International Conference
«UNESCO between two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society»

Agenda

17 May 2005 ã.

09:00 - 15:00 Participants registration

15:00 - 16:00 Opening Session

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Welcome addresses:

  1. Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation
  2. Alexander Sokolov, Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
  3. Leonid Reiman, Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation
  4. Françoise Rivière, ADG/ODG, UNESCO
  5. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
  6. Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union
  7. Sergey Tarasov, Vice-Governor of Saint Petersburg
  8. Grigori Ordzhonikidze, Executive Secretary of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO
  9. Mohamed Bellagi, Ambassador of Tunis in Russian Federation [Eng] [Fr]

16:00 – 18:30 Plenary Session 1

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Presentations:

  1. Sustainable Diversity in Knowledge Societies, Opportunities and Challenges
    Françoise Rivière, ADG/ODG, UNESCO
  2. Implementing Decisions of the World Summit on the Information Society
    Yuri Grin, Member of the UN ICT Task Force; Chairman of the Working Group on the World Summit on the Information Society, International Telecommunication Union; Director of Department of International Cooperation, Russian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (Russia)
  3. WSIS: Emergence of a Multi-Actor Partnership for a New World
    Adama Samassékou, President of the African Academy of Languages; President of WSIS Preparatory Committee for Geneva Phase; Former Minister of Education of Mali
  4. UNESCO and Knowledge Society for All: WSIS is a mere start ...
    Evgeny Kuzmin, Chairman of the Russian Committee and Member of Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, Head of the Department of Archives and Libraries of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation (Russia)
  5. Quality Education as a Building Block of Knowledge Societies
    Vladimir Tikhomirov, Rector, Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics and Informatics (Russia)