Preliminary Conference Programme

? Thursday Morning Draft Schedule
? Thursday Afternoon Draft Schedule
? Friday Morning Draft Schedule
? Friday Afternoon Draft Schedule
 

THURSDAY, June 2nd, 2005
TIME
Morning Draft Schedule

08.00

REGISTRATION

10.00

OPENING PLENARY: Creativity in the Global Information Society
 
Welcome:   Peter A. Bruck
Chairman World Summit Award
Opening of Conference:   Wolfgang Schüssel
Federal Chancellor, Republic of Austria
Koďchiro Matsuura
Director-General of UNESCO
Carlos Magarińos
Director-General of UNIDO
Roberto Blois Montes de Souza
Deputy Secretary-General ITU
Khedija Ghariani - State Secretary, Ministry of Communications Technology, Tunisian Republic
11.00
PLENARY ? KEYNOTE SESSION 1 ? IT & Creativity: Humanity in Innovation
 
Conference Chair:   Janis Karklins
President of WSIS Preparatory Committee
for the Tunis Phase
Keynotes:   Kálmán Kovács
Minister of Informatics and Communications
Republic of Hungary
    Habib Ammar
President of the WSIS Standing Organizing Committee Tunisian Republic
Adama Samassekou
President of WSIS Preparatory Committee for the Geneva Phase, President of the African Academy of Languages and Former Minister of Education, Republic of Mali
Q&A    
12.00
LUNCH - Buffet
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AFTERNOON Draft Schedule - 3 PARALLEL WORKSHOP SESSIONS
13.00
WORKSHOP SESSION 1
Creative Content & Community Building
 
WORKSHOP SESSION 2
Digital Rights / Creative Commons
Chair:
Wal Taylor
Professor Community Informatics
Cape Peninsula University of Technology Founding co-chair CIRN
Republic of South Africa

Panelists:
Paul Hoffert
President
Bell Canada New Media Fund, Canada
Simone Brecht
Vice President Content & Services, AOL, Federal Republic of Germany
Pau Alsina González
Director, UOC Virtual University-ArtNodes
Kingdom of Spain
Ana Serrano
Director, Habitat Canadian Film Centre,
Canada

Rapporteur:
Alexander Felsenberg
Founder, German Association for the Digital Economy, Federal Republic of Germany

Discussion
  Chair:
Nii Narku Quaynor
Chairman and CEO, Network Computer Systems Limited, Republic of Ghana

Panelists:
Richard Owens
Director of Copyright E-Commerce,
Technology and Management Division, WIPO
Peter Rantasa
Managing Director,
Music Information Center Austria,
Republic of Austria
Georg C. F. Greve

President, Free Software Foundation Europe, Federal Republic of Germany Georg Pleger
Coordinator, Creative Commons Austria
Republic of Austria

Rapporteur:
Ralf Bendrath
Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State"
University Bremen
Federal Republic of Germany

Discussion
WORKSHOP SESSION 3
eLearning and eScience:
Workshop on Best Practices
 
Chair:
Richard Straub
Chairman of the e-Learning Industry Group Learning Solutions IBM EMEA, France

Panelist:
Theo Hug
Associate Professor of Educational Sciences & Head of ARC Research Studio eLearning Environments, Republic of Austria
Joseph Weizenbaum
Professor Emeritus,
Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT,
United States of America
Hans Falk Hoffmann
Team Leader, resp. for participation
to WSIS, CERN, Switzerland
Robert Kristöfl
Head of IT Department
Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, Republic of Austria

Rapporteur:
Andreas Leo Findeisen
Research Assistant, Chair for
Media Theory & Philosophy of Culture
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Republic of Austria

Discussion
   
14.30
NETWORKING BREAK
15.00
WORKSHOP SESSION 4
eGovernment and eDemocracy
 
WORKSHOP SESSION 5
eBroadcasting and eMonopolisation: Creative Diversity in Mainstream
Cultural Industries
Chair:
Christian Rupp
Executive Secretary for eGovernment,
Austria

Panelist:
Shauneen Furlong
Executive Director,
Canada Government Online, Canada
Yvon Le Roux
Vice-President, Public Sector,
Cisco Systems Europe
Ilyas Naibov-Aylisli
Project Director, National E-Governance Network Initiative, Republic of Azerbaijan

Rapporteur:
Jak Boumans
Electronic Media Reporting,
Kingdom of the Netherlands

Discussion
  Chair:
Franz Patay
General Secretary, International Music Media Center,
Republic of Austria

Panelist:
Ronald Schwärzler
Executive Vice-President
Online Services & New Media, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF)
Republic of Austria
Karim Taga

Associate Director, Arthur D. Little
Republic of Austria
Paul Kafno
Managing Director, HD Thames
United Kingdom
Thomas Baubin
Managing Partner
Media Consulting Group
Federal Republic of Germany

Rapporteur:
Andreas Weinek
Executive Director, WeinekMedia GmbH,
Federal Republic of Germany

Discussion
16.30
NETWORKING BREAK

17.00

PLENARY ? KEYNOTE SESSION 2: A Cultural Agenda for Technology
 
Chair:   Peter A. Bruck
Chairman World Summit Award, Austria
Keynotes:   Rudolf Fischer
Chief Operating Officer (COO) Wireline Telekom Austria
Perttu Puro
State Secretary
Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland
Patrick De Smedt
Chairman, Microsoft Europe, EMEA, French Republic

19.00

CREATIVITY AMPHITHEATRE ? THE CULTURAL HORIZONS OF IT
  Buffet during presentations

Introduction Keynote:
Franz Morak
, State Secretary for the Arts and Media, Republic of Austria

THE IMPERIALISM OF VIRTUAL REALITY - WORK PRESENTATION:

