Strategy Council Agenda, Monterrey Minimize

Strategy Council Meeting

2 September 2009
Club Industriales
Monterrey, Mexico

DRAFT AGENDA

8.30 – 09.00 REGISTRATION
9.00 – 10.00 OPENING SESSION:
CHAIR: Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman, UNDESA-GAID
9.00 – 9.09 Welcome by the Chairman of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development
9.09 – 9.18 Statement by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under Secretary-General, DESA
9.18 – 9.27 Address by Mr. Natividad Gonzalez Paras, Governor of the State of Nuevo Leon
9:27 – 9:36 Statement by Ms. Haiyan Qian, Director, DPADM, introducing the UN Agenda on e-governance and its role in the current crisis to support the MDGs
9.36– 9.45 Report on progress by Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development
9.45 – 10.00 Break
10.00 – 11.30

SOLUTIONS SALONS

The Strategy Council will break out into four “Solutions Salons” which are designed to move GAID beyond the traditional seminar or panel format to a hands-on, participatory community development and collective action. Everyone in attendance will have the opportunity to share their experiences and lessons from working on the priority themes, and elicit partnerships and support from the group to address current needs.

This will be an opportunity to engage Strategy Council, Steering Committee members and advisors, regional stakeholder networks and champions, and enlist their thoughts and constituencies, in shaping GAID's agenda and priorities for the coming year.
The goal is to develop a GAID Agenda for Action with clear deliverables and results for 2009-2010.

Four parallel interactive Solution Salons will be grouped by focus areas that emerged from online consultations:

(1) Financial and Economic Crisis and Poverty Eradication

Chair: Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under Secretary-General & High Representative, UN-OHRLLS
Moderator: Mr. Roberto Villarreal, Chief, Socio-Economic Governance and Management Branch, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, UNDESA

(2)Health and Education

Health Chair: Mr. Ulf Pehrsson, Vice President, Government & Industry Relations, Ericsson
Health Moderator: Ms.Seema Hafeez, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Division for Public Administration and Development Management (TBC)

Education Chair: Mr. Bruce Sewell, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Intel Corporation
Education Moderator: Mr. Jyrki Pulkkinen, CEO, GeSCI

(3) Climate Change

Chair: Mr. Andrew J McKeon, Principal, carbonRational - Reasoning Towards a Sustainable Economy (TBC)
Moderator: Mr. Armen Orujyan, Chairman, Athgo International

(4) Gender

Chair: H.E. Mr. Markku Kauppinen, Ambassador, Trade & Development, Department. for Development Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland
Moderator: Ms. Gloria Bonder, Regional UNESCO Chair on Women, Science & Technology in Latin America, Chair, International Taskforce on Women & ICT – ITF.

11.30 - 12.30

Network Development and Outreach

Key questions around membership engagement and recruitment will be considered in the Session on “Network Development and Outreach”, including "what are the expectations of our various constituencies". It will be a chance to contribute to GAID's development and communication flows, and advance our vision of truly being a global network of networks.

Chair: Mr. Kamran Elahian, Co-Chair, UNDESA-GAID
Co-Chair: Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator, UNDESA-GAID
Moderator: Mr. Darian Heyman Rodriguez, Commissioner, San Francisco Department of the Environment, Member, UNDESA-GAID High-level Panel of Advisors

12.30 – 13.30 LUNCHEON
13.30 – 15.20

STRATEGY SESSION: REPORT BACK AND CONCLUSIONS

Moderators of the Solutions Salons will report back key highlights of the meeting and present a summary and report of the day. Finally, the Chair of UNDESA-GAID will summarize action points and next steps, and bring the meeting to a close.

15:20 – 15:30

CLOSING STATEMENT:

Mr. Sha Zukang, Under Secretary-General, DESA
Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman, UNDESA-GAID