11 December 14:00 to 15:30 Parallel Panel Session 1 Room 302-303, Level 3   Session Lead: International Development Research Centre Adel El Zaim   Session keywords: Language, localisation, trends, access, knowledge society, technology

ET1: Emerging Technologies Session ICT for a Multilingual Knowledge Society     Linguistic and cultural diversity are realities of development, and knowledge is expressed and conveyed in all languages and cultures. ICT can transcend all languages and cultures, and it is our willingness to exploit that potential that will make a difference in ensuring full access to technology for effective participation of all in development and in the knowledge society. Localisation of ICT includes ensuring content and user interfaces are available in all users' languages, and adapted to cultural preferences and sensitivities. It is a growing area of concern in research and in business sectors. Its application in development is an emerging and promising concern that merits greater attention from governments, academia and business sectors.   This session will address the following key questions: What is localisation of ICT in local languages and cultures, and why is language important to development? What are the trends in localisation of ICT and local language support by ICT in the world? What does localisation bring to ICT4D and to development efforts based on ICT? What does localisation of ICT mean for knowledge societies? Panellists: Adama Samassékou, President of MAAYA - the World Network for Linguistic Diversity Lisa Moore, Software Engineer, IBM Corporation & Co-Chair, Internationalization and Unicode Conferences Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Independent Consultant, IT +46 HB   Moderator: Sarmad Hussain, Associate Professor & Head Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, NUCES, Lahore, Pakistan    Resources: Dwayne Bailey speaks to GKP on 'ICT for a multilingual society' in an audio interview News:Content is king in Internet control, Glenn Omanio, Kyodo News, 22 Dec 2007

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11 December 14:00 to 15:30 Parallel Workshop 1 Room 308-309, Level 3   Session Lead: Bellanet Allison Hewlitt   Session keywords: Networks, facilitation, techniques, tools, collaboration, world cafe, speed geek

ET2: Emerging Technologies Workshop Collaborative Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Networks (Part 1)   Many network or community-building events, whether large or small, often result in low levels of interaction among participants due to their design. Network members, typically seen as the audience, are often expected to passively listen to speakers or panellists, with few opportunities for discussion or dialogue, This leads to staid mono-directional conversations rather than engagement and genuine interactions that really matter.   In addition, there is a missed opportunity to apply technologies that can bridge connections, broaden participation and support co-creation and documentation. This workshop provides a space for exchange and learning on methodologies that promote engagement, connections and knowledge generation; and new uses of tools that enable co-creation of alternative forms of documentation. Participants can expect to learn and share new approaches and ideas.   This workshop will address the following key questions: How can we give voice to ideas and proposals of members - whether within a work team, network or community? What kinds of approaches and methodologies lead to greater engagement, connections and knowledge generation? How are tools and techniques enabling co-creation of alternative forms of documentation? How can we learn and benefit from each others' experiences in designing and implementing approaches and adapting tools? Facilitators: Kemly Camacho, General Project Coordinator, Sulá Batsú Margarita Salas, Researcher, Sulá Batsú Rohit K. Nepali, Executive Director, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International Shikha Shrestha, Program Officer, Bellanet Asia / South Asia Partnership (SAP) International Bibhusan Bista, Technical Officer, Bellanet Asia / South Asia Partnership (SAP) International Abubaker Basajjabaka, Program Officer, Bellanet Africa Jacqueline Nnam, Program Officer, Bellanet Africa, Uganda Vincent Waiswa Bagiire, CEO, AITEC Development, Uganda Allison Hewlitt, Senior Program Officer, Bellanet / IDRC, Canada Michael Roberts, Senior Program Officer, Bellanet / IDRC, Canada

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11 December 16:00 to 17:30 Parallel Workshop 1 Room 308-309, Level 3   Session Lead: Bellanet Allison Hewlitt   Session keywords: Networks, facilitation, techniques, tools, collaboration, world cafe, speed geek

ET2: Emerging Technologies Workshop Collaborative Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Networks (Part 2)   Many network or community-building events, whether large or small, often result in low levels of interaction among participants due to their design. Network members, typically seen as the audience, are often expected to passively listen to speakers or panellists, with few opportunities for discussion or dialogue, This leads to staid mono-directional conversations rather than engagement and genuine interactions that really matter.   In addition, there is a missed opportunity to apply technologies that can bridge connections, broaden participation and support co-creation and documentation. This workshop provides a space for exchange and learning on methodologies that promote engagement, connections and knowledge generation; and new uses of tools that enable co-creation of alternative forms of documentation. Participants can expect to learn and share new approaches and ideas.   This workshop will address the following key questions: How can we give voice to ideas and proposals of members - whether within a work team, network or community? What kinds of approaches and methodologies lead to greater engagement, connections and knowledge generation? How are tools and techniques enabling co-creation of alternative forms of documentation? How can we learn and benefit from each others? experiences in designing and implementing approaches and adapting tools? Facilitators: Kemly Camacho, General Project Coordinator, Sulá Batsú Margarita Salas, Researcher, Sulá Batsú Rohit K. Nepali, Executive Director, South Asia Partnership (SAP) International Shikha Shrestha, Program Officer, Bellanet Asia / South Asia Partnership (SAP) International Bibhusan Bista, Technical Officer, Bellanet Asia / South Asia Partnership (SAP) International Abubaker Basajjabaka, Program Officer, Bellanet Africa Jacqueline Nnam, Program Officer, Bellanet Africa, Uganda Vincent Waiswa Bagiire, CEO, AITEC Development, Uganda Allison Hewlitt, Senior Program Officer, Bellanet / IDRC, Canada Michael Roberts, Senior Program Officer, Bellanet / IDRC, Canada

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11 December 14:00 to 15:30 Parallel Workshop 3 Room 307, Level 3   Session Lead: DiploFoundation Eva Tanner   Session keywords: Internet governance, ICANN, IGF, openness, negotiations, multi-stakeholder

ET3: Emerging Technologies Workshop Multi-Stakeholderism in Internet Governance (a look at ICANN and IGF)   This session looks at multi-stakeholder processes within international negotiations, concentrating on inclusion as the solution and way forward.  Both Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) have been built upon the idea of including participation by all stakeholders in two areas that may not be accustomed to such openness - the business-government area and the UN. This session will showcase how they are able to operate alongside and contribute to the global negotiations processes. This session will also benefit from the Internet Governance Forum held in Rio de Janeiro, in November 2007.   This session will address the following key questions: Are multi-stakeholder processes a viable solution in international negotiations? Can the experience developed in Internet governance be used in other fields of international affairs? What are lessons learnt so far from ICANN and IGF? Panellists: Mohammed Sharil Tarmizi, Former Government Advisory Committee (GAC) Chair, ICANN Anne Rachel Inné, Regional Liaison for Africa, Global Strategic Partnership-Africa, ICANN Markus Kummer, Head, IGF Secretariat Savenaca Vocea, Global Partnerships, Manager, Regional Relations - Australasia/Pacific Islands, ICANN   Moderator: Amr Aljowaily, Diplomat and Former WSIS Negotiator, Egypt

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11 December 16:00 to 17:30 Parallel Panel Session 5 Room 306, Level 3   Session Lead: Sarvodaya /LIRNE.Net Natasha Udu-gama   Session keywords: Disaster, Sri Lanka, hazard , warnings, multi-technology, tsunami, scaling-up, satellite radio

ET4: Emerging Technologies Session Making Communities Disaster Resilient   Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an alliance of civil society and private sector organisations have been striving to develop a robust solution for strengthening community resilience in the face of natural disasters. Efforts have ranged from technological innovation, such as remotely activated warning devices, to field simulations. Initiated pilot projects can now provide real data to support implementation.   Panellists intend to share learning for regional scaling-up of these pilots through discussion, videos and actual equipment demonstrations. The pilots to be highlighted are the satellite radio from WorldSpace and the GSM-based warning device developed by Dialog Telekom, University of Moratuwa and MicroImage.   This session will address the following key questions: What would be the new thinking on private supply of public goods, new technologies and novel forms of community involvement? How can the essential public good of hazard warning be produced in adequate quantities and quality? Why do governments appear to have other priorities? How can communities organise themselves to become disaster resilient? How can the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) be successfully implemented in a multi-technology, multi-language, multi-country environment like the Bay of Bengal region? Panellists: Vinya Ariyaratne, Executive Director, Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka Natasha Udu-gama, Former Consultant, Sarvodaya Community-based Disaster Management Centre / HazInfo Project Dissemination Manager, LIRNEasia  | Nuwan Waidyanatha, Project Manager, LIRNEasia  Mala Rao, Manager Closed User Group Solution, WorldSpace Corporation (India) Michael De Soyza, Senior Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Public Policy, Dialog Telekom PLC   Moderator: Rohan Samarajiva, Executive Director, LIRNEasia

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11 December 16:00 to 17:30 Parallel Workshop 2 Room 302-303, Level 3   Session  Lead: International Development Research Centre Barbara Porrett   Session keywords: Open Access, digitisation, copyright, resources, content, research, challenges, publisher, journal

ET5: Emerging Technologies Workshop Open Access: Sharing Research, Expanding Resources   In this practical workshop, panellists from Latin America, Asia and Africa will show how Open Access is a winning proposition for all by presenting their own, real experiences that will equip participants with the information, encouragement, and contacts to return to their own institutions as leaders in Open Access. Focusing on Institutional Repositories (IR) as a means to expand the research resources and networks of researchers and research institutions, participants will gain practical suggestions for designing an IR model for their own organisations and to address such topics as building organisational readiness; intellectual property and knowledge sharing issues; technical requirements; resource finding; content recruitment; and digitisation.   This workshop aims to provide the link between the vision and practical guidelines for implementation, by applying common practices to address the following questions in participants? own situation: How do I get started with Open Access within my own institution, whether it be a research organisation or a journal publisher? How do I create a will to build an open access repository or to create (or transition to) an open access journal? What are some of the challenges and success stories? Where can I find resources to the greater open access community? What are the main issues I will need to address and what are some of the best practices (e.g. technical, copyright, digitisation, skill sets) in Open Access? Panellists: Dra. Dominique Babini, Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Social Science Virtual Library (CLACSO) Naina Pandita, Senior Technical Director, National Informatics Centre, India Martha J. van Deventer, Portfolio Manager - Virtual Research Environment Enablement, Library and Special Projects, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa Sri Wahyuni Soeripto, Information Officer / Consultant, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia   Moderator: Michael Clarke, Director of ICT4D, International Development Research Centre

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11 December 16:00 to 17:30 Parallel Workshop 4 Room 304-305, Level 3   Session Lead: TechSoup / CompuMentor Bradford R. Kane   Session keywords: Philanthropy, technology, NGO, civil society, social benefits, impact, community, societal transformation

ET6: Emerging Technologies Session Technology Philanthropy: Supporting NGOs and Civil Society Worldwide Successfully   This session will focus on innovations in supporting NGOs and civil society communities worldwide through the provision of technology resources to improve effectiveness, efficiency and accountability. Key issues revolve around the need to encourage these sectors to take advantage of the latest technologies to reap benefits in terms of extending reach and operations, maximising impact, and enabling others in their communities to do the same. Social benefits will also be emphasised, as will the magnified impact of assisting these sectors as a means to facilitate development of knowledge-based societal transformation across sectors.   This session aims to provide greater understanding of the need and methods for supporting the NGO and civil society sectors through product philanthropy, dissemination of technology information, and social networking. The future of technology philanthropy is dependent on the advancement of ICT development and capacity building to develop millions of new ICT leaders who will sustain and propel innovation across all sectors.   This session will address the following key questions:  Why are the NGO and civil society sectors critical for ICT development and societal transformation? Why do NGOs and civil society organisations need the latest software and hardware products? What social benefit accrues to the recipients of NGOs and civil society organisations by adoption of updated technologies? How can NGOs and civil society organisations access these technologies when they are already facing tight demands for limited financial resources?  Panellists: Rebecca Masisak, Co-CEO, TechSoup / TechSoup Global Rufina Fernandes, Executive Director, NASSCOM Foundation Jane Meseck, Senior Manager, Community Affairs, Microsoft Corporation Matt Keller, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, One Laptop Per Child   Moderator: Pete Cranston, Independent Consultant - Knowledge, Information, Communications & Technology in Development and NGO Management