Sunday, March 23, 2008

17:00

Participants assemble in Pune at Blue Diamond Hotel and leave for Baramati

(Buses will be arranged to transport all participants)

19:30

Hotel Check-In

20:00

Reception and Dinner (Welcome) at Hotel City Inn, Baramati

Mr. Sharad Kulkarni, Chairman, Governing Council, VIIT

Mr. Sadanand Sule, Member, Governing Council, VIIT

Monday, March 24, 2008

9:00 am

Opening Remarks

Mr. Sharad Kulkarni, Chairman, Governing Council, VIIT

9:30 am

Inaugural address

Sh. Sharad Pawar, Hon’ble Union Minister of Agriculture & Consumer  Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Key Note Address:

Sh. Subas Pani, Secretary , Planning Commission, Govt. of India

Sh. Jainder Singh, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India

John Davies, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group & General Manager, Intel World Ahead Program, Intel Corporation

R. Sivakumar, Managing Director, Sales and Marketing, South Asia, Intel

10.30 am

Tea Break

10:45 am

Successful models of Digital communities (Pilot to scale)

What is needed to scale to create maximum impact?

·      Challenges and impediments

·      Examples of communities that implemented innovative usage models across   education,  healthcare, citizen services and farming communities

·      Recommendations

Moderator:

Sh. M Moni, Dy. Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC)

Speakers

Mr. Hemantha Kumar Pamarthy, CEO, Hand in Hand Micro Finance Limited

Dr. Arjun Kalyanpur, CEO Tele Radiology Solutions, Bangalore

Dr. Sumanth Raman, Advisor (Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice), TCS

Dr.Shunmugam, Chief Economist, MCX

Dr. Ananya Rahan, Executive Director, D.Net. Bangladesh

12.15 am

Scaling ICT Implementations – role of development agencies and Govt.
Perspectives on what is needed for scale

Moderator

Mr. Osama Manzar, Founder Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation

Speakers

Mr.Kevin Allan Smith, Scientific Advisor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Ms.Ashish Garg, Country Programme Coordinator - India,Global e Schools and Communities Initiative

Mr. Darrell Owen, International Information and Communications Technology (ICT) consultant, Owen & Owen

Dr.(Ms.) Safurah Jafar, Dy. Director, Ministry of Health, Govt. of Malaysia

Mr.Ravi Gupta, Director,CSDMS

13.45 

Lunch Break  

14.30         

Measuring economic benefits of ICT for communities ( Presentation by IDC)

15.00        

Measuring economic benefits of ICT on communities
(panel discussion with q&a)

·      Recommendations to evolve a model on the criteria 

·      Development of metrics

·      Building viable business models

Moderator

Mr.Raphael Phang, Director, Government Insights Asia/Pacific,  IDC, Singapore

Speakers

Mrs. Aruna Sundararajan, Chief Executive Officer  (Community Service Centers), IL&FS

Mr. Robert B. Kozma, Ph.D., International Consultant, Technology in Service of Developing Countries, San Francisco

Mr. Amit Mehra, Managing Director, Reuters Market Light

Mr. Reshan Devapura, Chief Operating Officer, Information and Communication Technology Agency of Srilanka

16.30

Tea Break

16.45          

Last Mile implementation challenges for scale: Alternatives, options & examples from developing nations

Moderator

Mr. Darrell Owen, International Information and Communications Technology (ICT) consultant, Owen & Owen

Speakers

Ms.Dimple Verma, Director -IT, Ministry  of Agriculture, Govt.of India

Mr. Yahel Ben-David, Founder and CTO,  AirJaldi

Mr. Allen Hammond, Vice President for Innovation and Special Projects, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C

Mr. Prasad Dixit, CEO & Vice President, rest of Maharashtra, Reliance Retail Ltd 

Col. R. S. Perhar, Chief Operating Officer,Tulip IT Services Limited

Mr. Leighton Phillips, Manager, Asia – Pacific, World Ahead Program,  Intel Asia Pacific

20.00

Cultural Program & Dinner