Plenary sessions1 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 | 11:00-12:30 | PLENARY SESSION 1: OPEN INNOVATION/OPEN GOVERNMENT Chair: Ms. Dorothy Gordon, Director General, Advanced Information Technology Institute (AITI), The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre
Speakers: - Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary, Science and Technology, Government of India
- Mr. Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India
Dr. Hun-Young Kwon, Professor, Kwang-Woon University, Korea Mr. Ravi Saxena, Addl. Chief Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of Gujarat, India | 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 | 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 | 16:00-17:30 | PLENARY SESSION 4: POLICYMAKERS’ PANEL Chair: Mr. J Satyanarayana, Secretary, Department of Electronics 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
| 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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