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ESCAP's Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division (IDD) in cooperation with United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) organized the “Regional Workshop on Knowledge-hubs and Networks - Next Step” in Bangkok , Thailand from 10 to 11 December 2009. The Workshop was an activity of the ongoing United Nations Development Account Project entitled “Knowledge networks through ICT access points for disadvantaged communities”. The Workshop will review the outcomes of the previous activities and design future strategies for sustainable knowledge-hubs and networks for Asia and the Pacific including Central Asia . The Workshop was to assess the role of knowledge-hubs and networks in meeting the internationally agreed development goals including millennium development goals (MDGs) and goals and targets of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), among others. More specifically, the meeting attempted to assess the status of: (i) tangible benefits to rural communities due to knowledge sharing and networking; (ii) progress of the transformation from community access points to knowledge hubs and new services offered; (iii) role of regional networks in value added services to communities; (iv) involvement of the poor and disadvantaged groups (including women) in accessing benefits from knowledge hubs/ networks; (v) effective resource mobilization for sustainable knowledge hubs/networks; (vi) role private-public partnership and the community in sustainability of knowledge hubs/ networks; (vii) Challenges in the process of establishing knowledge hubs/ networks. The Workshop was attended by 32 representatives of various ICT access point stakeholders, including managers of various national ICT access points and networks, and government officers responsible for ICT access point issues in Asia and the Pacific and Central Asia Regions and the representatives of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
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Presentation Materials:
Background information and objectives of the workshop by Mr. Ram Tiwaree, IT Officer, Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division (IDD), ESCAP
Roles and functions of knowledge hubs and networks
Impact of knowledge hubs and knowledge networks on rural poor including women and disadvantage groups in improving livelihoods by Mr. Siddhartha Shankar, President (Business Development), Drishtee Foundation, India
Effectiveness of knowledge hubs in empowerment of rural poor: services, relevance and ownership in effective access to information by Mr. Guennadi Fedorov, Resource Person, ESCAP
Key factors and environment for successful establishment of knowledge hubs and networks by Ms . Kamolrat Intaratat , Director, The Research Center of Communication and Development Knowledge Management (CCDKM), Thailand
Telecentre - CSC movement in India in Madhya Pradesh Province by M r. Mukesh Hajela, Chief Executive Officer & Vice Chairman, Network for Information & Computer Technology, India
Partnerships in building knowledge networks
Partnerships and business plans: making knowledge hubs sustainable – good practices from national/regional/international experience by Mr. Basheerhamad Shadrach, Senior Program Officer – Asia, International Development Research Center (IDRC), India
Strengths and weaknesses of regional knowledge networks such as APTN on sharing knowledge and improving livelihoods of rural communities by Mr. J. K. Perera, Project Consultant, Nenasala Project, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), Sri Lanka and Ms. Dil Piyaratna, Head – Information Infrastructure, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), Sri Lanka
Prospects of regional knowledge networks, establishment and functioning of Eurasia tele-centre network by Mr. Mahmud Kurbonalievich Naimov , Deputy Regional Program Manager for Eurasia, Internet Access and Training Program (IATP), International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), Tajikistan
Challenges and specialized functions of knowledge networks
Capacity building to strengthen sustainability of knowledge networks, role of the state, international organization and donor community by Mr. Ananya Raihan, Executive Director, D. Net E and Secretary General , Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN), Bangladesh
Role of tele-centres/knowledge hubs in Disaster Risk Reduction – an example from national experience by Ms. Maria Teresa Magadia Camba, Director for Field Operations,
National Computer Center , Commission on Information & Communications Technology , Philippines
Challenges to knowledge sharing through tele-centre networks and knowledge hubs by Mr. Manohar Bhattarai, Vice Chairman, High Level Commission on Information Technology (HLCIT), Nepal
Conclusion and Recommendations
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