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The Draft Schedule*
Workshop:  NECTEC | NOLP
April 25, 2006
12.00 am - 6.00 pm Registration
 
Day 1,  April 26, 2006
8.00 am - 9.00 am Delegate Registration
9.00 am - 9.30 am Welcome Tea/Coffee
9.30 am - 10.30 am GRAND HALL 2

Inaugral Session

MP Narayanan, President, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS)
Suchai Charoenratanakul , Minister of ICT, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Royal Thai Government, Thailand
Chaturon Chaisang, Minister of Education, Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Thailand
10.30 am – 11.15 am Vision Session
  • R Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, India
  • Susanne Ornager, Advisor for Communications and Information in Asia and Pacific, UNESCO
11.15 am – 12.00 pm Exhibition and Networking Time
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Lunch
1.00 pm – 5.30 pm Exhibition and Networking Time
7.00 pm Onwards Dinner Reception
 
Day 2,  April 27,2006
8.00 am- 9.00 am Delegate Registration
9.00 am – 10.30 am EXECUTIVE HALL 5

Keynote Session (1)


Telecentres/Community Information Centres for Poverty Reduction and Preparing for a knowledge Economy - Susanne Ornager, UNESCO
10.30 am–11.00 am Tea/Coffee
11.00 am– 12.30pm Keynote Session (2)
Colloboration for Upscaling and Sustainability
Dr. Basheerhamad Shadrach, Telecentre.org and Mission 2007, India

Keynote Session (3)
Emerging Markets – An Opportunity for innovations
Jonathan Kushner, Microsoft
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm – 2.30 pm Keynote Session (4)

Enabling Policy Environments, Overcoming Access Constraints
Ashish Sanyal, Director, DIT, MoCIT, Government of India
2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Success Indicators and Case Stories
  1. C Ortega, CICC-NCC, Philippines
  2. Md. Shahid Uddin Akbar, Bangladesh
  3. Khairuddin Ab. Hamid, Malaysia
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Tea/Coffee
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm Networking Knowledge Fair– Informal Interactions Among Stakeholders and other Partners with a Focus on Funding and support opportunities for poverty alleviation and livelihoods opportunities

B. Shadrach, IDRC, Canada
UNDP –Support to Knowledge Centres, India
Nandita Chaudhri - CIC, India
UNESCO - CIC Programme

Open Sharing of Experiences
Facilitators: Jayalakshmi Chittoor and Md Shahid Uddin Akbar
6.00 pm onwards Tea/Coffee
 
Day 3,  April 28, 2006
8.00 am - 9.00 am Delegate Registration
9.00 am – 10.30 am ICT Awareness and Capacity Building
  1. Royal D Colle, Cornell University, USA
  2. Mahendranath Basugopaul, Mauritius
  3. Zulfikar Mochammad Rachman, UNDP, Indonesia
10.30 am–11.00 am Tea/Coffee Break
11.00 am– 12.30pm Technology options
  1. Harsha Wijayawardhana, Univ of Colombo, Sri Lanka
  2. AHM Sultanur Reza, Grameen Phone Ltd, Bangladesh
  3. UB Desai, IIT Mumbai, India
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch Break
1.30 pm – 3.30 pm The Community Context – Needs, Content and Knowledge Services
  1. Ganga Prasad GL, CDAC, India
  2. Muhammad Salman, Indonesia
  3. Manjari Kishore, National University of Singapore
  4. Pradeep Kumar Jena, Team Leader, UNDP, India
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Tea/Coffee
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Future Trends – Recommendations for Action

Basheerhamad Shadrach, Jonathan Kushner, Zulfikar Mochammad Rachman, Susanne Organger
Chat show format of panel and recommendations from the floor
5.30 – 6.30 pm GRAND HALL 2

Valedictory Session and Closing Remarks

e-Government in Asia - the Way Forward

M P Narayanan, President, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
R Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, India
Kraisorn Pornsutee, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT, Government of Thailand
6.30 pm Tea/Coffee
* The Schedule is tentative and subject to changes
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