3rd Internet and Multimedia
World Summit

Montreux, Switzerland 8 -11 October 2002

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You will find hereafter the speeches and presentations of the speakers, in the language of their choice.

Tuesday, October 8

Defining the Divide, Pushing for Inclusion

Bridging the Divide: Where Do We Start?
Sam PITRODA (CEO, WORLDTEL, India)

The Information Society: From the Digital Divide to Self-Emancipation
Mohamed BEN AHMED (Chairman, RIADI Research Laboratory, University of La Manouba, Tunisia) Société de l'Information : réduire la fracture numérique par l'auto-émancipation (.doc)

HP and the e-inclusion Foundation : what does this model teach us?
Didier PHILIPPE (Director, Strategy and Corporate Development EMEA - Europe, Middle East & Africa, Switzerland)

Defining the Divide: the Multimedia Industry Speaks Out
Chair: Bertrand De PETIGNY (FIAM Board member, CEO Cyber-Express Ltd., France)
Amadou TOP (Secretary General, OSIRIS, Senegal)
Cid TORQUATO (Executive Director, CAMARA-E.NET, Brazil)
Marcha ARFEL (Vice-president, Nouvelles Entreprises et Territoires, France)
Matthew HALL (Partner and Treasurer, Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association, Australia)
Mouaz SOUABNI (President, Tunisian Association for Internet and multimedia, Tunisia)
Philippe WACKER (Secretary General, European Multimedia Forum, France)
Vasile BALTAC (President, Information Technology Association of Romania, Romania) Digital Divide: Beyond the Statistics (.ppt)

Wednesday, October 9

Fostering Digital Content Creativity and Usage

Toward Digital Inclusion
Sana GHENIMA (Association tunisienne de l'Internet et du multimédia, Tunisia) La Tunisie à l'ère des Nouvelles Technologies (.ppt)

How Can Software Bridge the Digital Divide?
Chair: Jean-Michel CORNU (Scientific Director, Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération, France)
Mohamed BEN AHMED (Chairman, RIADI Research Laboratory, University of La Manouba, Tunisia)
Soo Hoe NAH (Open Source SIG member, Malaysian Internet and Multimedia Association PIKOM, Malaysia) Bridging the Digital Divide:
Building E-Communities with Open-Source Software (.doc)
Michael THOMSEN (Scientific Director, The Interactive Institute, Sweden)
Digital Information and the Digital Divide (.doc)
Shaun LAKE (Managing Director, Global Trade Training, South Africa)
Can open source bridge the digital divide (.ppt)
Eduardo DA COSTA (CEO, NestBoston, Brazil) Can Software Bridge
the SOCIAL divide? (.ppt)
Tatiana ERSHOVA (Director General, Institute of Information Society, Russia) Open Source in Russia to Bridge Digital Divide (.ppt)
Rapporteur: Elena CAMOU (Board of Directors member, CAVECOM, Venezuela) Software Development : The Venezuelan Competitive Project (.ppt)

Governance and the Internet : the Challenge of Balance, Fairness and Equity
Chair: Richard DELMAS (Principal Administrator, European Commission, Advisor to GAC, France)
YJ PARK (Board member, Multilingual Internet Names Consortium, Korea)
Demi GETSCHKO (Member of Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, Brazil)
Internet in Brazil(.ppt)
Greg JONES (Counsellor, International Telecommunications Union, USA)
ITU and ICANN reform (.ppt)

Fiscal and Regulatory Issues of Digital Trade: Implications for Developing Countries
Susan TELTSCHER (Economic Affairs Officer, E-Commerce Branch, UNCTAD, Germany) Fiscal and Regulatory Issues of Digital Trade:
Implications for Developing Countries (.ppt)

Intellectual Property and Piracy Issues in Internet and Multimedia
Chair: Georges CHATILLON (Professor, University of Paris 1, France)
Matthew HALL (Partner and Treasurer, Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association, Australia)
Pradhumna DUTT KAUSHIK (Fellow, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, India) Digital Medium and Intellectual Property Rights (.ppt)
Alan JAKIMO (Lawyer, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, USA)
Stan SINGH (Vice-President, MUI.com, Malaysia)
Stephan BRUNINX (Director General, Flanders Multimedia Valley, Belgium)
David MULS (Head, Electronic Commerce Section, Office of Legal and Organization Affairs and PCT System, WIPO)
Ricardo BARRETTO (Senior and managing partner of Carvalho de Freitas e Ferreira, Brazil) Digital Media - Copyright Protection In Brazil
Rapporteur: Philippe WACKER (Secretary General, EMF, France)

