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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Hi,<BR>
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FWIW, it looks like Philippe inadvertently sent out an old version of the program. There current version is below.<BR>
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Charles Geiger is at charles.geiger@unctad.org if anyone is looking for a pass.<BR>
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Bill<BR>
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT <BR>
UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT <BR>
OBSERVATORY FOR CULTURAL AND AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATION<BR>
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Panel discussion on<BR>
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“Information Society: New Perspectives for Post-WSIS Scenarios?”<BR>
5 July 2007, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland<BR>
Conference Room XXVI<BR>
3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.<BR>
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DRAFT AGENDA<BR>
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3:00 – 6:00 <BR>
Welcome by Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development <BR>
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Opening Remarks<BR>
Mr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of ITU<BR>
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Moderator<BR>
Mr. Philippe Mottaz, World Radio Geneva<BR>
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Lead discussant<BR>
Mr. Alain Clerc, Executive Secretary, Digital Solidarity Fund<BR>
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Panelists<BR>
Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and CEO, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAGO)<BR>
Mr. John Gage, Chief Researcher and Vice-President of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems <BR>
Ambassador Janis Karklins, Vice-Chair, United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development <BR>
Mr. Carlo Ottaviani, President, ST Microelectronics Foundation<BR>
Mr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD <BR>
Mr. Gerolf Weigel, Head of ICT4D Division, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation<BR>
Mr. Pierpaolo Saporito, President, OCCAM and Infopoverty Programme<BR>
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Respondent<BR>
Mr. William J. Drake, Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance, Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland<BR>
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