Thursday 11 November 2010

Moderator: Mr C. Lizcano Ortiz, Executive Director, Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC), Colombia

GSR Discussion Paper on The Liberalization of ICT Dispute Resolution, Rory Macmillan, Founding Partner, Macmillan Keck [presentation]

• Understanding disputes, institutions and processes in a digital world

• New areas of contention: a call for rethinking traditional and holistic thinking?

• Are alternative dispute resolution mechanisms key to effective resolution of disputes in a digital world? What about alternative dispute resolution bodies?

• Innovation in dispute resolution techniques

Interactive panel discussion

Panelists:

• Mr Satya Brata Sinha, Chairperson, Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, India

• Dr. Krishna Oolun, Chief Executive Officer, Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA), Mauritius

• Dr. Eugene Juwah, Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Nigeria

  11:00 - 11:15          COFFEE  BREAK

  11:15 - 12:30          SESSION 5: ICTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT ROLE FOR REGULATORS?

Moderator: Mr Ilyas Ahmed, Chief Executive, Communications Authority of the Maldives (CAM), Maldives

GSR Discussion Paper on Climate Change, ICTs and Regulation, Stephen Young, Founder/Director, www.ICTandClimateChange.com [presentation]

• Understanding climate change issues: where ICTs meet climate change?

• Mitigation, adaptation, transformation and regulation

• What activities to regulate? What role for regulators? How to integrate a stronger environmental focus in the activities of the regulators?

• What policies to adopt that wouldn’t add further burdens to the sector?

Interactive panel discussion

Panelists:

• Mr Harry Yuan, Commissioner for Government Affairs and National Policy, Telecommunications Authority (LTA), Liberia
• Mr Oscar Manikunda, Director General, Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Télécommunications (ARPTC), Congo (Dem. Rep.)
• Mr Paarock Vanpercy, Director General, National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana
• Ing. Miguel Velez, Director of Markets Regulation, CONATEL, Honduras

  12:30 - 14.30          NETWORKING LUNCH

  14:30 - 16:00          SESSION 6: ADDRESSING CYBERthreats

Moderator: Ms Zohra Derdouri, President, Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Télécommunications, Algeria

• Mr Papa Assane Touré, Magistrate, Regional Tribunal, Senegal

• Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, CEO, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO)

• Prof. Ibrahim Kadi, Senior Advisor, Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), Saudi Arabia

• Is the Information Society here? What is the impact on everyday lives?

• Has the Information Society outrun regulation?

• How can regulators ensure that the benefits of the new social technologies are available to everyone? What role do governments have in promoting social networking media?

• Can regulators mitigate the unforeseen aspects of the Information Society?

• Is online content beyond the scope of their authority?

• Cooperation among regulators for the development of new media

• Col. Dr. Natee Sukonrat, Commissioner, The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Thailand

• Mr Philippe Metzger, Deputy Director, Office Fédéral de la Communication (OFCOM), Switzerland

• Mr Jean Louis Beh Mengue, Director General, Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications,
  Cameroun

• Mr Rafael Eslava Herrada, Head of Unit of Prospective and Regulation, COFETEL, Mexico

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