Friday April 18

1.00 – 2.30 pm local time Italy     (7:00 a.m. NYC)

milan catholic university

aula magna

8.30 am Plenary session 3

A common target through converging policies

Chaired by: Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnership

Milan

New York

Other Seats

2.30 local time

NEW TECHNOLOGIES LINKED TO RENEWABLE ENERGIES: AN INSTRUMENT TO FIGHT POVERTY?

Moderated by: Maria Grazia Cavenaghi-Smith, Director, Information Office in Milan, European Parliament (EP)

Roberto Formigoni, Governor of Lombardy Region

Members of the European Parliament(MEPs)

Cristiana Muscardini, Vice President of the International Trade Committee,EP

Pier Antonio Panzeri, Vice President of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee,EP

Patrizia Toia, Member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee, EP

Other Speakers

Cristina Castelli, Director, Master in Emergency, Catholic University

Paolo Gatelli, Researcher, Research Centre on Technology, Innovation and Finance

Carlo Galimberti, Director, Research Centre and Studies on Psychology of Communications

Loredana Gatta, Responsible Project Harambee Gwassi (Kenya), Università degli Studi di Milano

Matt Bond, Chief of staff, millennium challenge Corporation

Mark Fleeton, CEO, Development Gateway Foundation

George Laudato, USAID, on the Development Commons Project

Liberato Bautista President C.O.N.G.O.

Najat Rochdi, Regional Coordinator for the Middle East, UNDP

Pietro Sicuro, Director, Institut de la Francophonie Numerique

10.45 Am

Address of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

 to the UN General Assembly

Bruxelles, European Commission

Lluis Riera Figueras, DG Development and Relations with ACP Countries

Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society

Parigi, UNESCO

Abdul W. Khan, Deputy Director General for Communication, UNESCO

Giuseppe Viriglio, Director for EU and Industrial Policies, ESA*

Inoussa Ousseini, President, CICT-UNESCO

12.30 am Session 4

final round table

chaired by: Pierpaolo Saporito OCCAM President and Founder of the Infopoverty World Conference

Philip Cross, Caribbean Representative, ITU

Zina Andrianarivelo, Permanent Representative of Madagascar to the United Nations in New York

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

Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnership

John E. Steffens, Infopoverty Institute, University of Oklahoma

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

FINAL DECLARATION

13.00 -15.00 Lunch

3.00-6.00 pm Follow Up Session

Interactive, focused dialogue and Implementing Action

chaired by:

John E. Steffens, Infopoverty Institute, University of Oklahoma

Collaborations, Commitments, and Concrete Steps

moderated by: Rick Warren, Author, The Purpose Driven Life

Dan B. Smith, Managing Director, Trestle Group Foundation

Steven Gale, Principal Advisor for Strategic Communications, USAID

Laura Lederer, Senior Director for Global Projects and Executive Director, U.S. Department of State

Lin Weigel, Director of Program Development, The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW)

Terri Hasdorff, Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

Mike O’Neal, President, Oklahoma Christian University

Joe Kitchens, Superintendent, Western Heights ISD, Oklahoma

Adele Smithers, President, Christopher D. Smithers Foundation, Inc.