IST-Africa 2009 Conference & Exhibition

06 - 08 May 2009, Uganda

Programme

IST-Africa 2009 Agenda

Updated: 2009-04-26 13:20:24

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Day 1: 06 May 2009

08:00

Registration

09:00

09:00	Opening Plenary 1a
	Official Opening & Welcome Address His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda, Uganda ICT Initiatives in Uganda Honourable Aggrey Awori, Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Uganda Opening Remarks Lenka Ptáčková Melicharová, Deputy Minister of Interior (EU Affairs), Czech Republic European Commissioner for Development's Welcome Address Ambassador Vincent De Visscher, Head of the European Commission's Delegation, Uganda Opening Remarks Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission, Belgium AUC Keynote Address Vera Brenda Ngosi, Director, HRST, African Union Commission, Ethiopia AMCOST Consolidated Plan of Action Honourable Sally Kosgey, Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Kenya

09:50

Coffee Break

10:15

10:15	Plenary Session 2a: High-level Round Table on the Implementation of the Africa-EU Partnership on Science, Information Society and Space
	Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC / IST-Africa Institute, Ireland

12:15

Lunch

14:00

14:00	Workshop 3a: ICT Initiatives in Uganda
	Chair: Patrick Masambu, Uganda Communications Commission, Uganda

14:00	Session 3b: eGovernment - Models, Measurement and Implementation Challenges
	Chair: Hon. Edward Baliddawa, Parliament of Uganda, Uganda

14:00	Workshop 3c: ICT for Disaster Management in Africa
	Chair: Bernard Stevenot, SPACEBEL, Belgium

14:00	Workshop 3d: UNESCO-HP Brain Gain Project: Pilot Solutions
	Chair: Martin Antony Walker, Martin Antony Walker SARL, France

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

16:00	Workshop 4a: Digital World Forum
	Chair: Stephane Boyera, Web Foundation, France

16:00	Workshop 4b: Use of ICT in African Parliaments
	Chair: Vasilis Koulolias, Gov2U, Greece

16:00	Workshop 4c: ICT for Disaster Management in Africa II
	Chair: Bernard Stevenot, SPACEBEL, Belgium

16:00	Workshop 4d: UNESCO-HP Brain Gain Project: Pilot Solutions II
	Chair: Martin Antony Walker, Martin Antony Walker SARL, France

16:00	Workshop 4e: eSkills - Policy Approaches & Path to South African eSkills Summit
	Chair: Wallace Taylor, TISI - The Information Society Institute, South Africa

17:30

End of Parallel Sessions

18:00

Reception

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