10th November

Plenary: Local Authorities and the World Summit on the Information Society (click here to see the video)

Ana Aguirre, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Basque Government and Executive Co-president of the Bilbao Summit

Debate (I): Local Authorities in the Information Society: The vision of the Regions (click here to see the video)

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
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

Debate (II): Local Authorities in the Information Society: The vision of the Cities (click here to see the video)

Moderator: Prema Cariappa, Former Mayor of Bangalore, India

Representatives of the Cities:

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

Significance of the New Information Society for Local Authorities (click here to see the video)

Ernesto Samper, Former President of Colombia

Debate (III): Local Authorities in the Information Society: The vision of Local Networks and Associations (click here to see the video)

Moderator: Axel Leblois, Executive Director of CIFAL Atlanta and Special Advisor of UNITAR for the Information Society

Representatives of the Associations and Local Networks

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)

Workshop 1: e-Administration and e-Democracy (click here to see the video)

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:

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
- Javier Ossandon, President of the European Local Authorities´ Telematic Network (ELANET)
- Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of the Region of Delhi, India
- Fernando Andrade, Mayor of Miraflores, Peru
- Ace Kocevski, Mayor of Veles, Macedonia
José Ramón Rodríguez, Deputy Managing Director of the City Council of Barcelona and Chief Information Officer, Director of the e-Government Group of Eurocities
- 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

Workshop 2: Infrastructures (click here to see the video)

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)

Workshop 3: Political Leadership and the Role of Elected Officials (click here to see the video)

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

Workshop 4: e-health (click here to see the video)

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

Workshop 5: Free Software (click here to see the video)

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

Workshop 6: Public-Private Partnerships (click here to see the video)

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

Workshop 7: Culture and Identity (click here to see the video)

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