How to Provide for Original and Diverse Local Digital Content?
Chair: René BOUCHARD (Director General, Heritage Canada, Canada)
Graham VICKERY (Principal Administrator, OECD, UK) Connectivity and content (.ppt)
Olga HEKER (President, Associacion Argentina de Multimedia, Argentina)
Jean-Loup CHAPPELET (Professor, Institut des Hautes Études en Administration Publique, Switzerland) Providing Digital Content : the Swiss Governments's Role (.ppt)
George SHARKOV (Chairman, Bulgarian Association of software developers, Bulgaria) How to provide diverse and culturally relevant local digital content? (.ppt)
Patrice HUSSON (Principal Administrator, European Commission, France)
Peter ARMSTRONG (Executive Director, OneWorld Ltd, UK)
Rapporteur: Peter DOBRILA (President, Association for Culture and Education, KIBLA, Slovenia)

Thursday, October 10

Technology and Knowledge Transfer

Technology and Knowledge Transfer : a Framework
Sibisisu SIBISI (CEO, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) Technology and Knowledge Transfer: A Framework (.ppt)

Technology Transfers and Models of Cooperation in the Internet and Multimedia Industry
Chair: Eduardo DA COSTA (CEO, NestBoston, Brazil) (.ppt)
Gultekin OZALTINORDU (Programme Administrator, EMDS/DTSS, Turkey)
E-Trade Bridge Programme for SMEs (.ppt)
Paul TJIA (Anthropologist, GPI Consultancy, Netherlands)
Georges SCHARFFENBERGER (President, Volunteers in technical Assistance, USA) Avoiding Rusty Tractors (.doc)
Jac STIENEN (Executive Director, International Institute for Communication and Development, Netherlands)
Rapporteur: Claude ROBIN (President, Franche Comté Interactive, France)

Using Wireless Technologies for Development
Chair: Daniel KAPLAN (Director General, Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération, France)
Jean BARRETTE (General Manager, Equity and R&D, Bell Mobility, Canada) Use of Wireless: Global and North American View(.ppt)
Bertil THORNGREN (Professor, Swedisch School of Economics, Sweden)
Hassan AMOR (President, Association des professionals des technologies de l’information, Morocco) (.doc)
Seth HEINE (CEO, CollectiveGood International, USA) CollectiveGood :
Mobile Phone Recycling (.ppt)

The Multimedia Industry and Employment : Trends and Issues
Chair: Richard PEARSON (Executive Director, Institute of Employment Studies, UK)
Hervé LHOUMEAU (General Secretary, Aquitaine Multimedia, France)
Duncan CAMPBELL (Head of Employment Strategy Department, International Labour Organization, UK) Life at Work in the Information Economy (.ppt)
Li JIAN PING (Vice Chairman, Shanghai Multimedia Industry Association, China)
Gerhard ROHDE (Department Head, Union Network International, Germany) HR Development in Multimedia: Trends and issues (.doc)
Gerardo BRENES (President, International Global Business Systems, Costa Rica) Training and Retention of IT talent: A Costarican perspective (.ppt)
Rapporteur: Choujaa LAHZAMI (Professor, University of Genève, Switzerland)

Multimedia Tools and Software in e-learning
Chair: Alaa AL AGAMAWI (CEO, ISIS, Egypt) (.ppt)
Shaun LAKE (Managing Director, Global Trade Training, South Africa)
New generation e-learning (.ppt)
Patrick BARAZZONI (E-learning manager, Infolearn and Altran Group, Switzerland)
Tanya NORTHCOTT (CEO, Odyssey Learning Systems, Canada)
Odyssey Learning Systems (.ppt)
Baard KROGSHUS (Coordinator, EUROLEARN.net, Norway)
Multimedia tools and software in elearning (.ppt)
Alex LUCENA (Partner, EDUWEB, Brazil) (.ppt)
Rapporteur: Daniela INTERIANO ZECCA (President, CREADISA, Costa Rica) Available infrastructure versus real needs for e-learning delivery (.ppt)

Pierre GAGNÉ, Executive Director, World Summit on the Information Society 2003, ITU, Canada) Vers le Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information (.doc)