PROGRAM - TENTATIVE

INTERNET MEETING 2008

• 08.45 - REGISTRATION.
  
  
• 09.15– Inauguration with official authorities present.
  
  
• 09.30 – The convergence of services, the new challenges for ISPs.
  Speakers:
  • Edmundo Poggio - Telecom Argentina
  • Franco Cecchini – IPLAN
  • Gerardo Demarco – SERSAT
    
    
• 11.00 -------------------------- COFFEE BREAK

• 11.20 – ICANN - "Governance of Internet critical resources".
  Pablo Hinojosa.
  
  
• 11.50 - LACNIC - The coming deployment of IPv6 Internet addresses.
  Raúl Echeberría
  
  
• 12.20 – Verisign Inc. - Global evolution of the domain names market -
  Joseph Waldron

• 13.00 -------------------------------LUNCH

• 14.30 – E-COMMERCE "Opportunities and challenges for 'Online' Commerce in Latin America." Speakers: - Marcos Galperín, Mercado Libre - Francis Petty - DeRemate.com
  
  
• 15.30 – iMALLS – Innovating Telecenters (Social e-Commerce) Doug Carnes – iMalls Global
  
  
• 16.00 ------------------------- COFFEE BREAK

• 16.20 – Internet Content - "The user as generator of his own Content." Speakers: Google, YouTube, Second Life, Yahoo

• 18.00 ---------------------------END OF DAY 1
  
  

• 10.00 - Welcome Address – Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Executive Director GKP – Global Knowledge Partnership (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Parallel Session 1

• 10.20 – “YSEI: Startup and Change the World with Young Social Entrepreneurs” Presented by YSEI Secretariat/GKPS
  
• 10.35 – “Exploring YSEI Partnership for YSEI LAC” Open space for discussion to explore possibility of a “Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) for LAC and to identify Potential partners for the initiative.
  

Parallel Session 2

• 10.20 – “Climate change adaptation at Grassroots Level and the Role of ICT” Panellists:
  • María Eileen Delgadillo (Fundación Chasquinet)
  • Catalina Escobare (Makaia Foundation)
  • Pablo Canziani – CONICET
  • César Yammal – InfoDev/Banco Mundial
    
    
• 13.00 -------------------------------LUNCH

Parallel Session 3

• 11.45 – “Exploring Partnerships for Entrepreneurial Learning” Open space discussion to explore Entrepreneurial Learning Partnership initiatives and partners for LAC.
  

Parallel Session 4

• 11.45 - “Exploring Partnerships for Entrepreneurial Radio” Context Setter/Moderator: - Luis Pérez Prado (Subtel-Chile) Open space discussion to explore Entrepreneurial Radio Partnership initiatives and partners for Latin America.

• 13.00 -------------------------------LUNCH

• 14.45 – e-EDUCATION, “reducing the digital divide.” Panel debate: Fundación Chasquinet (Ecuador), Fundación Omar Dengo (Costa Rica), Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander Von Humboldt (Perú), Fundación Cisneros (Venezuela), ESPOL (Ecuador), FLACSO (Argentina), Fundación Evolución (Argentina)

• 16.00 ------------------------- COFFEE BREAK

• 16.20 – Panel on e-EDUCATION continues

• 18.00 ---------------------------END OF DAY 1

• 09.00 - “Federal Broadband deployment.” Panel Debate – CABASE, AACREA, FECOTEL, CFI, USUARIA

• 11.10 ------------------------- COFFEE BREAK
  

• 11.30 – GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE PARTNERSHIP (Malaysia) - "The role of GKP as an engine for ICT4D in underprivileged communities" - Rinalia Abdul Rahim

• 12.00 – FAO (UN): "ICT4D perspectives in rural areas." - Charlotte Masiello Riome
  
  
• 12.30 – Galileo Project, an opportunity for application developers – Pablo Recalt (Telespazio)

• 13.00 -------------------------- INTERVAL

• 14.30 - ISOC Argentina Chapter (Civil Society)
  
  
• 16.00 ------------------------- COFFEE BREAK
  
  
• 16.20 - ISOC Argentina Chapter (Civil Society), continued.
  
  
• 18.00 -----------------         END OF THE EVENT