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            Launch Seminar - Latin America and Caribbean Regional Network of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development
February 4 - 5, 2008
San Salvador , El Salvador 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

          4 February

        OPENING SESSION

          8.30 – 9:00         Registration

          9:00 – 9:45          Welcoming statements: Sigfredo Figueroa: Executive Director of the e-País Programme, Government of El Salvador

  Representatives of ECLAC / IADB / IDRC-ICA / Italian Government  

  Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator, UN DESA GAID: Regional Networks and Activities

         9:45 – 10:00        Coffee break

        10:00 – 11:30      Panel 1: Regional Issues relating to National ICT Policies and Strategies for Achieving the MDGs

Panel moderator/organizer:       

Hernán Galperín: DIRSI (Regional Dialogue on the Information Society)

Panelists:          

Martin Hilbert: ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)

Roxana Barrantes: DIRSI and the Institute of Peruvian Studies

Amy Mahan: Lirne.net (Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies)

Pablo Accuosto: ITEM (Third World Institute) and APC (Association for Progressive Communications)

      11.30 – 1.00          Discussion of National ICT policies and eLAC goals

        1:00 – 3:00          Networking break and lunch

        3:00 – 4:30          Panel 2: Technology for the Poor: ICT innovation for poverty eradication.

Are there ICT innovations that are truly making a difference in education, health and youth employment?

Panel Organizer: IDRC-ICA (The International Development Research Centre – Institute for Connectivity in the Americas)  

Moderator: Nancy Gertrudiz Salvador, Directora e-Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Mexico

Panelists:

Elena García: Latin American Network of Educational Portals (RELPE)

Patrick Attié: École Supérieure d'Infotronique d'Haïti (ESIH)

Saadia Sánchez: Sistema Económico Latinoamericano y del Caribe (SELA)

Alicia Quintana: Punto J Project against AIDS

       4:30 – 4:45          Coffee break

        4:45- 6:15           Discussion re: technology for the poor and eLAC goals and closing

        8:00                    Reception

      5 February

        9:15 – 10:45        Panel 3: How to develop e-government application in order to enhance citizens' participation and promoting accountability, transparency and efficiency in governance processes

Panel organizers/moderators:

Migual Porrúa: RedGEALC (Network of e-Government Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean), OAS (Organization of American States); and Hernán Moreno: ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)

Panelists:

Gloria Cañas: Colombian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism

Nazaré Lopez Bretas: Ministry of Planning and Management, Government of Brazil

Rafael Fuentes: CAF (Andean Development Corporation)

Ramon Peñagaricano: ICT4ALL, Basque Government

       10:45 – 11:00      Coffee break

       11.00-12.30         Discussion on enhancing citizens’ participation in e-government & eLAC

      12:30 – 2:00         Lunch

       2:00 – 3:30          Panel 4: Multi-stakeholder frameworks for developing effective policies and partnerships for mainstreaming ICT.

Panel Organizer: UN DESA GAID       

Moderator:

Daniel Stauffacher: Chairman, ICT for Peace Foundation.

Panelists:

Matías Rodriguez: AHCIET (Hispano-American Association of Centres of Telecommunications Research and Enterprises)

Johan Haeger: Communication for All Programme, Ericsson

Cornelio Hopmann: e-Nicaragua, and Development Gateway Foundation

Irene Hardy de Gómez: AME Programme, Cisneros Foundation

       3:30 – 3:45          Coffee break

       3:45 – 5.15         Discussion of frameworks for developing ICT partnerships under eLAC

     CLOSING SESSION

     5:15 - 5:45             Chair: Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator of UN DESA GAID

Presentation of the outcomes of the meeting

                                   UN DESA GAID/ECLAC/IDRC-ICA

      5:45 - 6.00            Closing remarks and final observations

6:00 – 6:30       Press conference

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