MEMORIES OF VENICE AND THE TRACES OF A CITY
Massimo Catalfo, Multimedia Designer, Italian Republic

THE NARRATIVE PRISON OF TELEVISION ? WORK PRESENTATION:
PROGRAMS OF THE FUTURE FROM HD THAMES
Paul Kafno, Managing Director, HD Thames, United Kingdom

THE ENCYCOLPEDIA AS A GAME ? WORK PRESENTATION:
TIME HUNT AND LIFI
Danny Kodicek, Director, Wellspring Ltd, Czech Republic

KNOWING THE PSYCHE ? WORK PRSENTATION OF SIGMUND FREUD
Alexander Szadecky, Managing Director, Nofrontiere Design GmbH, Republic of Austria

THE EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTIVITY ? WORK PRESENTATION:
PERFORMANCES
Sally Jane Norman, Director, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

DJ: Electric Indigo
Production: Stanislav Miler

21.00

End
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FRIDAY, June 3rd, 2005
TIME
Morning Draft Schedule

09.00

PLENARY – KEYNOTE SESSION 3 – Creativity & IT:
Bridging the Digital Divide through Learning and Personal Capacity Building
 
Chair:   Peter A. Bruck
Chairman, World Summit Award, Republic of Austria
Keynotes:   Elisabeth Gehrer
Federal Minister for Education, Science and Culture,
Republic of Austria
Abdul Waheed Khan
Assistant Director-General for
Communication and Information, UNESCO
Dana Bérová
Minister of Informatics, Czech Republic
Q&A    
10.30
COFFEE BREAK
11.00
3 PARALLEL WORKSHOP SESSIONS
WORKSHOP SESSION 6
eCulture, Creative Content and DigiArts
 
WORKSHOP SESSION 7
Youth for Youth:
Creative Web Content from Young People
Chair:
Tereza Wagner
Deputy responsable officer, Division of Arts and Cultural Enterprise, UNESCO

Panelist:
Mark Federman
The McLuhan Program in
Culture and Technology
University of Toronto, Canada
Ricardo Mbarak
New Media Artist and University Professor, Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, Lebanon
Mark Amerika
Professor of Digital Art,
University of Colorado, USA
Carlos Cabral Nunes
Artist/Director, Colectivo Multimédia Perve, Portuguese Republic

Rapporteur:
Gerfried Stocker
Director
Ars Electronica, Austria

Discussion
  Chair:
Carina Felzmann
Member of Austrian Parliament, General Manager of Cox Orange, Spokesman Austrian Platform of Creative Industries,
Republic of Austria

Panelist:
Titi Akinsanmi
SchoolNet Africa
South Africa, Nigeria
Uwe Semtner
Director Marcom & PR EMEA,
ATI Technologies Europe GmbH,
Federal Republic of Germany
Nick Moraitis
Consultant and Author on Youth and Technology, Commonwealth of Australia

Rapporteur:
Andrea Khol
Marketing, music information center austria (mica), Republic of Austria

Discussion
 
WORKSHOP SESSION 8
Creative Business Ideas / Incubator
for Entrepreneurship
 
Chair:
Abel Rwendeire
Managing Director, Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division, UNIDO

Panelist:
Didier Philippe
Director, Strategy and Corporate Development, Hewlett-Packard EMEA
Thomas Staneker
Vice-President Consumer Marketing,
Fixed Solutions Division
Alcatel Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium
Martin Casey
Managing Director,
Arekibo Communications, Ireland
Oliver Irschitz
Founder & CEO, Peyote Design Company,
Republic of Austria

Rapporteur:
Waheed Al Balushi
President, Bahrain Internet Society,
Kingdom Bahrain

Discussion
   
12.30
LUNCH BREAK
?
AFTERNOON Draft Schedule
13.30
WORKSHOP SESSION 9
Economic Framework
for IT Corporations
 
WORKSHOP SESSION 10
Disruptive Technologies, broken Business: Winning with Creativity in the
new e-music business
Chair:
Michael Losch
Director General for Economic Policy, Innovation and Technology,
Republic of Austria

Panellist:
Sheila Robinson
Managing Director
Solvebrand Ltd &
Consultant to Sir Bob Geldof
United Kingdom
John Perry Barlow
Co-Founder & Co-Chair
Electronic Frontier Foundation
United States of America
Christine Maxwell
Senior Partner, Institute of Scientific Simulation, California, Trustee Emeritus,
Internet Society (ISOC)
Andreas Biebl
Head of Online Marketing
eBay Austria GmbH
Republic of Austria

Rapporteur:
Barbara Schumy
IT Journalist
Republic of Austria
Rudi Vansnick
Chairman ISOC Belgium
Kingdom of Belgium

Discussion
 

Chair:
Oliver Holle
Director
Finance and Content Partnerships
3united mobile solutions ag
Republic of Austria

Panellist:
Alfred Smudits
Secretary General
MEDIACULT
Republic of Austria
Klaus Kindl
Director
Mobile Music Divison,
Ericsson Worldwide
Charles Kriel (aka DVJ Kriel)
Senior Lecturer - Film & Media
Arts Institute at Bournemouth
United Kingdom

Rapporteur:
Franz Medwenitsch
Managing Director of IFPI Austria,
Republic of Austria

Discussion

15.00
NETWORKING BREAK

15.30

CONCLUSIONS
 
Chair:   Franz Morak
State Secretary for the Arts and Media, Republic of Austria
Conclusions & Outlook:   Peter A. Bruck
Chairman World Summit Award, Austria
    Miroslav Kovacic
State Secretary, Prime Minister's Office - eCroatia
Government of the Republic of Croatia

17.30

Closing of Conference
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© 2005 International Centre for New Media