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08:15 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening ceremony
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Gedeón Santos, President Executive Board, INDOTEL, Dominican Republic [Biography En I Es]
- Juan de los Santos, President of the Dominican Federation of Municipalities, FEDOMU, Dominican Republic [Biography Es]
- Miguel Alcaine, Head of Area Office, Honduras, ITU [Biography En I Es]
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| 09:15 - 09:30 | Photo session |
| 09:30 - 10:45 | Keynote speech - Héctor Mario Carril, Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 5 Regional Group for the Americas (SG5 RG-AMR): "Non- ionizing Electromagnetic Emissions and the expansion of Wireless Networks.- A solution for this latinamerican problem". [Biography En I Es] [Presentation 1 Es] [Presentation 2 Es]
Questions and Answers |
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10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Keynote speech - Miguel Alcaine, Head of Area Office, Honduras, ITU: "With information and communication technologies (ICTs) everywhere, how safe is EMF?" [Presetation Es]
Questions and Answers |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Session 1: The other side of ICT convergence - EMF exposure and issues
The proliferation of radiocommunication stations in urban and rural environments has raised public concerns regarding human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF). This session will address the importance of developing policies and standards for EMF management and thus, the need for international coordination in this area.
Moderator: Héctor Mario Carril, Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 5 Regional Group for the Americas (SG5 RG- AMR) - Katherine Méndez, Head of the Radio Access Network, Orange Dominicana: "Fostering development of mobile Networks and EMF risk perception" [Biography En I Es] [Presentation Es]
- Víctor Manuel Cruz Ornetta, Director, Research Institute of the Faculty of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru: "Latin America's Standards Protection against EMF" [Biography En I Es] [Presentation Es]
- Pedro Abad Terán, Executive Director of the Foundation for Telecommunications Telecom XXI, Ecuador: "Implementation of Regional Co-operative Work on Mobile Phones and Health: Fundamentals of a proposal with concrete actions".
[Biography En I Es] [Presentation Es]
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Questions & Answers- Session 1 |
| 14:30 - 16:00 |
Session 2: Issues related to EMF and the potential role of standards and policies in EMF management - Follow up actions for the country
There is much public concern about the issues surrounding the effects of electromagnetic fields on health. This session will act as a platform of discussion presenting some experiences from other Latin American countries and will identify some possible follow up actions to be undertaken in the Dominican Republic.
Moderator: Miguel Alcaine, Head of Area Office, Honduras, ITU - Roberto Berroa, Deputy Minister of Environmental Health, Ministry of Public Health, Dominican Republic: "Organizational structure of the Environmental Health Ministry and its role in EMF monitoring" [Biography En I Es] [Presentation Es]
- Daniel Moreno Pérez, Inspection engineer, INDOTEL, Dominican Republic: “Mobile communications: safe exposure limits of non-ionizing radiations”. [Biography En I Es] [Presentation Es]
- Gustavo Salazar Ramírez, Legal Adviser, General Direction of Control and Supervision of Communications, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Peru: "Management of infractructure installation problems in the Peruvian Telecommunication Sector" [Biography En I Es] [Presentation Es]
- Alex Tejada, Head of Planning and Engineering of Radio Spectrum, SIGET, El Salvador: "EMF- The importance of efficiently communicating the field measurements". [Biography En I Es] [Presentation Es]
Questions and Answers |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Wrap-up and closing remarks
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Miguel Alcaine, Head of Area Office, Honduras, ITU
- Alejandro Jiménez, Executive Director, INDOTEL, Dominican Republic [Biography En I Es]
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