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The Expert Group Meeting on WSIS+5 and Emerging Issues in Asia and the Pacific was held from 18 to 19 November 2008 at the United Nations Conference Center (UNCC in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting was organized as a pre-session activity of the First Committee Session on ICT by the Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division (IDD) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
The main objective of this Expert Group Meeting (EGM) was to exchange knowledge and experiences among the participating experts at technical, institutional and policy levels.
The EGM was organized under the overall theme of WSIS+5 regional review and key and emerging trends in Asia and the Pacific. It highlighted key issues related to ICT development in the region in general and progress made on the implementation of the WSIS Plan of Action in particular. The EGM focused on the following areas:
1) WSIS+5 regional review
2) ICT capacity building
3) ICT and disaster risk reduction and
4) Emerging ICT issues, including food security and ICT access
Documents
Please see the documents below for more details regarding this event:
| Title |
Size (KB) |
| Annotated Agenda |
30 |
| Programme |
19 |
Meeting Findings and Recommendations
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290 |
Summary of the Presentations by Participants
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1500 |
Full Presentations from Participants
Overview of WSIS+5: report of the Secretariat
Speaker: ESCAP
Case of Sri Lanka, Moving with Continuity and Change
Speaker: Sri Lanka Delegation, headed by Prof. P. W. Epasinghe
India's challenges and successes in the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society action lines
Speaker: Mr. Shankar Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology, India
ICT for Development : The Role of UNCTAD
Speaker: Torbjorn Fredriksson, Science, Technology and ICT Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD
WSIS+5 action line C.7 ICT applications, e-Agriculture
Speaker: Michael Riggs, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
WSIS+5 action line C2: Information and Communication Infrastructure, by ITU
Speaker: Mr. Wisit Atipayakoon, International Telecommunication Union
Lao's challenges and successes in ICT capacity building
Speaker: Mr. Somlouay Kittignavong, Acting Director General, Department of IT, National Authority for Science and Technology, Lao PDR
Malaysia's challenges and successes in ICT capacity building
Speaker: Ms. Normala Sharom, Deputy Under Secretary, ICT Policy Division, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia
ICT champion stories and ICT project experiences from ADB
Speaker: Ms. Hyunjung Lee, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank
ICT capacity building: APCICT's approach
Speaker: Ms. Hyeun-Suk Rhee, Director APCICT
Towards Establishment of Disaster Management System in our region; Sentinel Asia Step-2.
Speaker: Mr. Shoji Matsubara, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
WINDS Experiments for the Asian-Pacific Region
Speaker: Mr. Toshio Higuchi, Satellite Applications and Promotion Center (SAPC), JAXA
National Center for Crisis Situations Management; Natural disasters in Russia
Speaker: Mr. Vladimir Uskov, Second Secretary, MFA of Russia
ICT for Disaster Risk reduction - A private sector perspective, by Microsoft.
Speaker: Mr. Jeff Paine, Asia Pacific Region Government Engagement Lead, Microsoft
ICT access: the case of Nepal
Speaker: Mr. Thapa, Joint-Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, Nepal
Pacific connectivity
Speaker: Mr. John Budden, PISF
Regional initiatives by the Republic of Korea
Speaker: Dr. Nam Sang Yirl, Communications & Trade Research Center, Korea Information Society Development Institute
The case of e-Sri Lanka
Speaker: Mr. Lalith Weerathunga, Secretary to the President, Presidential Secretariat, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
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Please note that this EGM was a pre-session to the Committee on Information and Communications Technology. Click here to access the Committee on Information and Communications Technology website and background papers. |
Professor P.W. Epasinghe, Acting Chairman and Advisor to His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka presents a publication on e-Sri Lanka to Mr. Zengpei Xuan, Director of ESCAP's Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division
News
Sri Lanka chairs ICT Committee of ESCAP. Asian Tribune, 2008-11-21
Region's IT divide still wide. Bangkok Post, 2008-11-21
Digital divide remains glaring in Asia despite mobile phone growth. abs-cbnNEWS.com, 2008-11-20
Digital divide remains glaring in Asia despite growth in mobile telephones , Asian Tribune, 2008-11-19
Malaysia Among Top Five With Internet Access In Asia Pacific. Bernama.com, 2008-11-19
UN-backed conference aims to close gaping ‘digital divide' in Asia-Pacific. UN News, 2008-11-18
Digital divide remains glaring in Asia despite growth in mobile telephones. ThaiPR.net, 2008-11-19
Sri Lanka chairs ICT Committee of ESCAP, Daily News, 2008-11-20
ESCAP concerns huge gap in internet access between rich and poor countries, Thaindian News, 2008-11-18
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