Plenary: Local Authorities and the World Summit on the Information Society (Auditorium)
Objectives of the Plenary:
To offer a global vision of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the role that Local Authorities play in it.
To present the work carried out in advance by Local Authorities in order to prepare the Bilbao Summit.
To approve the Declaration and the Plan of Action of the Local Authorities on the Information Society and to prepare our participation in the WSIS in Tunis (16-18 November 2005).
Hours
08.30-08.45 Presentation of the operational procedure for the Summit.
Ana Aguirre, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Basque Government and Executive Co-president of the Bilbao Summit
08.45-10.00 Debate (I): “Local Authorities in the Information Society: The vision of the Regions”
Moderator: Jon Azua, President of the E-Novating-Lab and Ex Vice-president of the Basque Government
Fauzi Bowo, Vice-Governor of the Province Government of Jakarta, Indonesia
George Reid, President of the Scottish Parliament
Izaskun Bilbao, President of the Basque Parliament
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of the Region of Delhi, India
Levan Varshalomidze, Head of the Government of Ajara, Autonomous Republic of Georgia
10.00-11.15 Debate (II): “Local Authorities in the Information Society: The vision of the Cities”
Moderator: Prema Cariappa, Former Mayor of Bangalore, India
Iñaki Azkuna, Mayor of Bilbao
Desmond McKenzie, Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew (Jamaica), Vice-President of the World Conference of Mayors
Hugues Martin, Mayor of Bordeaux, France
Abbès Mohsen, Mayor of Tunis
Angela Spizig, Mayor of Cologne, Germany
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.15 Conference: “Significance of the New Information Society for Local Authorities”
Ernesto Samper, Former President of Colombia
12.15-13.15 Debate (III): “Local Authorities in the Information Society: The vision of Local Networks and Associations”
Moderator: Axel Leblois, Executive Director of CIFAL Atlanta and Special Advisor of UNITAR for the Information Society
Julio César Pereyra, President of the Latin American Federation of Cities, Municipalities and Associations (FLACMA)
André Santini, President of Global Cities Dialogue (GCD)
Hervé Le Guyader, President of the European Association of Regions for the Information Society (eris@)
Karmelo Sainz de la Maza, President of the Association of Basque Municipalities (EUDEL)
Chis Newby, President of Telecities
Chen Haosu, President of United Cities and Local Governments, Asia Pacific Regional Section (UCLG-ASPAC)
Dato Lakhbir Singh Chahl, Secretary-General of the Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of the Asia-Pacific Human Settlements (CITYNET)
Alberto Torres, Secretary-General of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP)
Makhosi Khoza, Chief Executive Officer of the South African Local Government Association
Lucia de Siervo, Representative of the National Association of Municipalities of Italy
Ahmad Al-Adsani, Assistant General Secretary of the Arab Towns Organization (ATO)
Datuk Khalid Bin Hj. Husin, Secretary-General of United Cities and Local Governments, Asia Pacific Regional Section (UCLG-ASPAC)
13.15-15.00 Cocktail-lunch at the Euskalduna Congress Centre
Thematic Workshops
Objective of the Thematic Workshops:
To make the Local Authorities aware of the aspects they should consider in order to implement Information Society promotion strategies in their territories or improve the ones that are already being undertaken.
Hours
15.00-18.30 Workshop 1: e-Administration and e-Democracy (Room A1)
Objective: To analyse how New Technologies enable the setting up of a new form of relationship between the Local Administration and its citizens, especially the establishing of on-line public services and taking advantage of New Technologies to improve the participation of citizens in public decision taking processes. To analyse the new concept of e-Democracy and the role of the Public Services in the process to incorporate ICTs into our social fabric and to what extent the authorities are acting as facilitators in this process or if they simply assume the role of a mere player.
