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MONTREUX
2002
Only a few
days left before the Summit is upon us. This year, the multimedia industry
is setting its attention on the Digital Divide and on the different approaches
and solutions to combat it. Entitled Bridging the Digital Divide: the
Multimedia Industry Speaks Out, (Montreux, Switzerland, October 8-11,
2002) the summit brings together 75 speakers from 32 countries who will
focus on such issues as technology and know how transfer in the multimedia
Industry, information technology employment and human resource development
in both rich and emerging economies, digital content production and localization,
co-habitation of open and proprietary software in the public and private
sectors, fiscal and regulatory issues of digital trade.
We will address
these issues by looking at several areas of industry activity: affordable
multimedia tools and applications produced nowadays that allow greater
use and enjoyment of interactive digital content; national and international
technology and know-how transfer mechanisms that help the development
of local multimedia industries; global, national and local initiatives
allowing for the development of original, localized and diverse interactive
digital content; and finally, legal and regulatory frameworks that facilitate
the multimedia industry's production and distribution of digital content
nationally and internationally.
More
about the program...
Furthermore,
the Federation, on behalf of the Associations and their members, seek
to intervene and represent the interests and intentions of the multimedia
industry in the decision-making process leading to the World Summit
on the Information Society (Geneva, December 2003) where important
decisions will be taken affecting national and regional information technology
and multimedia policies, structures and investment programs.
To discuss these issues during the three-day event, we have secured the
presence of renowned speakers, among whom Sam Pitroda, CEO of WorldTel
and a very important actor in the early development of IT in his country,
India; Erika Mann (Germany), European Parliamentarian and a great
believer in the need for change in Internet Governance; Eduardo Da
Costa form Brazil, founder of Softex, the Brazilian Software Program
for Export; Mohamed BEN AHMED, Professor and Chairman of the RIADI
Research Laboratory at the University of Manouba in Tunisia, an exponent
of open source software in emerging economies.
More
about confirmed speakers...
Close to
thirty important multimedia industry representatives will also join us
in Montreux and we should count on the participation of associations such
as PIKOM (Malaysia), Shanghai Multimedia Association (China),
European Multimedia Forum (Europe), Flanders Multimedia Valley
(Belgium), OSIRIS (Senegal), Northern Ireland Internet and Multimedia
Association (UK), Red Cientifica Peruana (Peru), Institute
of the Information Society (Russia), Brazilian Chamber of e-commerce
(Brazil), Australian Internet and Multimedia Association (Australia).
More
about attending associations:
AADM
(Asociación
Argentina de Multimedia )
AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia
Industry Association )
APEBI (Association des professionels
des technologies de l'information)
AQUITAINE MULTIMEDIA
ATI (Agence tunisienne d'Internet)
ATIC (Romanian Information Technology
Association)
ATIM (Association tunisienne de l'Internet
et du multimédia)
BASSCOM (Bulgarian software developers
association)
CAMARA E-NET (Camara Brasiliera de
comercio electronico)
CAPROSOFT (Camara de productores de
software de Costa Rica)
CAVECOM (Camara Venezolana de comercio
electronico)
DMMV (Deutscher Multimedia Verband)
EMF (European Multimedia Forum)
FING (Fondation Internet Nouvelle
Génération)
FMV (Flanders Multimedia Valley)
FRANCHE-COMTÉ INTERACTIVE
IIA (Irish Internet Association)
IIS (Institute of the Information
Society)
IKT NORGE (Information and Communication
Technology - Norway)
IVSZ (Hungarian Association of IT
Companies)
KIBLA (Kibla Multimedia Center - Slovenia)
MINC (Multilingual Internet Names
Consortium)
NASSCOM (National Association of Software
and Services Companies)
NIIMA (Northern Ireland Interactive
Multimedia Association)
OSIRIS (Observatoire sur les Systèmes
d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal
)
PIKOM (Association of the Computer
and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia)
RCP (Red cientifica peruana)
SWISSMEDIA (Swiss Multimedia Association)
It is still
not too late to register. For further information, please contact
Aurore Sun, Communications & Marketing Officer, Tel : +1 514 289
9966 (Montreal)
or Register
now.
www.fiam.org
www.internetworldsummit.org
FIAM
Strategic Plan 2003-2005
For those associations participating at FIAM General Assembly in Montreux
(October 10, 2002), we will present the results of the Strategic Plan
questionnaire sent to multimedia associations early this year. The response
rate was a success (30%) and geographically representative of the industry.
Interested and concerned Internet and multimedia associations will receive
in a couple of months the results of the questionnaire and a document
tracing the Federation's Action Plan based on the General Assembly proceedings.
News regarding the election of new FIAM Board Members and President will
also be sent to you in a few weeks' time. For more information on the
Strategic Plan, please contact Nasser
Boumenna, Director of Content and Strategic Development. You can also
find the discussion paper and the questionnaire on www.fiam.org
site.
FIAM and
the e-inclusion website initiative
FIAM is happy to announce its support for a new initiative aimed at promoting
the use of information technology for bridging the divide and raise funding
for educational projects in poor regions of the world. The initiative,
a unique website where every click is the equivalent of a .05 cents donation
to specific educational projects worldwide, was launched with the efforts
of the Digital Youth Consortium (DYC) and under the leadership of Prof.
Alfonso Molina. The main objective of the website is to increase public
and private sector as well as individual awareness and participation between
rich and poor regions of the world, with special focus on educational
projects. For more information, please contact Mr. Alfonso Molina or Alberto
Nardelli at
http://www.e-inclusionsite.org/eng/home.asp.
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