Agenda

19 May 2005

15:30 - 19:00 Plenary Session 2

Venue:

• Konstantinovsky Palace, The Marble Hall

Chairpersons:

• Françoise Rivière, ADG/ODG, UNESCO
• 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)

Presentations:

1. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Building the Information and Knowledge Societies: Concepts, Strategies, Programmes»
   Earl Mardle, Principal, KeyNet Consultancy (Australia)
2. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Human Capacity Building for Knowledge Societies. Personal Information Culture»
   Olga Vershinskaya, Senior Researcher, Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Russia Academy of Sciences (Russia)
3. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Education for Knowledge Societies»
   Paul Resta, Director, Learning Technology Center, The University of Texas at Austin (USA)
4. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Science and Innovations in Knowledge Societies»
   Sergey Shaposhnik, Head, Directorate of Monitoring Information Society Development, Institute of the Information Society (Russia)
5. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Cultural Diversity in Knowledge Societies»
   Elizabeth Longworth, Director, Information Society Division (UNESCO)
6. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Universal Access to Public Domain Information»
   Victor Naumov, Ernst & Young CIS (Russia)
7. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Development of Communications and Freedom of Expression»
   Taras Shevchenko, Director, Kiev Institute of Media Law (Ukraine)
8. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Stakeholders` Partnership and Cooperation to Foster Information Society Development»
   Tatiana Ershova, General Director of the Institute of the Information Society; Chair of the Board of the Russian e-Development Foundation
9. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Business Environment for Knowledge Societies»
   Alexander Yevtiushkin, Head, Directorate of Innovative and Investment Programmes, Institute of the Information Society (Russia)
10. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Information Society Technologies and Infrastructure»
    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)
11. Report on activities and recommendations of the section «Policies of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Digitization and Preservation»
    David Bearman, President, Archives and Museum Informatics (Canada)
12. Report on activities and recommendations of the Round Table «NGO Role in the Information Society»
    Divina Frau-Meigs, Professor, University Paris 3-Sorbonne; Vice-president, International Association for Media and Communication Research focal point, education, academia and research taskforce in WSIS (France)

General discussion of recommendations delivered by sections

Moderators:

• Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute of the Information Society (Russia)
• Daniel Malbert, Chair of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme (France)

Establishing a working group on drafting conference follow-up materials

Summing up the results of the conference