President: George Reid, President of the Scottish Parliament and Representative of the e-democracy group of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE)
Speakers:
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of the Region of Delhi, India
Fernando Andrade, Mayor of Miraflores, Peru
Ace Kocevski, Mayor of Veles, Macedonia
Javier Ossandon, President of the European Local Authorities´ Telematic Network (ELANET)
Joseba Bilbao, Director of the Office for the Administrative Modernization of the Basque Government
Victor García, Director of Citizen Participation of the City Council of Madrid
Driss Kettani, Professor of the University of Ifrane, Morocco
Alejandro Prince, President of Prince&Cook, Director of the Technology and Development Institute of the Management and Development Foundation and Coordinator of RODAR Digital NGO´s group
José Ramón Rodríguez, Deputy Managing Director of the City Council of Barcelona and Chief Information Officer, Director of the e-Government Group of Eurocities
Objective: To analyse the role of Public Authorities as facilitators of connectivity, not only through the development of their own investments but also through the setting up of agreements with technological and communications operators and discuss which interconnection technologies are more effective in the medium- and long-term. To analyze the existing Technological options that allow the opportunities of the Information Society to reach everybody.
President: Ignacio Molinos, Director of Planning of the EUSKALTEL Network
Speakers:
Hannes Astok, Lieutenant Mayor of Tartu, Estonia
Marko Hren, State Undersecretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, DG information Society, Slovenia
John Mocho Lubuva, Director and Chief Executive of Ilala Municipal Council, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Christine Leurquin, Expert in space policy of the European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA)
Claude Combes, Director of Information and Communication Technologies and the and Strategy of Intermedia Sud, Castres-Mazamet, France
Daniel Kaplan, Founder and General-Delegate of the Foundation for the New Generation of Internet (FING), France
Daniel Aghion, Executive Director of the Wireless Internet Institute (W2i)
15.00-16.45 Workshop 3: Political Leadership and the Role of Elected Officials (Room A4)
Objective: To show what kind of leadership should be exercised by the Local Administrations so that, in coordination with the other public administrations, civil society and companies, they promote the development of the Information Society in each territory. Included within this section are aspects such as the training of politicians and technicians, the need to establish action strategies and programmes that have clear, measurable objectives and which include monitoring, control and evaluation activities.
President: Jyrki Myllyvirta, Mayor of Mikkeli, Finland, and Relator of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union for the Report “eEurope 2005: An Information Society for everybody”
Speakers:
Desmond McKenzie, Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew (Jamaica), Vice-President of the World Conference of Mayors
Celso A. Jaque, National Senator for the Province of Mendoza, Argentina
Andreu Francisco Roger, Vice-President of LocalRet and Mayor of Alella
Youval Eched, President of Yema Consultants, France
Gilberto Toro, Executive Secretary of the Colombian Federation of Municipalities, Colombia
Jaime Estévez, Project Director of Europa Press
Gawa Samuels, Lieutenant Mayor of the City of Cape Town, South Africa
Melody Cooper, Council-member in Corpus Christi and Member od the National League of Cities, United States
15.00-16.45 Workshop 4: e-health (Room A5)
Objective: To show experiences which, from the local level and through the promotion of New Technologies, enable the general health of the population to be improved, having a very particular effect on the acquisition oh healthy habits.
President: Ana María Bonilla Martín, Responsable of the Technical Area of the Space C Thematic Workshops, Sustainable Development
Speakers:
Filippo Vannoni/ Anna Laura Abbamondi, President and Director of The Montedomini and San Silvestro Service Centre of Florence, Italy
Line Kleinebrel, President of the Diabetes International Network and Responsible for the Telemedicine Unit and IT Management of the University Hospital Georges Pompidou, France
Begoña Otalora Ariño, Director of the Services and Economic Regime of the Public Health Department of the Basque Government
Marc Raucoules-Aimé, Director of Continuous Medical Education, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Devi Shetty, Director of the Narayana Hrudayalaya Cardiac Hospital, India
15.00 - 16.40 Local experiences (I)
Sala B1
Tomás Iriondo, General Director of Multimedia and Contents of the Telecommunications Cluster Association (GAIA)
Alberto Sanz Urien, Director of the Gambling and Entertainment Office of the Interior Department of the Basque Government
Jose Luis Aurrecoechea Urquijo, General Director of the Public Society of Environment Management of the Basque Government (IHOBE)
Marta Jacob, General Director of Research, Technology Development and Innovation of the Economy, Taxes and Innovation Department of the Regional Government of Baleares Islands
Yolanda Rueda, Internacional Conference Volunteers
Sala B3
Alain Bénéteau, Vice president of the Regional Government of Midi-Pyrénées, France
Marcel Desvergne, President of Aquitaine Europe Communication and of the Forum for Digital Civilizations (Ci´NUM), France
Tarcisio Della Senta, Director of the Universal Networking Language Programme
Gianluca Baldoni, Member of Partenalia, Mendoza Province, Argentina
David Castro Valero, City Councillor of Development, Training and Employment of the City Council of Getafe
Erich Kesslerand, Mayor of Arnoldstein, Austria
Frank Bekamp, Information Technologies Manager of Fingspang, Sweden
16.45 - 18.30 Workshop 5: Free Software (Room A3)
Objective: To discuss the feasibility of this new alternative, used by an ever increasing number of Public Authorities, in order to reduce their costs, prevent monopoly or oligopoly situations, and enable the interaction of the greatest possible number of administrations, citizens and companies.
