Agenda

18 May 2005

Section 5. Cultural Diversity in
Knowledge Societies
10:00 – 14:00 Session 1

Venue:

• The Baltic Star Hotel, Petrovsky Hall

Chairpersons:

• Milagros del Corral, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Culture (UNESCO)
• Kirill Razlogov, Director, Russian Institute for Cultural Studies (Russia)

Rapporteur:

• Elizabeth Longworth, Director, Information Society Division (UNESCO)

Discussion: The Role of Local Content Development in Building Knowledge Societies

Moderator:

• Milagros del Corral, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Culture (UNESCO)

Presentations:

1. Introductory Remarks
   Milagros del Corral, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Culture (UNESCO)
2. Developing Communication Capacity of Indigenous People: the San and Himbas Project
   Joelle Chesselet, Doxa Productions (South Africa)
3. DocNet Africa : On-line Distribution of Documentary Films
   Maty Gueye, Dakar Images (Senegal)

Discussion: The Linguistic Diversity Challenge: Old and New Professions

Moderator:

• Mauro Rosi, International Clearinghouse for Literary Translation (UNESCO)

Participants:

• Alina Butuman, Project Manager for E-Services, Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany) [Presentation]
• Alexandra Buchler, Director “Literature Across Frontiers”, Mercator Centre, University of Wales (UK)
• Cary Karp, Director of Internet Strategy & Technology, Swedish Museum of Natural History (Sweden)
• Iris Schwanck, Director, Finnish Literature Center (Finland)
• Miriam Rodgers-Lee, International Federation of Translators (IFT)

Section 5. Cultural Diversity in Knowledge Societies

15:30 – 19:00 Session 2

Venue:

• The Baltic Star Hotel, Petrovsky Hall

Rapporteur:

• Elizabeth Longworth, Director Information Society Division (UNESCO)

Discussion 1: Digital Heritage, Knowledge Societies and Cultural Diversity

Moderator:

• Isabelle Vinson, Museum International (UNESCO)

Participants:

• Jean Marc Blais, Canadian Heritage Information Network (Canada)
• Cary Karp, MuseDoma (ICOM)
• Ken Hamma, Executive Director, Digital Policies Initiative, Getty Foundation (USA)
• Lorna Abungu, President AFRICOM (Kenya)
• Shinji Matsumoto, (UNESCO)

Discussion 2: Digital Libraries: Their Promises and Related Challenges

Moderator:

• Elizabeth Longworth, Director Information Society Division (UNESCO)

Participants:

• Yannis Ioannidis, Professor, University of Athens; Coordinator of DELOS Network of Excellence Research Cluster on Information Access and Personalization (Greece) [Presentation]
• Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute of the Information Society; Editor-in-Chief, Russian Digital Libraries Journal (Russia) [Presentation]
• Daniel Malbert, Chair of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme; Head of the Department of the French Ministry of Culture (France)

19 May 2005

Section 5. Cultural Diversity in Knowledge Societies

11:00 – 14:00 Session 3

Venue:

• The Bultic Star Hotel, Petrovsky Hall

Rapporteur:

• Elizabeth Longworth, Director, Information Society Division (UNESCO)

Discussion: Creative Communities in the Web: the UNESCO Digi-Arts Portal (Arts and Music Connected to Media and Technology)

Moderator:

• UNESCO Digi-Arts Team Leader, UNESCO

Presentations:

1. Inter-Regional Educational Network
   A. Nasri, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
2. Youth Web Communities: Best Practices and Future Developments
   Julia Shappo, Palace of Youth and Children in Minsk (Belarus)
3. African Digital Community
   Marcus Neustetter, Trinity Session (South Africa)

Discussion: Go Mobile: New Opportunities for Developing Countries?

Moderator:

• Milagros del Corral, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Culture (UNESCO)

Participants:

1. Kimmo Lipponen, NOKIA (Finland)
2. Peter Rantasa, Managing Director, Music Information Center (Austria)

Drafting recommendations delivered during the previous sessions

Final Remarks and Conclusion:

• Elizabeth Longworth, Director, Information Society Division (UNESCO)