Hi, here follows is tentatie summary of Side Events I have at hand.
Beside this, GKP is organizing "youth" which I could not find the program
in digital file yet. (Please send me if you have ---)
Note: Some Side Events are NOT Open, you need to contact the
organizer to participate.
thanks,
izumi
WSIS Tokyo Preparatory Conference Side Evnts Programs
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<< GENDER >>
Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in the Information
Society: An Asia-Pacific Persperctive"
A workshop on "Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in the Information
Society: An Asia-Pacific Persperctive" will be held on January 11 and 12,
2003 at the United Nations University in Tokyo.
The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for a multi-stakeholder
discussion on gender issues in the themes of the WSIS and to develop
recommendations to promote gender equality in the information socieity as
well as women's advancement through the use of ICT.
This event is being collaboratively initiated by a number of organizations
representing various stakeholders. These include the Asia Pacific Women's
Information Network Centre (APWINC), Association for Progressive
Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APCWNSP), UNESCO and
UNESCAP. Japan Women's Watch (JAWW) is the local partner and host.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND. For more information, please contact Hiroko
Hashimoto <hiroko-h@jumonji-u.ac.jp>.
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
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11 January, 2003
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8:30 - 09:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome, Objectives and Expected output of the Workshop
9:20 - 10:00 Briefing on the WSIS: Content, Themes and Process
10:30 - 11:30 Session 1 Enabling environment:
Integrating gender in ICT policies
Universal Access for women
11:30 - 12:30 Session 2 Economic empowerment:
Women and the ICT Industry
ICT and women'seconomic empowerment
1:30 - 2:30 Session 3 Social Empowerment:
Education and Capacity building
Women's Rights and Communication
3:00 - 5:00 Working groups along various themes to develop WSIS
recommendations
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12 January, 2003
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9:00 - 10:30 Presentation of WSIS Recommendations and Adoption of
Recommendations
Presentation and discussion of the outputs of the working groups
10:45 - 11:45 Gender in the WSIS: Strategies for Collaboration,
Challenges and Opportunities
11:45 - 12:00 Formal Closing of the Seminar
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< < Communication Rights > >
Toward rights to communicate
January 12, afternoon to evening.
Organizer: JCA-NET Co-organizer: JCAFE
This meeting challenges to discuss and analysis regarding negative effects
of information
society. Especially we pick up two main topics, one is regarding social
divide and digital
divide, another is regarding civil liberty and privacy in the Asian context.
We intend to treat these issues as human security based on communication rights.
Our event has three sessions. First session is regarding communication and
human security,
second session is regarding civil liberty issues and the final session is
film show.
Session 1
Keynote speech:
Kinhide Mushakoji (Professor of Chubu Univ. Former vice president of UNU)
*Communication circumstances of migrant workers in Japan: Kimiko Ogasawara
(National Netowrk in Solidarity with Migrant Workers)
*Communication rights of workers and the unemployed: Akinobu Itoh or
Makoto Kawazoe (Labor Net Nippon)
*Experiences of support movement for East Timor: Kiyokazu Koshida,
(Pacific Asia Resource Center)
*Experiences of Japan-Korean solidarity movements and possibility of
the Internet: Yukihiro Yasuda (Labor Net/JCA-NET)
*Public Access and media literacy: Tadahisa Hamada(JCAFE)
Session 2: Privacy and Civil liberty
*ID card and the Resident Registration Network: Bunmei Sato (writer)
*Gender identity and the Resident Registration Network: Izumi Yonezawa
*Violation of civil liberty by the Convention of Cyber Crime: Yukio
Yamashita (lawyer)
*Problems of Rating and filtering: Nobuo Sakiyama (CPSR/Japan)
*Communication surveillance after Sept.11: Toshi Ogura (JCA-NET)
Session 3
Video show: "Rip It Up", documentary of Korean movement against ID card.
Short speech by Ryuta Itagaki
Following topics are expected to be discussed;
*English domination and exclusion from decision making
*Experiences of support movement for people in North Korea.