President: Marcelo D'Elia Branco, Consultant for Information Technologies and responsible for the "Free Software project Brazil"
Speakers:
Benedetto Zacchiroli, Foreign Affaires of the City Council of Bologna, Italy
Louis-Dominique Ouedraogo, United Nations Inspection Unit, Burkina Faso
Jonas Öberg, Vice-president of the Free Software Foundation Europe
Sergio Amadeu, Professor of the Cásper Líbero Faculty and member of the coordination of the Free Software Project Brazil
Carlos Castro, General Director of the Information Society of the Junta de Extremadura
Martín Deira, General Director of the Information Systems of the City Council of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Objective: To show the type of partnerships that Local Authorities can establish and encourage them so that all the resources available in the territory (economic, human, infrastructures, etc.) are placed at the service of the common objective of developing the Information Society in a territory.
President: Datuk Khalid Bin Hj. Husin, Secretary-General of United Cities and Local Governments, Asia Pacific Regional Section (UCLG-ASPAC)
Speakers:
Christophe Nuttall, Director of the Innovative Partnership Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Nicole Hill, Local Authorities & Governments Vertical Market Director, Alcatel
Dianah L. Neff, Mayor’s Office of Information Services, Chief Information Officer of Philadelphia, United States of America
Manuel Pose Miñones, Mayor of Arteixo, Galica
Juan Matteo, Executive Secretary of the Argentinean Federation of Municipalities (FAM)
Mohamed Haj Taïeb, Mayor of Sfax, Tunis
16.45.18.30 Workshop 7: Culture and Identity (Room A5)
Objective: To analyse how technological development can contribute towards cultural transmission and towards the maintaining and reinforcement of minority languages and cultures.
President: Hervé Le Guyader, President of the European Association of Regions for the Information Society (eris@)
Speakers:
Yan ZHU, Director of Beijing´s Municipal Office of Informatization, China
Catherina Blom, Chief Executive Officer of the Development Agency of the Region of Blekinge, Sweden
Bernard Stiegler, President of the Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination (IRCAM), France
Tom Klinkowstein, President of Media A, LLC and Associate Professor in the Art, History of Art and Humanities Faculty of the University of Hofstra, U.S.A.
Fábio Anderson Rodrigues Pena, Coordinator of Education, Culture and Communication of the Social Inclusion Programme CEAPS (Project Saúde e Algeria), Brazil
Enrique Borda Villegas, Secretary General of the City Council of Bogotá, Colombia
16.45-18.30 Local experiences (II)
Sala B1
Juan Castillo, Economy Development, Employment and Commerce Department of the City Council of San Sebastian
Blanca Martínez de Vallejo, Councillor of Telecommunications and Information Society of the Infrastructures and Transport Department of the Regional Government of Valencia
Jorge Figueroa Córdova, Under Secretary of Planning of the State of Chiapas, Mexico
Hannes Karkowski, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany
Surbi Sharma, General Secretary of the Interactive Technology Software and Media Association (ITSMA), India
Hugo Leuders, Director of European Public Policies
Juan Eduardo Santón Moreno, Dalegate of Innovation and Information Society of the City Council of Valencia, and Director of the Strategies and Development Centre
