17 April 2008

UN Sessions and Videoconference

 

 

Thursday April 17, room 5

New York, UN Headquarters

9.15-10.00  Opening Session

Milan

New York

Other Seats

3.30 local time

 

Giulio Ballio, Dean, Politecnico di Milano

 

Letizia Moratti, Mayor of Milan*

 

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Alberto Rovetta, Professor of Robotics, Politecnico di Milano

 

9.30 am Welcome

Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator, UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development

 

Guido Bertucci, Director, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, UNDESA

 

Marcello Spatafora, Ambassador of Italy to the United Nations in New York

 

Francis Lorenzo, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic  to the United Nations in New York

 

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Pierpaolo Saporito OCCAM President and Founder of the Infopoverty World Conference

 

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John E. Steffens Infopoverty Institute, University of Oklahoma

 

 

Santo Domingo (Dominica Republic)

H.E Leonel Fernandez Reyna, President  of the Dominican Republic

10.00 am Plenary Session 1

New Models for Sustainable Development

Chaired by: Philip Cross, Caribbean Representative, ITU

Milan

New York

Other Seats

4.00 p.m.

 

Maurizio Decina, President, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni

Giovanni Bozzetti, President, Infrastrutture Lombarde Spa

 

 

Isabelle Mauro, Head external affairs, GSM Association;

James R. Fruchterman, President & CEO, Benetech;

Jerry Glenn, Millennium Project Director IGC

 

Baghdad (UN office)

Staffan De Mistura, Personal Representative of the UN Secretary General to Iraq

 

11-13.00 Plenary Session 2 ( Part I )

Best Practices: from Pilot Syndrome to Scale Up ( 4 Round Table)

Chaired by : Ambassador Zina Andrianarivelo, Permanent Representative of Madagascar to the United Nations in New York

11.00-12.00  Villages and Communities

Milan

New York

Other Seats

5.00 p.m

Lorenzo Guerini, Mayor, City of Lodi

Alfredo Mariotti, Secretary General, Federmacchine

Stefano Zara,  Key Account and Special Projects Manager, Skylogic

 

 

 

Gerardo Zepeda Bermudez, occam; Bjarke Nielsen ,Djursland Int’l Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband; Adel El Zaim, IDRC, Tellcentres; Laura Lederer, Senior Director for Global Projects and Executive Director, U.S. Department of State; Mack McCarter, Founder and Coordinator Community Renewal International

 

Beijing (China)

Luo Li, President, Project 100 Cities

Liu Wenkui, Deputy Executive Director, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation

12.00-13.00  Corporate Executives Panel: Implementing Sustainable Action in Developing Countries

Milan

New York

Other Seats

6.00 p.m.

Lorenzo Cagnoni, President, Rimini Fiera Spa

Federico Vicentini, CleanWings Project, Politecnico di Milano

 

 

Stephen Hayes, President, Corporate Council on Africa;

J. Douglas Reid-Green, BASF Corporation; Brian Atkinson, COO, Devon Health Services, Inc.

 

1.00-3.00 pm LUNCH

3.00-6.00 Plenary Session 2 ( Part II )

3.00-4.30 pm  New Entrepreneurship & New Outcomes

Milan

New York

Other Seats

 

Moderated by : Francis Lorenzo, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic  to the United Nations in New York

 

Hugo Marias, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, NEC, Argentina; Joe Shirley Jr, President, Navajo Nation; George Lodge, Professor, Harvard Business School; Michael Tetelman, AED, Global Development Commons; Tom Bradich, IBM; Corey Griffin, Director, International Development Aid

 

 

 

Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)

Carlos Munoz,  Funglobe Foundation

Jesus Feliz, Mayor Santo Domingo Norte

Felix Bautista, President of Bautista F.

Oscar Melgen,  Indotel

 

4.30 pm GAID’s Role in Scaling Up

 

Moderated by: Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator, UN G@AID

 

Representatives from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs– DPADM;

Representatives from GAID Flagship Partnership Initiatives and Communities of Expertise;

 

Art Reilly, Senior Director for Strategic Communications, Cisco System

Armen Orujyan, Director, ATHGO International;

Steven Gale, Principal Advisor for Strategic Communications, USAID

Paul G. West, Director, Knowledge Management COL;

Scott Dulchavsky, NASA AIUM Project Coordinator

 Luca Neri, President, Winfocus;

Mack McCarter, Founder and Coordinator Community Renewal International

 

 

 

Tel.: +39 0286991392

Fax: +39 028057573

E-mail: occam@occam.org

For information :

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