*Data gathering and privacy by private company
*Technology and politics of the Internet
*Intellectual property rights and communication rights
*The Internet in social movements
*The Internet and freedom of press
*The Internet is really open to Asia?and more.
Contact person: Toshi Ogura, ogr@nsknet.or.jp Phone: 070-5553-5495
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< < Asian and Pacific Islands States >>
Sunday, 12th January 2003, commencing at 0900 h
The Board Room, Institute of Advanced Studies,
United Nations University,
an extraordinary opportunity for government, private sector and civil society
representatives of Island States in the Asian and Pacific regions
- to share their experiences in the use of information communication technology
to produce development dividends and
- to exchange views on ways to promote the full and effective participation of
small states in WSIS processes.
There are limited number of seats available.
Please contact:
Ms Beris Gwynne, FDC (berisgwynne@fdc.org.au); or
Ms Rieko Hayakawa, SPINF (hayakawa@spf.or.jp)
Major Sponsors:
PROGRAM
0800 Ë0845 Registration
0845 - 0900 Welcome
0900 Ë0930 Demonstration of Satellite Link
(courtesy PEACESAT/SPINF)
0930 Ë1000 Key Note Address
1000 Ë1030 Morning Tea
1030 Ë1130 Regional and National¡¡
Perspectives
1130 Ë1230 Connecting Communties
1230 Ë1400 Lunch (hosted by SPINF)
1400 Ë1500 Development Partners Dialogue
1500 Ë1530 Afternoon Tea
1530 - 1630 Pacific Priorities for WSIS
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Organized by World Bank:
Empowering the Poor through Rural ICT Centers: what works and what is
sustainable?
Sunday, January 12, 2003, 1:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AGENDA (DRAFT)
Session I. 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
E-Development and Rural Information Access
Chair: Dorothy Gordon, Independent Consultant
Q&A 2:15 - 2: 30 p.m.
"E-Development and a Case in Sri Lanka"
Nagy K. Hanna, Senior Advisor, Informatics Advisory Services, World Bank
"A Private Sector's Vision"
Mr. Satoshi Fujita, Executive Vice President, NTT Communications
"Japan's Strategy for Enhancing Information Access in Developing Countries"
Kazuo Sunaga, Director, Research and Programming Division, Economic
Cooperation Bureau (ECB), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Session II. 2:30 - 3: 45 p.m.
Can ICT Empower the Poor? Creating Opportunities and Meeting Needs
Chair: Kayoko Shibata, Knowledge Management Analyst, Gender and Development
Group, World Bank
Q&A 3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
"ICTs for Human Security in Local Development"
Mani Devyani, Senior Researcher, UNCRD, Nagoya, Japan
Chetan Sharma, Founder and CEO, Datamation Foundation, New Delhi, India
A representative from a women's NGO in Asia (not confirmed)
"Connecting Schools in Asia through ICT (title of the presentation not
confirmed)"
Michael Trucano, ICT for Education Program, World Bank Institute
Session III. 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Financial and Operational Sustainability and Scaling up of Rural
Information Centers
Chair: A Representative from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (not
confirmed)
"Satellite Internet Project for Afghan High Schools (title of the
presentation not confirmed)"
A Representative from the Basic Human Needs Association (BHN), Tokyo
"Do Women Managers Make a Difference?: Lessons Learned from the Thailand
Canada Telecenter Project"
Warren Wong, Partner, Hickling Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"Success and Failures of Rural Information Centers and Need for
Local/Global Networking"
Motoo Kusakabe, Vice President, Resource Mobilization and Cofinancing, World Bank
(title of the presentation not confirmed)
Yasuhiko Kawasumi, Rapporteur of ITU-D SG2 for Rural Communications
Q&A 5:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Recommendation for Creating Knowledge-based Development and its Network
5:15 - 5:25 p.m.
Nagy K. Hanna, Senior Advisor, Informatics Advisory Services, World Bank
Closing 5:30 p.m.
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