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First
day of the meeting - 1 June 2006 |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Registration & Coffee |
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9:30 – 12:15 |
Opening Plenary
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12:15 – 13:15 |
Lunch |
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13:15 – 16:15 |
Parallel Session:
Digitization, growth and productivity
Session
Description:
What is the impact of ICTs on growth and productivity? Do ICTs explain
the productivity gap? Does creative destruction apply to ICT-intensive
sectors? How can countries benefit from ICTs to deal with recessions
better?
Rapporteur: Michael Minges - Telecommunications Management Group,
Washington D.C., USA
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13:15 – 16:15 |
Parallel Session:
Firm-level impact of ICT
Session Description:
How are firms using ICTs? How are they coping with the challenges of
ICT-based organisation? What factors determine ICTs' impact on firm
performance?
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16:15 – 16:45 |
Coffee Break |
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16:45 – 17:45 |
Cross-Cutting Panel Discussion
Session
Description:
This session presents a synthesis of the main findings and discussion points
emerging from the previous two Parallel Session.
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19:00 |
Dinner - After-dinner Speaker: Kevin Stiroh,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Biography/Presentation) |
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Second Day of
the Meeting - 2 June 2006 |
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8:30 –
11:30 |
Parallel Session:
Measuring Digital Opportunity
Session
Description:
What is the digital divide and how can it be measured? The WSIS Geneva
Plan of Action identified the need for follow-up and monitoring of digital
opportunities. How can we measure ICTs? How can indices be used
to do this? How should a composite index be structured? What is
the impact of new technologies on the relevance of the digital divide?
- Cheung-Moon Cho
(Biography) -
Korean Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion, Seoul, Republic
of Korea (Presentation)
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Michael Minges
(Biography) -
TMG, Inc.,
Washington DC,
USA (Presentation)
- Lilia Pérez-Chavolla
(Biography) –
National Regulatory Research
Institute,
Ohio State University, USA (Presentation)
- Larry Press
(Biography) –
California State University, USA
(Presentation)
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Fernando Suárez
(Biography) -
Boston University School of
Management,
Boston
University, Massachusetts, USA.
- Axel Pols
(Biography) -
European Information Technology
Observatory, Frankfurt, Germany (Presentation)
Rapporteur:
Dr. Tim Kelly - ITU's Strategy and Policy Unit,
Geneva, Switzerland.
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8:30 – 11:30 |
Parallel Session:
Industry-level impact of ICTs
Session
Description:
Why is it that ICTs are transforming some sectors and not others? How
do ICTs change the boundaries of organisations? How do they affect the
nature and structure of Value Chains? To what extent have they helped
"the Global Enterprise" (e.g. through offshoring)?
- Stephen Billinger
(Biography)
– London
Business School Team,
London, United Kingdom (Presentation)
- Stefano Brusoni (Biography)
- Bocconi University, Italy (Presentation)
- Alfonso Gambardella (Biography)
- Bocconi University, Italy (Presentation)
- Michael
G. Jacobides
(Biography)
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London
Business School Team,
London, United Kingdom (Presentation
I /
Presentation II)
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Nikolaos
Pisanias
(Biography)
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London Business School,
London, United
Kingdom (Presentation)
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Christopher Tucci
(Biography)
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Lausanne (Presentation)
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Kannan Srikanth (Biography) -
London Business School, London, United Kingdom (Presentation)
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Cross-Cutting Panel Discussion
Session
Description:
This session presents a synthesis of the main findings and discussion points
emerging from the previous two Parallel Session.
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Closing Plenary and Wrap-Up
Session
Description:
The Chairman will summarise the main outcomes and findings emerging from the
conference and will contribute some closing insights on the benefits and
challenges offered by ICTs.
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13:00 |
Conference closes |
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