FORUM THEME

• Digital Lifestyle: This domain will explore current and future lifestyles and how they are shaped by ICTs. The focus of this domain will be on the demand side of the ICT sector, examining market trends, user behaviour and consumer preferences.
   

• Digital Ecosystems: The digital ecosystem is composed of many different kinds of companies which interlink, cooperate and compete to provide equipment, services and applications to users. The focus of this domain will be on the supply side of the industry and on the development of efficient business models.
    

• Digital Society: In our digital world, we are all obliged to share and harmoniously coexist, therefore we need policy oversight and independent regulation to help our world function. This domain will look at the challenges in maintaining a transparent regulatory environment and on building an information society for all. 

TOP NAMES TAKING PART

	Sanjiv Ahuja CEO, Orange		John Chambers CEO, Cisco Systems		Dan Elron Managing Partner, Communications Industry, Accenture
	Mark Hurd Chairman of the Board, CEO and President Hewlett-Packard Company		Paul Jacobs CEO, Qualcomm Inc.		Dr A Reza Jafari Chairman, World 06 Forum Advisory Committee & Managing Director, Intl, NeuStar
	Pieter Knook Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corporation		Richard Li Chairman, PCCW Ltd.		Sean Maloney Executive Vice President Intel Corporation
	Masao Nakamura President and CEO NTT DoCoMo Inc.		Nicholas Negroponte Professor, MIT and Chairman and founder, One Laptop per Child		Atsutoshi Nishida President and CEO Toshiba Corporation
	Eli M. Noam Professor, Finance & Economics and Director Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Columbia University		Tadashi Onodera President, KDDI		Viviane Reding Member of the European Commission
	H.E. Leonid D Reiman Minister of Information Technologies and Communications, Russian Federation		Paul Reynolds CEO, BT Wholesale		Patricia Russo Chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies
	Katsumasa Shinozuka President and CEO, OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd.		Carl-Henric Svanberg President and CEO, Ericsson		Hon. Henry Tang Financial Secretary, Government of the Hong Kong SAR
	Anthony S.K. Wong Commissioner, Innovation & Technology Commission (Hong Kong, SAR)		Joseph WP Wong Secretary of Commerce, Industry & Technology (Hong Kong, SAR)		Joe Wright Chairman of the Board Intelsat, Ltd.
	Kaoru Yano President, NEC CORP		Edward J. Zander Chairman & CEO, Motorola		Xunsheng Zuo Chief Executive Officer of China Netcom

HOT TOPICS ON THE AGENDA

The Forum at WORLD 2006 will provide a chance to discover how, what, when and why the latest ICTs are affecting our lives. Some of the key themes which will be explored at the Forum include:

Triple Play services, for example,  (where television, voice and Internet are delivered over the same 'pipe' from a single service provider) are becoming increasingly mainstream. Indeed some countries now offer multiple play services, by adding in mobile voice. But how should services such as these best be regulated? Priced? and marketed?

The quest to provide innovative digital content for ever more content-hungry consumers has brought together a whole new set of players. From broadcasters or record labels to hardware and software producers or credit card providers, all have a stake in the fast-growing digital content industry. But what are the greatest opportunities offered by this burgeoning industry? And what are the pitfalls for prospective new market entrants?

New wireless services such as WiMax or UWB (Ultrawideband) have the facility to transport large amounts of data over long distances, and are often put forward as cost-effective universal broadband access solutions for the future. But what is the true potential for these types of services? And how can they coexist alongside current 3G mobile networks for example. As we head closer to a truly 'ubiquitous' network society, where information can be accessed anywhere, anytime by anyone or thing what will be the best business models to promote widespread takeup of new technologies?

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