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| Day 1, 23 August 2006 |
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| 8.00 -9.00 am |
Delegates Registration And Welcome Tea |
| 9.30 -11.00 am |
Grand Inaugural vision session
Welcome Address by Dr. M P Narayanan, President, CSDMS
Introductory Remarks by Dr. Maxine Olson, UNDP Resident Representative to India and UN Resident Coordinator
Address by Prof. M S Swaminathan, Chairman, MSSRF
Address by Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM
Guest Address by Kraisorn Pornsutee, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Royal Thai Government
Presidential Address by Jainder Singh, Secretary, DIT, Government of India
Inaugural Address by Hon’ ble Shri Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister for Science & Technology and Ocean Development, Government of India |
| 11.00 -12.00 am |
Inauguration of Exhibition |
| 12.00-1.00 pm |
Convocation of Jamshedji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity Fellows |
| 1.00 - 2.00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00- 3.30 pm |
International perspectives in ICT in Education
Chair: Kesav Desiraju, Jt Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Dr Edilberto de Jesus, Director, South-east Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO), Thailand
Dr Dorothy Gordon, Director, Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in IT, Ghana
Minja Yang, Director and representative, UNESCO-India
Prof Yin Cheong Cheng, President, Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA )
Col K J Singh, Director, Designmate |
| 3.30 – 4.00 pm |
Tea/coffee break |
| 4.00 - 5.30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Framework for ICT in education policy by Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI)
Chair: Subhash Khuntia, Jt Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Moderator: Dr Ashish Garg, GeSCI
Patti Swarts, Education Strategist, GeSCI
Alfred Ilukena, Under Secretary:Formal Education, Ministry of Education, Government of Namibia
Dr K K Gupta, Director IT, Department of Education, Govt. of Rajashthan
Vivek Bharadwaj, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India |
e -Learning : The technology and learning perspective
Chair: Dr G Narendra Kumar, IT Secretary, Goverment of National Capital Territory of Delhi
Dr A Chauhan,President, Amity (to be confirmed)
M G Bala Prasanna, Project Manager, Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad
Soumya Kanti, Senior Vice-President, Educomp
Ashish Duggal, Director-Marketing, GILAT
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Indira Yadav , Director, Primary Education, Municipal Corporation, Delhi
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| 7.00 pm onwards |
Dinner Panel
Chair: R. Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, DIT, Govt. of India
Co-chair: Subhash C Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development
Special Remarks by Rohit Kumar, Country Head, Microsoft
Special Remarks by Shantanu Prakash, CEO, Educomp
Special Remarks by Alok Bhardwaj, Vice-President, Canon-India
Dinner Speech by Shri Mani Shankar Aiyer, Hon’ble Minister of Panchayati Raj and Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India |
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| Day 2, 24 August 2006 |
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| 9.00 -10.30 am |
Special session by
American India Foundation
Integrating Technology into Education- the American India Foundation-Digital Equaliser way
Keynote: Dr. Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Vice Chairperson of the Planning Board,
Government of Punjab
Shankar Venkateswaran, Executive Director, American India Foundation
Sunder Krishnan , Head ICT, American India Foundation
Annie Koshy , Principal/Teacher, St Mary School, Delhi
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Special session by Plan International
ICT for Children
Moderator: Randeep Kaur, Plan International
Presenters:
Douglas Bell, Education Development Centre
Karnaram Punar, Urmool, Rajasthan |
| 10.30-11.00 am |
Networking Tea/coffee Break |
| 11.00 - 1.00 pm |
Special session by
American India Foundation
Technology in schools-Building Partnerships for Success
Moderator: Manas Chakrabarty,
Head
HIWEL
K Chandramouli, State Project Director, Andhra Pradesh
J Shankar, Azim Premji Foundation, India
Ashutosh Chadda,
Manager-Education, Intel, India
Dr Poonan Batra, Central Institute of Education, Delhi University
Member Connect Launch of Nasscom
Kiran Karnik, NASSCOM
Shankar Venkateswaran, Executive Director, American India Foundation |
Panel discussion: Plan International
ICT for Children – Opportunities for rural areas
Moderator: Randeep Kaur, Plan International
Dr Nilay Ranjan,Oneworld South Asia
Ajay Kapoor, Oracle India
Priti Patil, CDAC, Mumbai
Sajan Venniyoor , Prasar Bharti
Douglas Bell ,
Sr. Technical Officer, Education Development Centre
Discussion and Q & Answer session |
| 1.00-2.00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00- 3.30 pm |
Government initiatives in ICT in ‘Education for All’
Chair: N K Sinha, Jt Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development (To be confirmed)
Amit Kaushik , Director, Ministry Of Human Resource Development (to be confirmed)
Namrata Kumar , State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Uttaranchal
Meena Bhat , State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Gujarat
Unmesh Gergaonkar, Deputy project Director Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Maharashtra
M C Pant, Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling
O N Singh, Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti
Discussion - recommendations |
e-Learning: Process, Technology, Capacity building
Chair: Col. K J Singh, Director, Designmate
Flor Hurtado , Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa (ILCE) , Mexico
Tess Camba, Commission on Information and Communications Technology, Philippines (TBC)
Dr Safiqul Islam,Programme Head
, BRAC, Bangladesh
Sanna Juutinen,
Researcher
, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Zahid H Khan, Hony.Director, FTK, Centre for Information Technology, Jamia Milia University
Dr. Poonam Rani Gupta , CDAC, Delhi
Discussion - recommendations |
| 3.30 – 4.00 pm |
Networking Tea/coffee Break |
| 4.00 - 5.30 pm |
Panel discussion
Technology integration in classroom: Challenges and opportunities
Moderator: Dr. Gaurav Bhatnagar, Vice President, Educomp
Manisha Solanki,
Development Advisor, European Commission, India
Alexa Joyce,
Assistant Project Officer
, UNESCO, Bangkok
G. Balasubramanian, Former Director of Academics,
Central Board of Secondary Education
Abhinav Dhar, Senior Vice-President, Educomp
Kalpana Kapoor, Principal, DPS, Vasundhara
Indrajit Bhattacaharya, Additional Director, DOEACC Society
Dr Morten Falch, Danish Technological Institute
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e-learning: Process, Technology, Capacity building
Chair: Sonjib Mukharjee, CEO, Metalearn
Vivek Agarwal,
CEO, Liqvid
Uday Singh Pawar, Assistant Researcher, Microsoft Research India
Srikanth B. Iyer, President & COO, Edurite
Kinkini Dasgupta Misra,
Scientist
, Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology
Anil Jaggi, Education Consultant
Discussion - recommendations |
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| Day 3, 25 August, 2006 |
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| 9.00 -10.30 am |
Leadership reflections in ICT integration in education: Technology, Content, Capacity building
Chair: Dr Dorothy Gordon, Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in IT, Ghana
Nancy Knowlton,
President & Co-CEO, Smart Technologies Inc.
Shantanu Prakash, CEO, Educomp
Capt. K J S Brar, CEO
Designmate
Prabish Chandran, Director, Vidyatech |
Open Technologies in education in
Prof Vijay Kumar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT), Advisor to the Knowledge Commission
Jeff Merriman , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT)
Phil Long, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) |
| 10.30-11.00 am |
Networking Tea/coffee Break |
| 11.00 - 1.00 pm |
Government perspectives in ICT in Education
Chair:(to be decided...)
Smrt P R Srivastava, Jt Commissioner (Admin), Kendriya Vidyalaya Samiti (Too be confirmed)
C K Subramanium, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre
Shashi Bhushan, HOD-Edusat, Central Board of Secondary Education
Shashi Bhushan, Reader, Indira Gandhi National Open University
M Sudesh, Assistant Director, Training and Pedagogy, Department of Education, Government of Maharashtra
L K Atheeq, State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Govt. of Karnataka |
Panel discussion by QUEST-USAID
Public Private Partnerships for ICT in Education - QUEST-USAID
Aakash Sethi, Executive Director, QUEST Alliance
Ujwal Thakkar, CEO, Pratham
Nalini Gangadharan, Chairperson & Trustee
Child and Police
(CAP).
Douglas Bell, Sr. Technical Officer, Education Development Centre
Madhu Ranjan, Education Officer, USAID
Microsoft India Representative |
| 1.00 - 2.00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00- 4.00 pm |
Measurement and evaluation of e-Learning, localization and large scale take-up of e-Learning
Chair: Subhash Khuntia, Jt Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Gov of India
Dr Utpal Malik, NCERT
Shankar Venkateswaran, America India Foundation
Vivek Bharadwaj, Ministry of Human Resource Development
Nalin Jena, World Bank
Manas Chakrabarty,
Head
,HIWEL |
| 4.00 – 4.30 pm |
Networking Tea/coffee Break |
| 4.30 - 5.30 pm |
Wrap-up
Chairperson: Dr. M P Narayanan, President, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
Panellists:
Surekha Subarwal, Assistant Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India
Adrian Marti, Deputy Country Head, Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC)
Piti Premotedham, Managing Director, Asia South, Computer Associates
Subash Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India
R. Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India
Valedictory Address by Amitabha Pande, Secretary, Inter-State Council, Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India
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