Radio Progres Ghana
Argentina Olivas, Vice President WIN LAC, Mujeres en Conexion, Nicaragua
Tamara Aqrabwe, Producer AMARC WIN MENA, WIN, Jordan
Moderator:
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, Senior Programme Associate, International Women’s Tribune
Centre
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