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Agenda for IFAD's Roundtable on Six years of bridging the rural digital divide

Date: 11 December 2003
Time: 9.30 to 12.30
Venue: Room Q at GENEVA-PALEXPO, Exhibition and Conference Centre

Opening remarks: Phrang Roy, Assistant President, IFAD

Keynote address: What can ICTs do for the rural poor?
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, communication for development expert and Managing Director of the Communication for Social Change Consortium

• IFAD’s experience with the Internet-based Rural Poverty Knowledgebase and the regional networks: FIDAMERICA, FIDAFRIQUE and ENRAP
  Presenters:
  Rodney Cooke, Director, Technical Advisory Division, IFAD
  Djiby Diop, Portfolio Manager, United Nations Office for Project Services,
  representing FIDAFRIQUE
  Germán Escobar, Vice-President, International Farming Systems Research
  Methodology Network, representing FIDAMERICA
  Renald Lafond, Team Leader, PAN Networking Program and Shalini Kala, Coordinator, ENRAP, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

• The role of ICTs in rural development in Africa
  Presenter: Carl Greenidge, Director, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, (CTA), ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement, The Netherlands

• Role of ICTs in supporting socio-economic development in Asia and the Pacific
  Presenter: Chin Saik Yoon, Chief Editor of the Digital Review of Asia
  Pacific and Publisher and Managing Director of Southbound

• Influencing policy on information and communication for development
  Presenter: Anton Mangstl, Director, Library and Documentation Systems
  Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• DFID’s approach to information and communication for development
  Presenter: Dylan Winder, Rural Livelihoods Adviser, Information and Communication for Development Team, Information Division, United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)

• Role of the private sector in building local capacity to harness potential of ICTs both in terms of technology and creating content
  Presenter: Michael Furminger, CISCO Education Specialist, CISCO Systems

• Open discussion (11.00 to 12.30)

For further information:

Roxanna Samii, Web Manager, Communication Division, IFAD
r.samii@ifad.org
+39 3355412804

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