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Innovations for Digital Inclusion
ITU-T Kaleidoscope event, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 31 Aug - 1 Sep 2009

Programme

Day 1, 31 August 2009 (Monday)
09:00 - 10:30 Opening Plenary

Plenary chairman: Yoichi Maeda, Kaleidoscope General Chairman / NTT

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 1 – Is digital inclusion a good thing?

Session chairman: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, USA

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Session 2 – Leveraging network-enabled services for digital inclusion

Session chairman: Alfredo Terzoli, Rhodes University, South Africa

  • Invited paper: Technology for losers: re-equipping the excluded
    Erkki Allan Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S2.1 Towards Digital Blood-Banking *
    Vasileios Spyropoulos, Maria Botsivaly, Aris Tzavaras (Technological Education Institute of Athens, GR); Panagiotoula Spyropoulou (General Hospital of Piraeus Tzaneion, GR)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S2.2 Quality of Service management for ISP: A model and implementation methodology based on ITU-T Rec.802 framework *
    Eva Ibarrola (University of the Basque Country, ES); Jin Xiao (University of Waterloo, CA); Fidel Liberal, Armando Ferro (University of the Basque Country, ES)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S2.3 Enhanced Advertising for Next Generation Networks *
    Jose Simões, Thomas Magedanz (FOKUS Fraunhofer Institute, DE); Luca Lamorte, Moltchanov Boris, Carmen Criminisi (Telecom Italia, IT)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:50 Session 3 – Bridging the Digital Divide for the individual

Session chairman: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  • Invited paper: Interplay and implications of intellectual property and academic - Industry collaboration to foster digital inclusion
    Louis Masi, Dawn Tew (IBM Corporation)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S3.1 A model and system architecture for ubiquitous sensor network businesses *
    Masugi Inoue (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S3.2 Discrimination in NGN service markets: Opportunity or barrier to digital inclusion? *
    Fernando Beltran (University of Auckland, NZ); Lina Gomez (Centro de Investigacion de las Telecomunicaciones, CO)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S3.3 Global effort on Bridging the Digital Divide and the role of ICT standardization *
    Mario Canazza (National Telecommunications Agency, BR)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S3.4 Universal Digital Inclusion: Beyond Connectivity, Affordability and Capability *
    Mamello Thinyane (University of Fort Hare, ZA); Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, ZA)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
18:00 - 19:30 Poster session - Showcasing Digital Inclusion opportunities
19:30 - 21:00 Welcome reception (TBC)
An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award.
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Day 2, 1 September 2009 (Tuesday)
09:00 - 10:30 Session 4 – Network architectures today and tomorrow

Session chairman: Helmut Schink, NSN, Germany

  • S4.1 RoFSO: A universal platform for convergence of fiber and free-space optical communication networks  *
    Kamugisha Kazaura, Kazuhiko Wakamori, Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, JP); Takeshi Higashino, Katsutoshi Tsukamoto, Shozo Komaki (Osaka University, JP)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S4.2 An ID/Locator Split Architecture of Future Networks *
    Ved Kafle, Hideki Otsuki, Masugi Inoue (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S4.3 Mobile-NGN Architecture based on REST concept *
    Yoshitoshi Murata (Iwate Prefectural University, JP)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S4.4 Reliability and Scalability Analysis of Low Cost Long Distance IP-Based Wireless Networks
    Riccardo Stefanelli, Alessandro Galardini (iXem Labs, Politecnico di Torino, IT); Daniele Trinchero (Politecnico di Torino, IT)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Session 5 – Broadband for everyone

Session chairman: Thoru Asami, University of Tokyo, Japan

  • S5.1 Innovative broadband models for digital inclusion
    Supavadee Aramvith (Chulalongkorn University, TH), Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, Akarapon Kongchanagul (National Telecommunications Commission, TH) Ekachai Phakdurong, Udomsak Luengkhwan, Chatpetch Bunyakate (Thaicom PLC, TH)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S5.2 Dynamic Resource Management for Downlink Multimedia Traffic in OFDMA Cellular Networks
    Dhananjay Kumar, Chellappan Chellappan, Srividhya Subramanian, Mariappan Pandian, Martheeswaran Mohandoss (Anna University, IN)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S5.3 Optical Transport Networks: from all-optical to digital
    Virgilio Puglia (IT); Olga Zadedyurina (University of Trento, IT)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Session 6 – Open and accessible services for digital inclusion

Session chairman: Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University, Japan

  • S6.1 iCanSee: A SIM Based Application for Digital Inclusion of the Visually Impaired Community
    Hannah Thinyane (Rhodes University, ZA); Mamello Thinyane (University of Fort Hare, ZA)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S6.2 An Asterisk-based framework for e-learning using open protocols and open source software
    Mosiuoa Tsietsi, Zelalem Shibeshi, Alfredo Terzoli, George Wells (Rhodes University, ZA)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S6.3 Innovations for Digital Inclusion: Leveraging Next Generation Networks for Human Development from the Bottom of the Pyramid
    Walter Brown (Monash South Africa, ZA). Presenter: Hannah Thinyane
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  (10 minutes in between sessions)
14:40 - 15:40 Session 7 – Public policies, standards and digital inclusion

Session chairman: Victoria Sukenik, Secretary of Communications, Argentina

  • S7.1 Government Role in Information and Communications Technology Innovations
    Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, US); DongBack Seo (University of Groningen, NL)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S7.2 New model for cost of equity evaluation in emerging markets: the telecommunication sector in Brazil
    Tullio Bertini (National Telecommunications Agency, BR)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
  • S7.3 ICT Standardization in China, the EU, and the US
    Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40 Session 8 - Best paper awards and Young Author recognition

Session chairman: Alicia Alonso Becerra, Rector, José A. Echeverría Superior Polytechnic Institute, Cuba

  • Presentation of Best award papers and Young author recognition
    [ PRESENTATION ]
16:40 - 17:30 Session 9 - Wrap-up

Session chairman: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, USA

  • Summary of the second Kaleidoscope conference (Panel with session chars)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
17:30 Closing by Yoichi Maeda, Kaleidoscope General Chairman / NTT
An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award.
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