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 First Session - Opening Ceremony

 2nd Session - Existing Financial Mechanisms and Issues at Stake (Part One)

 3rd Session - Existing Financial Mechanisms and Issues at Stake (Part Two)

 4th Session - Financing backbone infrastructure (national, regional, international) and universal access to ICTs

 5th Session - Financing applications and content

 6th Session - Financing for capacity-building (skills, institutions, regulatory framework)

 7th Session - Other dimensions of financial mechanisms

 8th Session - Open discussion

 

 Draft Meeting Agenda

	Thursday, 8 October 2009
9:00 – 10:30 Room K	Opening Ceremony   Link to WSIS; Issues at stake; Overview of the main existing financial mechanisms; Expected outcome of the consultations   Ø  Dr Hamadoun Toure, ITU Secretary General       Ø  Mr. Petko Draganov, Deputy Secretary General of UNCTAD       Ø  H.E. Basem Rousan, Minister, Ministry of Information and     Communications Technology (MoICT), Hashemite Kingdom of     Jordan       Ø  H.E. Dr. Hoda Baraka, First Deputy to the Minister, Minister     of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt       Ø  Mr Montassar Ouaili, CEO, Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia      (ar)    Ø  H.E. Andrzej Sados, Minister, Permanent Mission of the     Republic of Poland to the United Nations Office and other     International Organizations in Geneva
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Room K	Existing Financial Mechanisms and Issues at Stake (Part One) Current financing mechanisms; How can existing mechanisms be enhanced?; Need for new mechanisms?; Role of various stakeholders (private/public; national/regional/international)   Address: Sami Al-Basheer Al Morshid, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau    Moderator: Dr. Yuri Grin, Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development bureau   Ø  Heather Thorne, Strategy and Business Operations Manager,     Grameen Foundation      A Framework for Sustainability in ICT for Development     Initiatives       Ø   Doyle Gallegos, Lead ICT Policy Specialist and Telecoms       Practice Leader at the World Bank Financing ICT for Development       Ø  Rafael Fuentes, ICT Agenda Coordinator, Analysis and     Programming Department, Corporacion Andina de Foment,         Caracas, Venezuela, CAF      Innovation in Infrastructures: A business proposal to benefit     us all       Ø  Mitchell Strauss, Special Advisor to the President, OPIC,     USA     OPIC’s capability, efficiency and effectiveness in promoting     ICT related projects         Ø Patrick Kalas, SDC, on behalf of Global Knowledge     Partnership (GKP) ØTomasz Janowski, United Nations University     Conversations on the World Financial and Economic Crisis -     Impact and Opportunities for ICT       Ø  Open floor for comments and other contributions   Ø  Oral contribution:     H.E. Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, Ambassador     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative,       Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United       Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva                                       Ø  Relevant written contributions   Ø  OECD/InfoDev     Draft Report from the Workshop on Policy Coherence in the     Application of Information and Communication Technologies     for Development     Background Paper on the Role of Competition in the Access     to ICTs
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Room B	Existing Financial Mechanisms and Issues at Stake (Part Two) Current financing mechanisms; How can existing mechanisms be enhanced?; Need for new mechanisms?; Role of various stakeholders (private/public; national/regional/international)   Moderator: Anne Miroux, Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD   Ø  Henry Chasia, Executive Deputy Chairperson, NEPAD e-     Africa Commission       Ø  Bashir Patel, Director of Programme and Business     Development, Commonwealth Telecommunications         Organisation (CTO)      Funding Schemes in Some of Key Member Countries       Ø  Yousef Nusseir, Chief of Information and Communication     Technologies Division, ESCWA      Financing the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes in the     ESCWA Region         Ø  Open floor for comments and other contributions   Ø  Relevant written contributions Ø  Towa Koh Michel, Coordonnateur National  ACSIS     Cameroun, Directeur Fondateur du C.F.T.I.      De la Gouvernance et de la Solidarite Internationale      (fr)     Ø  Rami Adel Abou Shadi, Administrative And Finance     Coordinator, Communication and Information Technology         Center (CITC) - Mansoura University, Egypt     ICT between financial and planning strategies in developing     countries
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Room B	Financing backbone infrastructure (national, regional, international) and universal access to ICTs Current financing mechanisms; How can existing mechanisms be enhanced?; Need for new mechanisms?; Role of various stakeholders (private/public; national/regional/international)   Moderator: Emamgholi Behdad, Chief of Projects and Initiatives Department, ITU   Ø  Moctar Yedaly, Head of Telecommunications and Posts     Division, African Union Commission (AUC)     The AU Reference Framework for  Harmonization of policies     and Regulations         Ø  Robindhra Mangtani, Senior Director, GSM Association     Universal access: Mobile voice, data, broadband  for all          Ø  Hasanul Haq Inu, Member if Parliament, Bangladesh         TheFinancing challenges for development of ICT: The case         of Digital Bangladesh        Ø  David Souter, on behalf of the Association for Progressive     Communications Regional Backbone Infrastructure & Broadband     Capacity / Universal Access Funds and Universal Service     Obligations        Ø  John N. Kariuki, Communications Technology Expert,     Ministry of Information and Communications, NAIROBI     Financial Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of ICT for     Development             Ø  Open floor for comments and other contributions   Ø  Relevant written contributions    SeaCom    The Seacom Story       Ø  Sola Afolabi, Director, Community Computer Centre, Office of     the Vice President, ECOWAS Commissin

