Download General Programme Schedule General Programme Schedule for WITFOR 20121 Day Zero: Mon, 16th April 2012 18:30 onwards | Registration and distribution of conference badges |
Day One: Tue, 17th April, 2012 09:30-10:30 | INAUGURAL PLENARY Lighting of the Lamp • Welcome Address by Mr J Satyanarayana, Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India • Address by Mr. Janis Karklins, Assistant Director General, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO •Special Address by Mr Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications and IT, Government of India
• Inaugural Address by Mr Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and Information Technology & Human Resource Development, Government of India • Vote of Thanks by Mr. Leon Strous, President, IFIP • Inauguration of Exhibition by Mr Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and IT &HRD, Government of India | 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | 11:00-12:30 | PLENARY SESSION 1: OPEN INNOVATION/OPEN GOVERNMENT Chair: Ms. Dorothy Gordon, Director General, Advanced Information technology Institute, the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre, Ghana Speakers: - Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary, Science & Technology, Government of India
Dr. Hun-Young Kwon, Professor, Kwang-Woon University, Korea Mr. Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India Mr. Ravi Saxena, Addl. Chief Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of Gujarat, India | PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 | 12:30-13:45 | | Theme: Is there hunger for Information Technology in Agriculture? “From Green Revolution to IT Revolution in Agriculture” Chair: Mrs Rita Teaotia, Additional Secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India Speakers: Ms. Aurelia Bondari, Executive Director, National AGROinform Federation, Moldova Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India - Mr. Vikas Nath, Associate Director, Future of the United Nations Project, Switzerland
| 12:30-13:45 | | Theme: Vocational Training and Skill Upgradation Chair: Prof. S.S. Mantha, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), India Speakers: Mr. Dilip Chenoy, CEO & MD, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), India Mr. John Yates, CEO, Manipal City & Guilds, India
Prof. K.K. Aggarwal, Chancellor, Lingaya’s University, India - Mr. Lokesh Mehra, Director, Education Advocacy, Microsoft, India
| 12:30-13:45 | | Theme: Can technology address governance issues? Chair: Mr. Ajay Sawhney, President & CEO, National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India Speakers: - Mr. Leon Strous, President, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), The Netherlands
- Sridharan Sankaran, Senior Director-Engineering, EMC
- Mr. Niraj Prakash, Director, Public Sector & Marketing, Microsoft, India
Mr. Prakash Kumar, Director, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco | 12:30-13:45 | | Theme: Institutionalising the use of ICT for better healthcare Chair: Mr. K.N. Desiraju, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India Speakers: Prof. Jørn Braa, University of Oslo, Norway Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Partner, Taurus Glocal Consulting, India Mr. Pankaj Kumar Bansal, Additional Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Tamil nadu, India - Mr. B. Selva Kumar, Mission Director, NRHM, Government of Karnataka, India
| 13:45-14:30 | LUNCH | PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 | 14:30-16:00 | | Theme: Can ICT benefit the small farmers? “Putting Farmers First” Chair: Mr. Vikas Nath, Associate Director, The Future of the United Nations Project, Switzerland Speakers: Dr. Harsha de Silva, Member of Parliament, Consultant Lead Economist, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka Ms. Aurelia Bondari, Executive Director, National AGROinform Federation, Moldova Dr. T.P. Trivedi, Assistant Director General, Indian Council for Agricultural Research, India Dr. Raj Saravanan, Associate Professor, Central Agricultural University, Meghalaya, India | 14:30-16:00 | | Theme: E-Content – innovative and sustainable digitisation of content to enhance classroom learning Chair: Prof. Alain Senteni, Dean, School of e-Education, Hamadan bin Mohammed e-University, UAE Speakers: Dr. Dimity Dornan, Managing Director & Founder, Hear and Say, Australia Dr. Paul T. Nleya, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Technology, The University of Botswana, Botswana Dr. Ritva Engestrom, Centre for Activity Theory & Developmental Research, University of Helsinki, Finland - Mr. K. Anvar Sadath, Executive Director, IT@ School Project, Government of Kerala, India
| 14:30-16:00 | | Theme: E-Authentication - Issues and challenges: State data banks and issues of privacy Chair: Dr. B.K. Gairola, Director General, National Informatics Centre, India Speakers: Dr. Edgar A. Whitley, Reader in Information Systems, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK Mr. R.S. Sharma, D-G & Mission Director, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), India Dr. Ivar Tallo, Member, Executive Board, e-Governance Academy Foundation, Estonia Mr. Sanjay Jaju, Secretary IT, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India - Mr. Sudeep Das , Lead Solutions Architect, India & SAARC, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
| 14:30-16:00 | | Theme: Simplifying Health Information Architecture Management Chair: Prof. Jørn Braa, University of Oslo, Norway Speakers: Prof. Hiroshi Takeda, Dean & Professor Master Course of Safety Management in Healthcare services, JIKEI Institute, Osaka, Japan Mr. Rakesh Kanwar, Mission Director, NRHM, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh, India Mr. Ashok Chandavarkar, Healthcare Industry Manager, Asia-Pacific, Intel* | 16:00-16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | 16:30-18:00 | PLENARY SESSION 2: ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT Chair: Mr. Mr. J Satyanarayana, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of India Speakers: Prof. Geoff Walsham, Professor of Management Studies, Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK Dr. Nagy Hanna, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy on Emerging Technologies: Senior Advisor & Lead Strategist, World Bank, USA | 18:00-19:00 | Special Presentations 'Open Government Platform' - Mrs. Neeta Verma, Senior Technical Director, National Informatics Centre, India 'Global Cloud Computing Scorecard' - Mr. Chris Hopfensperger, Technology Policy Council, Business Software Alliance | 19:00-onwards | Conference Dinner | Day Two: Wed, 18 April, 2012 09:30-11:00 | PLENARY SESSION 3: NETWORKS - CONNECTING PEOPLE Chair: Mr. R Chandrashekhar, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Government of India Speakers: Mr. David Hume, Executive Director, Citizen Engagement, Government of British Columbia, Canada Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Rediff.com, India Mr. Kiran Karnik, Former President, National Association of Software and Services Companies, India Ms. Caitlin Wiesen, Country Director, United Nations Development Programme, India | 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 | 11:30-13:00 | | Theme: Will the Pilots ever fly? “Scaling up and Commercialising of ICT – Agricultural Models” Chair: Mr. Vikas Nath, Associate Director, The Future of the United Nations Project, Switzerland Speakers: Mr. Neil Mylet, Founder & CEO, LoadOut Technologies, USA Mr. Srinivas Garudachar, Director, Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd, India Mr. P.R. Ganapathy, Senior Adviser – Incubation, Villgro, India | 11:30-13:00 | | Theme: Lessons from Research Chair: Prof. Ana Pont, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Papers, Speakers: 'De(coding) the poor: Towards a transparent and accountable NREGA information infrastructure', by Sumitra Nair and Nimmi Rangaswamy, India 'Understanding Broadband Adoption in South African Households', by Lisa Seymour, South Africa - ‘Re-framing ICT4D: Status quo and problem areas’, by Kartikeya Bajpai, India
'A case study on the business correspondent model in India’: Ishita Ghosh and Kartikeya Bajpai India | 11:30-13:00 | | Theme: Capacity Building - Building internal capacities, with special attention to project management, administrative reform and cyber-security Chair: Mr. Padamvir Singh, Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), India Speakers: Dr. Samantha Liscio, Corporate Chief Strategist, Ontario Public Service, Government of Ontario, Canada Dr. Nagy Hanna, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy on Emerging Technologies: Senior Advisor & Lead Strategist, World Bank, USA Mr. Ravi Saxena, Addl. Chief Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of Gujarat, India Mr. Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary, Defence, Government of India Dr. Rajiv Sharma, Mission Director, National Mission Clean Ganga (NMCG), National Ganga River Basin Authority, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India* | 11:30-13:00 | | Theme: Using Information and Technology to improve Health Outcomes & Transforming Service Delivery Channels Chair: Prof. Sundeep Sahay, University of Oslo, Norway Speakers: Dr. A.K. Azad, Additional Director General (Planning & Development) & Director, Management Information System (MIS), Government of Bangladesh - Dr. John Lewis, Vice President, Health Information Systems Programme (HISP), India
- Dr. Pramod Kumar Meherda, Mission Director, NRHM, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Odisha, India
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH | PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 | 14:00-15:30 | | Theme: Is the future mobile? “NextGen Farming: Future of Technology in Agriculture” Chair: Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India Speakers: Mr. Olaf Hammelburg, Pachamama Coffee Cooperative (Latin America), Connecting Worlds, Netherlands Mr. Jawahar Kanjilal, Global Head, Nokia Life Tools, Singapore Ms. Deepa Bachu, Director, Emerging Market Innovation, Intuit, India | 14:00-15:30 | | Theme: Open Learning and Distance Education Chair: Mr. N.K. Sinha, Additional Secretary, Ministry of HRD, Government of India Speakers: Dr. S.S. Jena, Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), India Dr. Santosh Panda, Professor of Distance Education STRIDE, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India Mr. Krishan Khanna, Chairman, i2k Solutions, India | 14:00-15:30 | | Theme: Mobile Technologies-with a focus on ‘financial inclusion’ Chair: Mr. D K Mittal, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Government of India Speakers: Mr. Bong-soo Keum, Executive Director, National Information Society Agency (NIA), Republic of Korea Mr. Sriram Jagannathan, CEO, mCommerce, Bharti Airtel, India Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Director Projects, Department of IT, Government of India | 14:00-15:30 | | Theme: ICT for Human Resource Management in Health Chair: Prof. Sundeep Sahay, University of Oslo, Norway Speakers: Prof. Kayode Odusote, CEO, Foundation for Sustainable Health Development, Nigeria Mr. Anil Swarup, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government Of India Dr. Carl Leitner, Open Source Developer, CapacityPlus Project at IntraHealth International, USA - Dr. Indranoshee Das, ACS, OSD, NRHM, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Assam, India
| 15:30-16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | 16:00-17:30 | PLENARY SESSION 4: POLICYMAKERS’ PANEL Chair: Mr. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India Speakers: Ms. Margarita Rojas, Director, ICT Planning, Government of Paraguay Mr. Bong-soo Keum, Executive Director, National Information Society Agency (NIA), Republic of Korea - Dr. Ivar Tallo, Member, Executive Board, e-Governance Academy Foundation, Estonia
| 17:30-18:00 | Business Presentations | 18:00-18:50 | VALEDICTORY SESSION Closing WITFOR 2012 – WITFOR 2013 announcement • Conference Summary by Prof. Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor, London School of Economics, and Co-Chair, International Programme Committee, WITFOR 2012 • Address and hand over for WITFOR 2013 by Shri Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and Information Technology & Human Resource Development, Government of India • Address and takeover of WITFOR 2013 by Minister Hugo Royg Aranda, Executive Secretary, Ministry of Technical Planning for Economic and Social Development, Republic of Paraguay • Vote of Thanks by Ms. Rita Teaotia, Additional Secretary, Department of IT, Government of India |
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