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| Opening Statement by |
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H.E. Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, UAE (Arabic)
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| GAID Chairman Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh |
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| Statements by United Nations
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Mr. Sha Zukang,
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (delivered by Ms. Haiyan
Qian, Director of the Division for Public Administration and Development
Management, UNDESA)
Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra,
Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser for Africa, High Representative for
the Least Developed Countries (delivered by Mr. Patrick Hayford, Director of
the Office of the Special Adviser)
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| Introduction to Forum
(key-note address): ICT have
great potential for advancing development -but why have we not achieved more?
What is missing? How do we fill this gap and move decisively from advocacy to
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H.E. Sheikha Lubna Bint
Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister for Foreign Trade, UAE
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs,
Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium
Development Goals (recorded video statement) |
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| PLENARY DISCUSSION: Reality
Check – Information and Communication Technologies for Development: what is
holding us back? |
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Moderator: Sarbuland
Khan Senior Advisor to GAID Chairman
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| Graciela
Chichilnisky Professor, Columbia University (USA) |
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| Stephen
Dukker Chairman and CEO, NComputing (USA) |
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| Evelyn
Oputu Managing Director, Bank of Industry (Nigeria) |
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| Drupad
Mathur Director, S.P. Jain Center of Management (UAE)
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| Allam Ahmed
Department of Municipal Affairs (UAE) |
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Ali
AlMashat Chairman, SRCSAT (France)
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| Presentation
of the MDG eNabler: H.E. Ivo Ivanovski, Minister
of Information Society, Macedonia |
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| PLENARY
DISCUSSION. MDG eNabler: A Call for Action – Share and Collaborate to Reach the
MDGs |
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| Moderator:
Ivo Ivanovski Minister of Information Society (Macedonia)
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| Jim Poisant
Secretary-General, World Information Technology and Services Alliance (USA) |
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| Elham
Ibrahim Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union |
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| Mohamed
Al-Qaed CEO, eGovernment Authority (Bahrain) |
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| Sarah
McCue, Founder and President, Blumail |
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| Linamara
Battistella Secretary, State of Sao Paulo (Brazil) |
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| George King
CEO, Global Capacity (USA) |
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Closing Remarks
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| Remarks by
Mr. Al Mansoori, ADSIC |
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Closing Remark by GAID Chairman
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| SOLUTIONS
SALONS |
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| Salon 1:
ICT for
Poverty Alleviation and Hunger, Lead:
FAO
ICT for Health, Lead: WHO
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 2:
ICT for
Persons with Disabilities, Lead: G3ICT
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 3:
A Startup
Strategy for Developing Countries to Harness Cloud Computing Lead : Ncomputing
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 4:
Reliance on ICT in governance: how much is too
much?
Lead: Sebastian Muah, Liberia
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 5:
ICT for
Financing Development and the MDGs
Lead:
Barbara Samuels, Global Clearinghouse for Development Finance
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 6:
ICT for Gender
Equality
Lead:
Gloria Bonder, FLASCO (Argentina)
ICT for
Development and Youth
Lead:
Mohammed Fathy, eLeaders
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 7:
ICT for
Sustainable Development/Climate Change
Lead:
Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University
ICT for
Disaster Relief/Post-Conflict Zones
Lead: ICT4Peace Foundation
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 8:
Demonstration
of the Computer-aided Strategic Planner
Prof. Amjad
Umar
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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| Salon 9:
ICT for
Education
Lead: John
Davies, Intel and Janis Karklins, UNESCO
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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Salon 10:
ICT for
Entrepreneurship
Lead: ATHGO International
Conclusion / Short
report-back presentations from the Session (Dec 6)
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| Short
report-back presentations from the Solution Salons |
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