	Friday, 9 October 2009
9:00 – 10:30 Room K	Financing applications and content Current financing mechanisms; How can existing mechanisms be enhanced?; Need for new mechanisms?; Role of various stakeholders (private/public; national/regional/international)   Moderator: Makane Faye, Senior Regional Advisor, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)   Ø  Randi Ramusack, United Nations Technology Officer,     Microsoft Corporation     Partners for technology access: Creative financing solutions     for ICT4D          Ø  Maui Sanford, President; Pacific Islands     Telecommunications Association (PITA).     Approaches to partnerships and consolidation; overcoming     the special issues of the small islands developing states       Ø  Laura Garcia Vitoria, Directrice scientifique de la Fondation     des Territoires de Demain, France     Pour un développement basé sur l’innovation: le Living Lab     des Territoires de Demain et l’invention de cadres et modèles     innovants pour l’application des TIC au développement.            (es)   (fr)   (fr)   Ø  Open floor for comments and other contributions   Ø  Relevant written contributions Ø  Francis F. Muguet, NET4D, Switzerland; The Global      Patronage     A worldwide inclusive financing mechanism for Digital     Works / Free Software Fund for Digital Solidarities (FSFDS)        FSFDS.org
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Room K	Financing for capacity-building (skills, institutions, regulatory framework) Current financing mechanisms; How can existing mechanisms be enhanced?; Need for new mechanisms?; Role of various stakeholders (private/public; national/regional/international)   Moderator: Cedric Wachholz, Coordinator for the World Summit on the Information Society, UNESCO   Ø  Makhtar Fall, Head, Regulatory and Market Environment     Division, ITU     Building capacity to address financial mechanisms Ø  Ilari Lindy, Advisor, Information Society for Development,     Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland     The role of bilateral donors in supporting capacity-building in     the area of ICT       Ø  Dr. Dong Ju Choi, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Women's     Information Network Center (APWINC), Sookmyung Women's      University, Korea     Financing for Capacity-building -Public-Private Partnership     (PPP) case of APWINC       Ø  Dr. Francois Ullmann, President of "Ingenieurs du Monde"     Pour la prise en considération des biens immatériels            (fr)   Ø  Open floor for comments and other contributions   Ø  Relevant written contributions Ø  Portugal, Ministry of Public Works, Transport and     Communications     Fostering Information Technology for all: State investment on     capacity building for younger generations and financial     mechanism and associated measures to stimulate investment     in NGN       Ø   Md Shahid Uddin Akbar, Chief Executive Officer,     Bangladesh     Institute of ICT in Development (BIID)     Creating a new Financing mechanism for Capacity Building     through facilitating establishment of Centre of Excellence at     country level to strengthen the building of capacity, skills and     institutions on ICT       Ø  International Taskforce for Women and ICTs (ITF),     Contribution
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Room K	Other dimensions of financial mechanisms Emerging challenges; New developments   Moderator: Jaroslaw Ponder, Strategy and Policy Coordinator, ITU   Ø  Alawia Alhamadabi, Head of Foreign Affairs, National     Information Center of Sudan     Sudan National Information Society Strategy       Ø  Valeria Jordan, Coordinator of the E-Digital Inclusion     Component of ICT Projects, from the Area of Innovation and     Innovation and ICT of the Division of Production, Productivity     and Management, ECLAC     Emerging challenges: the Latin America and the Caribbean     perspective       Ø  Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Secretary, Secretariat    of the Basel Convention    Financing ICT for Development - The Reverse Side of the Coin        Ø  Open floor for comments and other contributions   Ø  Relevant written contributions Ø  Dr Timothy Barker, DIYNGO     Searching for the Ghost in the Capitalist Machine: The      Utilisation of Financial Mechanisms to Fund Information     Communication Technologies for Development
15:30 – 17:00 Room K	Open discussion Main conclusions; Best practices; Next steps   Moderator: ITU, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNECA   Ø  David Townsend Ø  Swiss Administration (TBC) Ø  Open floor for comments, other contributions and conclusions
17:00 Room K	Closing ceremony   Ø  ITU, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNECA