-- Program Advisory Board --     The Draft Schedule* Workshop:  NECTEC | NOLP April 25, 2006 12.00 am - 6.00 pm Registration   Day 1,  April 26, 2006 8.00 am - 9.00 am Delegate Registration 9.00 am - 9.30 am Welcome Tea/Coffee 9.30 am - 10.30 am GRAND HALL 2 Inaugral Session MP Narayanan, President, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) Suchai Charoenratana, Minister of ICT, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Royal Thai Government, Thailand Chaturon Chaisang, Minister of Education, Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Thailand 10.30 am – 11.15 am Vision Session R Chandrashekhar , Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, India Susanne Ornage r, Advisor for Communications and Information in Asia and Pacific, UNESCO 11.15 am – 12.00 pm Exhibition and Networking Time 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Lunch 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm e-Government Strategies in Thailand         By Ministry of Information Communication and Technology, Royal Thai Government, Thailand Maneerat Plipat, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Royal Thai Government Dr.Supachai Tangwongsan Vice President for Academic Infrastructures, Mahidol University 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Capacity Building of Asia Pacific e-Government Initiatives         UNCRD & UNDP- APDIP Session & Panel Discussion Welcome remarks Mr. Shahid Ahktar, Programme Co-ordinator, UNDP-Asia Pacific Development Information Programme, Bangkok, Thailand Mr. Kazunobu Onogawa, Director, UNCRD, Nagoya, Japan Session I. Creating the Enabling Conditions for Targeting the Vulnerable with e-Government Findings and Observations from the Draft Case Studies: Prof. Subhash Bhatnagar , Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Theme I: Targeting the Vulnerable with e-Government – What are the Main Challenges? Mr. Feng Chun Yang, Dean, Academy of e-Government, Peking University, China Prof. Rahul De, Indian Institute of Management, India Open Panel Debate Theme II: National e-Government Strategies: Creating Enabling Conditions Ms. Lkhagvasuren Ariunaa, CEO, Information and Technology Consulting company, Mongolia Dr. Harsha Liyanage, Deputy Executive Director, Social Programs, Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka Open Panel Debate Moderator Prof. Subhash Bhatnagar; Co-Moderator Mr. Lars Bestle, UNDP-APDIP 3.30 pm –4.00 pm Tea/Coffee Break 4.00 pm –5.30 pm Capacity Building of Asia Pacific e-Government Initiatives         UNCRD & UNDP- APDIP Session & Panel Discussion Session II: Good e-Governance Practices for Ensuring Participation and Beneficial Impacts of the Poor and Marginalised Theme III: Enhancing Participation and Democratic Governance Prof Seang-Tae Kim, e-Government Institute, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Mr. Mamoru Murabayashi, Director General, Policy Planning Bureau, Mie Prefecture Government, Japan Open Panel Debate Theme IV: Ensuring Beneficial Impacts of the Poor and Marginalised Dr. Wichian Chutimaskul, Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Dr. John Yat-chu Fung, Director, Information Technology Resource Centre, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service Open Panel Debate Moderator Prof. Subhash Bhatnagar; Co-Moderator Dr. Devyani Mani, UNCRD (tbc) 5.30 pm – 6.00 pm Tea 7.00 pm onwards Dinner Reception   Day 2,  April 27,2006 8.00 am- 9.00 am Delegate Registration 9.00 am – 10.30 am GRAND HALL 2 Leadership Reflections in e-Government Jeongwon Yoon , Director, National Computerisation Agency, Korea San Ng , The Asia Foundation ,USA Chip Cleary , NIIT Ltd, USA Gianluca Misuraca , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland Steve Furst , Director, Business Development, Public Services, SAP Asia Pte Ltd. 10.30 am–11.00 am Tea/Coffee 11.00 am– 12.30pm Issues and Implementation in e-Government: Asian Perspectives Michael Mudd , Director of Public Policy, Asia– Pacific, Comptia Ltd. HongKong Peter Moore , Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific Region, Singapore Dr. Nooraini Mohamad Ismail , Dean, Malaysia Somyot Tanapirunthorn , Vice President, Application Service Department, CAT Telecom, Thailand S N Tripathi , Secretary IT, Government of Orissa, India 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch 1.30 pm – 3.30 pm GRAND HALL 2 e-Government Applications and Services Jantima Sirisaengtaksin , Principal Advisor on ICT, Revenue Department, Thailand Anurag Rastogi , Govt of Haryana, India Maniam Kalianan , Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia Madhusudan Padhi, Orissa Primary Education programme authority, India Mohamed Aborizka, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt Moiz Hussain Ali, NIC Maharashtra, India Chandrasen Kumar, Food Corporation of India, India TULIP 1 Architecture& Framework Wanchai Varavithya , AIT, Thailand Dhrupad Mathur, National Institute of Smart Government (NISG), India B S Bindhumadhawa,CDAC, India SR Das , Ministry of IT, GoI, India Sameer Sachdeva, NISG, India VP Sharma, Deptt. of IT, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt of India Ray Teske , Nortel, Thiland 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Tea/Coffee 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm e-Government Applications and Services Sapna Kapoor , NIC Pune, India Panchatopa Dash, Bangladesh RK Senthil Kumar,C-DAC, India Magiswary Dorasamy, Malaysia Rajinder Kumar Vij , Deputy Inspector General of Police, Chhattisgarh, India Saurabh Gupta, NIC Guwahati, India Telecommunications and Wireless Technologies Conrad Labonte , Director - Wireless Networks Solutions, Nortel Asia Pacific, Thailand Manuela M. Mercandelli, Intel John Meyer , Director of Sales Support, Thailand, Gilat 5.30 pm onwards Tea/Coffee   Day 3,  April 28, 2006 8.00 am - 9.00 am Delegate Registration 9.00 am - 9.30 am Tea/Coffee 9.30 am – 10.30 am GRAND HALL 2 Emerging Perspectives in e-Government Dr. Mary O'Kane , Vice-Chair of our Board of Directors, Development Gateway Mehul Rajparia , Director, Channel Sales, Sybase Asia Pacific Partner Countries Punit Jain , Newgen Matthew Holden, Asia Pacific Director, Emerging Markets Development Group, SAP Kamthon Waithayaku l, President, Marketing and Product Development Telephone Organisaton of Thailand 10.30 am–11.00 am Tea/Coffee Break 11.00 am– 12.30pm GRAND HALL 2 Urban e-Governance Models Hitesh Vaidya , USAID FIRE Project, India Associate Prof Hajah Rugayah, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia Kolsoon Abbassi, Iran Telecommunication Research Centre, Iran Nishan Muthukrishna  Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Usha Deo and S. Parkhi NIC, India TULIP 1 Technology Trends PR Gupta and Govind Raj, CDAC, India Dominic Scott , CISCO Systems Asia Pacific, Hong Kong Parthasarathy J , Sun Microsystems Positioning and Navigation System using GPS Ray Teske, Nortel Networks, Thailand Sudhansu Gupta, Wipro Infotech Roberto Galbiati , Southeast Asia Sales Director, Riverbed Technology TULIP 2 RFID, Smart Cards and Emerging Applications Preeti Kulkarni, Vivekanand Education society's Institute of Technology India Pervez Ahmed, Al- Barkaat Institute of Management India Apinetr Unaku l, Asst. Prof & Research Director, King Mongkut’s Institute of Tech nology, Ladkrabang, Thailand Shahril Eashak Ismail, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia Dr. Surachai Srisaracam , Vice-Governor of Sisaket (Formerly with Bureau of Registration Administration), Thailand 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch Break 1.30 pm – 3.30 pm GRAND HALL 2 Rural e-Governance Models Teruhiko Yoshimura & Mark Rittenbacher, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Japan Panchatopa Dash , Bangladesh Sangita Bhattacharjee, Sylhet International University,Sylhet, Bangladesh Harekrishna Misra, Institute of Rural Management Anand, India Mohammad Zakaria, GoUF Partiicpatory Research & Development Foundation, Bangladesh Neeta Shah, Gujarat Informatics Ltd, India Youngyut Tariyo , CIO Association, Thailand Amitav Nath, CDAC, India TULIP 1 Country Case Studies Ashis Sanyal , DIT, GoI, India Ranjan Baral, Forum for Information Technology Nepal Chip Cleary , Vice President, Advisory Services, NIIT Ltd Dr Young Jin , Shin, MoGAHA, Korea Ahmed Imran , Australian National University, Australia Ghan Shyam Bansal , NIC, DIT, India 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Tea/Coffee 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Cyber Laws and Security Madhusudhana Rao , Centre for Good Governance, India Abdul Nasir , University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur University, India Country Case Studies C.N. Wickramasinghe , University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka RK Dave, Former OSD(IT), Government of India Hazman Shah Abdullah , Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia Dr. Rungruang , CIO Association, Thailand Mohammad Lagzian , Manchester University, UK 5.30 – 6.30 pm GRAND HALL 2 Valedictory Session and Closing Remarks e-Government in Asia - the Way Forward M P Narayanan, President, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies R Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, India Kraisorn Pornsutee, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT, Government of Thailand 6.30 pm Tea/Coffee * The Schedule is tentative and subject to changes
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