Programme - WITFOR 2005 Botswana

Tuesday 30 August 2005

Registration

Registration at Grand Palm Hotel

Welcome Reception
(informal) at Grand Palm Hotel

Welcome Remarks & Information Sharing:
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Botswana, Member WITFOR steering Committee, Marianne Nganunu

Director, Department of Information Technology, Botswana, Member WITFOR Steering Committee, Alicia Ramaribana

Programme

Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 - Day 1


0800 h-0945 h	Opening Ceremony

Chairperson: Honourable Pelonomi Venson, Minister for Communications, Science & Technology of the Republic of Botswana

0800 h – 0810 h	Welcome Remarks by Chairperson

0810 h – 0830 h	Opening Address by His Excellency, Mr Festus Gontebanye Mogae, President of the Republic of Botswana

0830 h – 0850 h	Guest Speaker: The Right Honourable Nahas Angula, Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia

0850 h – 0900 h	Greetings from European Commission, read by HE Mr Thomas Feige, Acting Head of EC Delegation, Gaborone

0900 h – 0920 h	Announcement of winners of the national WITFOR Education Competition and presentation of certificates and prizes by Honorable Jacob Nkate, Minister of Education of the Republic of Botswana

0920 h – 0930 h	Remarks by Professor Dipak Khakhar, Chairperson of WITFOR 2005 and representing the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), International Federation for Information Processing


0930 h - 1015 h	Networking break


1030h-1200h	First Plenary

Chairperson: Honourable Thomas M Thabane, Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Lesotho

1030 h – 1055 h	Invited keynote speaker: Prof. Chrisanthi Avgerou, London School Economics, UK, Chairperson IFIP Technical Committee 9, “Mobilising ICT for Development: the significance of culture and politics”

1055 h – 1120 h	Invited keynote speaker: Dr Yuri Misnikov, UNDP, Slovakia, Title: "What and whose e-Government we want?“

1120 h – 1140 h	Best Practice Country Experiences: Hon Mr Palusalue Faapo II, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Samoa

1140 h – 1200 h	Best Practice Country Experiences: Mr Zixue Zhou, Director-General, Ministry of Information Industry, China


1200 h – 1400 h	Lunch


1400 h – 1530 h	Commissions Thematic Meetings I Best Practice Case Studies (8 parallel sessions, see separate programme)


1530 h – 1600 h	Networking break


1600 h – 1730 h	Commissions Thematic Meetings II Commission Group Discussions (8 parallel sessions, see separate programme)

Thursday 1 Sept 2005 - Day 2


0800 h – 1000 h	Second Plenary

Chairperson: Honourable Dr. Tarek Mohamed Kamel Mahmoud, Minister for Communication and Information Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Speakers: Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of Commonwealth of Learning, Title: “ICTs in Education: Can Digital Dividend replace Digital Divide?” Mr Jacques Babot, European Commission - DG INFSO, Brussels, Learning from the e-Europe Initiative Directorate General Information Society New Working Environments Unit Prof Dewald Roode, Chairperson, Programme Committee, WITFOR 2005 “Discussion on the WITFOR project proposals” Plenary discussion


1000 h - 1030 h	Networking break


1030 h – 1200 h	Industry Session

Chairperson: Honourable Boyce Sebetela, Member of Parliament, Botswana

Speakers: Microsoft - Mr Emre Berkin, Chairman, Middle East & Africa, Turkey TCI – Mr G D Gaiha, Chairman & Managing Director, India, “What TCIL can do for Accelerated Development in Africa” Ericsson – Mr Thomas Sonesson, Vice President, Ericsson South Africa, Communication for All Oracle – Mr Desi Lopez Fafie, Managing Director African Operations, Ghana, “Harnessing ICT for Africa's Development”

1030 h – 1200 h	Ministers' Round Tables *(parallel session, by invitation only)*

Chairperson: The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Namibia, Mr Nahas Angula Themes around cross-cutting issues, policy, capacity building, resources,

Moderators:	Mr Moses Lekaukau, CEO, Botswana Telecommunications Authority, Botswana Mrs Alicia Ramaribana, Director, Department of Information Technology, Botswana


1200 h – 1400 h	Lunch

1400 h – 1530 h	Third Plenary

Chairperson: Mr Motlhatlhedi Motlhatlhedi, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Botswana

1400 h – 1520 h	Open discussions on the Gaborone Declaration

	Discussants: Prof Dewald Roode, Chairperson, Programme Committee, WITFOR 2005 Prof Dipak Khakhar, Chairperson, WITFOR 2005 Ms Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, Ghana

1520 h – 1530 h	UNAIDS Launch of CRIS


1530 h – 1600 h	Networking break


1600 h – 1730 h	Commissions Thematic Meetings III Commission Group Discussions (8 parallel sessions, see separate programme)

1900 h – 2030 h	Get together/ Cultural Evening (Mass Media Complex), open to all delegates

Friday 2 Sept 2005 - Day 3


0800 h – 1000 h	Fourth Plenary

Panel discussion on potential cooperation

Chairperson: Honourable Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, Minister for Telecommunications, Republic of South Africa

Discussants: Her Excellency Annika Jagander, Ambassador of Sweden , Gaborone Honourable Yemi Arokadare, Chairman, House Committee on Communications, Federal House of Representatives, Nigeria Dr Ilapavuluri Subbarao, Principal Secretary, Health, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, Networking and collaboration Dr Islam K M Baharul, UN-Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia Mr Emre Berkin, Microsoft, Chairman, Middle East & Africa Mr Moses Lekaukau, CEO, Botswana Telecommunications Authority, Botswana (until recently Chairman of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation) Dr Klaus Brunnstein, President of International Federation of Information Processing, IFIP Contributions to United Nations World Summits


1000 h - 1030 h	Networking break


1030 h – 1200 h	Fifth Plenary

Chairperson: Honourable Pelonomi Venson, Minister for Communications, Science & Technology of the Republic of Botswana

1030 h -1050 h	Special Address - The Egypt Experience : Honourable Dr Tarek Mohamed Kamel Mahmoud, Minister for Communication and Information Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the ICT Sector as a Leading Model

1050 h - 1200 h	Adoption of Gaborone Declaration

	Presenters: Commission Co-Chairs

	Discussants: Prof Dewald Roode, Chairperson, Programme Committee, WITFOR 2005 Mr Motlhatlhedi Motlhatlhedi, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Botswana


1200 h – 1400 h	Lunch

1400 h – 1530 h	Sixth Plenary

Chairperson : Prof Dipak Khakhar, Chairperson WITFOR 2005

WITFOR and the UN Millenium Development Goals Ms Joy Phumaphi, Assistant Director General, Family and Community Heatlh, WHO, Geneva, THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

From WITFOR 2005 to WSIS II in Tunis Dr Klaus Brunnstein, President of International Federation of Information Processing, IFIP Contributions to United Nations World Summits Dr Nadia Hegazy, Member, e-Africa Commission, the Arab Republic of Egypt, from WITFOR to WSIS TUNIS

Arrangements for WITFOR 2007 Representative from Ethiopia, Brief Features of Ethiopia, ETC’s Multimedia Network

Official Closing: Participant to be identified


1530 h - 1600 h	Networking break