Draft Agenda
| 1ST STAKEHOLDERS MEETING ON CONNECT THE CARIBBEAN INITIATIVE “Caribbean Unity through Connectivity” |
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Wednesday 30th January - Thursday 31st January 2008
| Time | Event | Location |
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| 08:00 | Workshop Registration and Coffee | Torarica Ballroom |
| 08:30 | Opening Remarks Leon Williams, CANTO Chairman | |
| 08.45 | Connect Africa Initiative
Mr. Phillip Cross, Area Representative for the Caribbean, International Telecommunications Union An Overview of “Connect Africa Initiative” |
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| 09:00 | Connecting the Caribbean: Defining the Vision Ms. Glenda Medford, Director CANTO Board – C&W Barbados |
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| 09:15 | ICT: A Regional Overview Mrs. Opal Lawton, Consultant in Telecommunications Policy, Costing & Pricing Overview of Regional ICT Projects & A Gap Analysis |
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| 09:40 | Building Caribbean Capacity for ICT Policy and Regulation Kim I. Mallalieu (PhD) Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Coordinator, MRP (Telecommunications) The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine A Needs Assessment and Gap Analysis on Regional ICT Policy & Regulations |
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| 10:00 | Challenges and Benefits of a Connected
Caribbean Ms. Jennifer Britton CARICOM Telecommunications/ICT |
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| 10:20 | Morning Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 | A Connected Caribbean Ms Bernadette Lewis, Secretary General, CTU Policy Harmonization Development and ICT Training to Support the Initiative and Service and Application Development for Caribbean Integration |
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| 11:10 | OLPC Initiative in the Caribbean -
Enabling Broadband Connectivity NORTEL Mr. Raymond Bulengo Regional Sales Director – Caribbean Region |
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| 11:30 | "Strategy for Protecting the Caribbean
Connectivity" ALCATEL/LUCENT Mr. Jose Ariza, CISSP Business Continuity |
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| 11:50 | Wireless broadband
emerging technologies: Possibilities and challenges ERICSSON Mr. Richard Sherman, P.E. Director – Head of Technology Ericsson Market Unit Central America & Caribbean |
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| 12:10 | Connecting 100% of Cuba’s Educational Institutions
Ing. Beatriz Pino Díaz ETECSA Strategic and Business Division Sales and Business Department, ETECSA |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 01:30 | Preparation for Break-out session | |
| 01:50 | Focus Group Break-out Session
The conference will break into three groups. Each group will consider the vision of a connected Caribbean and brainstorm on ideas & challenges to get to that vision |
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| 03:50 | Focus Group Break-out Session Preparation of feedback to full meeting | |
| 04:45 | Wrap-up session for day 1 | |
| Day 2 | ||
| 9:00 |
Opening
Session
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| 9:20 | Focus Group Break-out Session
Focus groups will reconvene to finalize deliberations including feedback to full group Morning Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 | Morning Coffee Break | |
| 1:00 | Feedback from individual groups Three groups will present their feedback to full group | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 01:00 | Open Forum
The objective of the open forum is to come up with a draft framework for the Connecting the Caribbean Project. |
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| 03:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break | |
| 03:20 | Initial Plan of Action & Next Steps Decisions on actions to take and work approach for the next four months to the Nassau Summit on Connecting the Caribbean (2nd week July” 08, 2days) | |
| 04:00 | Closing Remarks | |
| 04:15 | END of Meeting |
