IST-Africa 2006 Conference & Exhibition

03 - 05 May 2006, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa

Programme

IST-Africa 2006 Agenda

Updated: 2006-04-28 20:03:06

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Day 1: 03 May 2006

08:00

Registration & Coffee

09:00

09:00	Opening Plenary 1a
	Chair: Phil Mjwara, Director-General, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa

11:30

Coffee Break

12:00

12:00	Opening Plenary 2a
	Chair: Phil Mjwara, Director-General, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa

13:00

Lunch

14:00

14:00	Session 3a: eBusiness 1: Case Studies
	Chair: Kgomotso Moahi, University of Botswana, Botswana

14:00	Session 3b: eGovernment 1: Planning Issues
	Chair: Harold Wesso, Meraka eSkills Institute, South Africa

14:00	Session 3c: eLearning & ICT Skills in Schools
	Chair: Marco Marsella, European Commission, Luxembourg

14:00	Workshop 3d: Challenges and Opportunites for African-European IST Partnerships in FP7
	Chair: Daan du Toit, Deputy Director-General: International Cooperation and Resources, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

16:00	Session 4a: eBusiness 2: Tourism/Cultural Heritage
	Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC / IST-Africa Institute, Ireland

16:00	Session 4b: eGovernment 2: Service Provision
	Chair: Salomão Manhiça, ICT Policy Implementation Technical Unit (UTICT), Mozambique

16:00

Tutorial 4c: eLearning 2: From Vision to Reality in Northern Ireland: Empowering Schools for eLearning through Public/Private Cooperation

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16:00	Workshop 4d: eHealth 1: Medical Export
	Chair: Peter Laing, FIR at Aachen University of Technology, Germany Co-Chair: Tomaso Forzi, FIR at Aachen University of Technology, Germany

17:30

17:30

Tutorial 5a: eInfrastructures: EU-funded Projects & FP7

17:30

Tutorial 5b: eLearning 3: EU-funded Projects & FP7

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Day 2: 04 May 2006

09:00

09:00	Session 6a: eBusiness 3: Security
	Chair: Laurens Cloete, University of Pretoria, South Africa

09:00	Session 6b: eGovernment 4: Issues and Case Studies
	Chair: Richard Stevens, -, Italy

09:00	Session 6c: eLearning & ICT Skills in Higher Education
	Chair: Johannes Cronje, University of Pretoria, South Africa

09:00	Session 6d: eHealth 3: Applications & Services
	Chair: Kgomotso Moahi, University of Botswana, Botswana

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

11:00	Session 7a: eBusiness 4: Networked Organisations
	Chair: James Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

11:00	Session 7b: eGovernment 5: Case Studies
	Chair: Henry Alamango, COMNET-IT, Malta

11:00	Session 7c: eLearning 5: ICT Skills Issues
	Chair: Enock Mpenzwa, Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Tanzania

11:00	Workshop 7d: eHealth 4: ICT Healthcase Solutions in Africa
	Chair: Danny Naidoo, Microsoft, South Africa

12:30

Lunch

14:00

14:00	Session 8a: eBusiness 5: Mobility Issues
	Chair: Daniel Annerose, Manobi, Senegal

14:00	Session 8b: eGovernment 6: eDemocracy & eParticipation
	Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC / IST-Africa Institute, Ireland

14:00	Session 8c: eLearning 6: ICT Skills Case Studies
	Chair: Richard Stevens, -, Italy

14:00	Workshop 8d: eHealth 5: New Strategies in HIV/AIDS Prevention
	Chair: Pieter van der Bijl, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

16:00	Session 9a: eBusiness 6: Mobility Applications
	Chair: Thierry Devars, European Commission, Belgium

16:00	Workshop 9b: eGovernment 7: GUIDE - Development of an Identity Management Architecture for Europe
	Chair: Jacqueline Clitheroe, BT, United Kingdom

16:00	Session 9c: eLearning 7: Tools
	Chair: Matti Sinko, -, Ethiopia

16:00	Workshop 9d: Finland - South Africa Cooperation on Information Society: Women and the Information Society
	Chair: Anja-Riitta Ketokoski-Rexed, Department of Foreign Affairs, Finland

Day 3: 05 May 2006

09:00

09:00	Session 10a: eBusiness 7: Mobility & IPv6
	Chair: Kobus Roux, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa

09:00	Workshop 10b: eGovernment 8: e-Governance as an Inter-Sectoral Learning Challenge in a Changing World
	Chair: Gianluca Misuraca, EPFL, Switzerland

09:00	Session 10c: Impact of ICT - Theory and Practice
	Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC / IST-Africa Institute, Ireland

09:00	Session 10d: ICT to Support Rural Communities
	Chair: Karel Charvat, WirelessInfo, Czech Republic

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

11:00	Workshop 11a: GRID Computing
	Chair: Martin Antony Walker, Hewlett Packard, Switzerland

11:00	Workshop 11b: eGovernment 9: eGovernment Challenges in Africa
	Chair: Romi Barjaktarevic, DPSA, South Africa

11:00	Workshop 11c: Mobile ICT and Adaptive Computing Innovation for Rural Areas and NGOs
	Chair: Johannes Cronje, University of Pretoria, South Africa

11:00	Session 11d: ICT for Agriculture
	Chair: Kevin Painting, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) , Netherlands

12:30

Lunch

13:00

13:00	Closing Plenary 12a
	Chair: Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission, Belgium

Disclaimer: This is the Advance Programme, which is subject to change. The Final Programme will be published in March, following receipt of all final papers.

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