Thanks Al for coordinating this.
My info follows:
I will arrive at Geneva at 19:05 Dec 7, LX 609/B from Paris CDG
HOTEL CRISTAL
4 RUE PRADIER
GENEVA 1201
Phone: 22-7313400 Fax: 22-7317078
My mobile: (+41) 078-741-5804
As for my participation:
Dec 8
PM 2:30-4:00
Conference on Volunteering and ICTs
Sectoral Panel on Strategies for Tunisia 2005 and Beyond
[I will be on the panel]
Evening:
Dinner with the above Volunteering panel members proposed
Asia Caucus meeting?
Global ICT Governance group dinner?
Dec 9
09 December 2003
Room A, Geneva Palexpo
ITU High Level Dialogue
The WSIS global challenge: making the information society a reality for all
PM 2:30 -4:00 Session III
SHAPING THE FUTURE WITH ICTs
Speakers:
Head of State: H.E. Mr. Mohamed Hosni MUBARAK, President, Arab Republic of Egypt
1. Mr. Houlin ZHAO, Director, TSB (ITU)
2. Dr. RAMANI, HEWLETT- PACKARD India Lab (India)
3. Mr. STERN Daniel, Project Director, U-Connect (Uganda)
4. Ms Deborah HURLEY, Pole Star - Human Right in the Information Society (Canada)
5. Mr. Peter BUECKING, President, SITA (to be confirmed)
I will moderate this session.
Dec 10
PM 13:30-16:30
Ubiquitous information society workshop
by Ministry of Public Management, Home affairs Posts and Telecoms, Japan
Palexpo Mont-Blanc
I will help the logistical side, and this event could be fun. Some gift
will be given.
Dec 11 PLEASE COME!! Don't miss this!!
17:00-20:00 Cultural and social impacts of mobile technologies
Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM)-Japan
Palexpo Room S
A "Visionary Panel" discussing new social interactions, social groups,
activities
and communities emerging through mobile technologies.
Adam and I will coordinate and moderate this panel.
Session 1: Social Impacts to Individuals and Groups
Introducing new mobile services in Italy
Vittorio Bertola, Chair, ICANN At Large Advisory Committee
Social impacts of "Moblog", mobile-weblog, a new phenomena
Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, Interaction Design Institute
Ivrea, Italy
Riding the Mobile Omnibus
Lara Srivastava, Policy Analyst, Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU, Geneva
Moderator: Izumi Aizu, Asia Network Research and GLOCOM, Tokyo
Session 2: Potential for Development
Wi-Fi deployment in rural Indonesia
Onno W. Purbo, Consultant, Indonesia
Wireless infrastructures in developing areas
Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
OKN/Vodafone "Mobile Content to Change Lives Project"
Wainaina Mungai, Open Knowledge Network - East Africa
eGovernment and SMS in the Philippines
Dr. Emmanuel Lallana, Philippines
Viva Rio project and WIFI: impact of communications in low income
communities in Brazil
Bernardo Sorj, professor of Sociology at the Federal University in Rio de
Janeiro Brazil, and Ben Petrazzini, Senior Associate with the Institute for
Connectivity in the Americas (ICA)
Moderator: TBC
At 16:48 03/12/01, you wrote:
>Hi Guys (and Girls :-)
>
>As Angela said, there is no guarantee that all of us can get together at the
>same time in Geneva. But we can sure try...maybe one date before the summit,
>or at least a drink after! :-)
>
>By way of an initial date and time, I am suggesting a dinner together
>(around 8 pm at Dec. 8)--easy to remember: "Asia Caucus 888" ( We will
>ATE--8-- on december 8 at 8 pm...:-)
>
>By this mail, I am again appealing to everyone who is going, to do some sort
>of roll call on this list, and please include (your inclusive dates in
>GEneva, as well as your contact info--hotel, mobile, etc.). I will compile
>them (or will try to) until before I leave on Dec. 6th for Geneva.
>
>As Adam suggests, I will try to find out what the arrangements are at
>Palexpo, but I am not optimistic that the Secretariat answers mails! There
>have been a lot of requests for info in the past 2 weeks and not enough
>responses...either they are so busy or...(I hate to think of the
>alternative! :-)
>
>So I guess it is best for Angela, who will be in Geneva/Palexpo soon
>(earlier than most of us), to just find out what we have in terms of rooms
>for meetings, when she arrives there. (Angela is I think travelling today)
>
>I have no problems helping convene the caucus, but nothing like a personal
>ocular inspection, and a personal tap on the shoulder to whoever is
>organizing these things there. I am pretty sure as well that if Angela is at
>PrepCom3B, she will also run into Louise Lassonde and her CSD staff...
>
>Thanks
>Al
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: RunningToddler <amkt@apcwomen.org>
>To: John Fung <john.fung@hkcss.org.hk>; Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
>Cc: <alalegre@fma.ph>
>Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:06 PM
>Subject: Re: [communication 1037] Re: names to be submitted for opening
>ceremony passes
>
>
> > Sorry guys, Al will have to take a lead on this. I cannot guarantee that
> > I'll be able to meet up.
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > Angela
> >