Tuesday, March 25, 2008

9:00 am        

Innovations / essential functionalities and need analysis for affordability
and scale - need analysis

Moderator

Mr. Pradeep Joseph, Emerging Platforms Group, Intel

Speakers

Mr. Raj Singh Khaira, Vice President Business Development, FINO

Mr. R Guru Moorthy,  Executive Director, Karishma Health Solutions

Dr. Aruna Vedala, Bigtec

Ms. Maya Prabhu, Product Manager, Rural Segment, GE Healthcare

Mr. Raghuram, BASIX

10: 30 am         

Tea Break

10:45 am    

Broadband Policy for education, healthcare and shared access –to effectively scale the and accelerate the economic benefits for communities

Moderator:

Mr. David N. Townsend, Telecommunications Economic and Policy Consultant, DNTA, United States

Speakers:

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

Mr. C.S. Rao, Chairman, Telecom & Convergence Committee, ASSOCHAM

Mr. Vinnie Mehta, Executive Director, MAIT

Mr. P.K.  Saha, Dy. Director General (data Services ) Department of Telecommunications, Government of India

Mr. Ashish Saboo, President, Association of Public ICT Tools Access Provider

Mr.  S.M. Sharma , Deputy Wireless Advisor  , Ministry of Communication and IT ,Government of India 

13.00

Lunch

14:00

Synchronizing Teacher training, curriculum development with technology infrastructure deployment to realize optimum benefits from ICT in education

·          Issues and recommendations for the right content framework

·          Internet usage

·          Teacher training

·          Implementation approach

·          Issues and recommendations for the right content framework

Moderator:

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

Speakers:

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

Mr.Subhash Kuntia, Joint Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India

Mr. Latif Nathani, General Manager, Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft ,India

Mr. Alok Bhargava, Executive Director, IL&FS Investment Managers Ltd

Dr,(Mrs). Vasudha Kamath, Joint Director, CIET, NCERT

Mr. Anshul Sonak, Education Manager, Intel India

15:30

Tea Break

15:45

Industry CSR, NGO & Govt. Collaboration in enabling ICT:

·          Successful examples;

·          How do we align the efforts

·          Recommendations

Moderator:

Ms.Yashree Gujar, Head –CSR, BILT

Speakers

Mr, Ian Correa, Head, Hope Foundation

Ms. Gouri, Aid India

Mr. Murthy Rayaprolu, Head – Global Delivery & Operations, Byraju Foundation

17.00  -18:00

Plenary & Valedictory

·          Tom Burns, Director World Ahead Program, Intel

·          Dr. S B Gogia, President Indian Association of Medical Informatics

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

·          Special Address on scaling digital communities by

Sh.T.R. Raghunandan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati  Raj, Govt. of India

19.30

Dinner

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

8:00 am

Breakfast & Departure