[governance] CSTD D2

[Guru गुरु]

Day 2 of CSTD featured two half day panels on-

1. "Mobile Technology, Convergence and Social Networking Tools for
Development and Poverty Eradication" and
2."Delivering innovation in global public health"

in the form of "Follow-up to the World Summit on the Information
Society: Joint CSTD-ITU-GAID panel discussion"

The second panel was quite different from 'usual' panels on ICTD - most
of the panelists and presenters were public health professionals and the
moderator (Dr. Michael St. Louis, Chief Science Officer for Global
Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) set the tone for the
discussions, by explicitly asking that participants look at the issues
in public health and then see what role ICTs could play, instead of the
other way around (which is to look at the powers of ICTs to decide how
that could solve issues in health!), and the discussions including a
couple of good presentations from WHO (Dr. Najeeb Mohamed Al Shorbaji)
and Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

To read more about Day 2, visit my blog at http://www.is-watch.net/node/1089


regards
Guru

Guru गुरु wrote:
> 
> Day 1 featured presentation on WSIS progress and follow-ups, including 
> by the UNSG, select countries and international organizations ...
> 
> There was agreement from several quarters on Markus's assertion (he gave 
> an update on the IGF) that the IGF is an innovation in MSP, the Deputy 
> Secretary General of ITU mentioned that the IGF processes have been 
> useful learning for them.
> 
>  From a developing country perspective, there were comments on the need 
> for setting up national internet backbones and importance of local 
> content... and that the current downturn was an opportunity to put this 
> as a public infrastructure, accessible to all, rather than a threat.
> 
> The Brazilian delegate was happy that EC had found its place (even if 
> belated) at IGF ... and that he thought EC was more than 'cooperation 
> amongst participants' as an end in itself, but a method to enable global 
> public policy in this arena ....
> 
> In her address as a part of the opening ceremony, Anriette stressed on 
> the need to build internet broadband access and not believe that mobiles 
> alone would fulfill this need.
> 
> There are two 1/2 day panels tomorrow on WSIS follow-up...
> 
> regards
> Guru
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>> Participating in the CSTD in Geneva, Markus just presented the summary
>> of developments of the IGF and prospects of the future.
>>
> 

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