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7th World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Meeting

Cairo, Egypt, 3-5 March 2009

Agenda

3 March 2009
08.30 – 10.00	Delegates Registration
10.00 – 11.00	Opening Session Chair: Dr. N. El Shenawy, Director, Information Center, MCIT, Egypt Mr. T. Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt Mr. O. Othman, Minister of Economic Development, Egypt Mr. S. Al Basheer, Director, BDT/ITU - Arabic, English Implications of the Financial Crisis on the ICT Sector Mr. Mario Maniewicz, Chief, Policies and Strategies Department, BDT/ITU
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 – 12.30	Session 1: ICT Infrastructure and Access Indicators (ITU Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Handbook) Revision of ICT Infrastructure and Access Indicators Ms. E. Magpantay, ITU Open discussion
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch break
13.30 – 15.00	Session 2: ICT Infrastructure and Access Indicators (continued) OECD: Developing mobile/wireless broadband indicators Mr. T. Reynolds, OECD Experience and Challenges in Collecting Mobile Broadband Statistics in Japan Mr. A. Umino, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan Open discussion
15.00 – 15.15	Coffee break
15.15 – 17.00	Session 3: Benchmarking the Information Society ICT Development Index, ICT Price Basket Ms. S. Teltscher, ITU Mauritius the Cyber Island: Using ICT indices for policymaking Mr. V. Mauree, NCB, Mauritius Open discussion (end of Day 1)
17.00 – 18.00	Host country session (Annex 1)

4 March 2009
09.00 – 10.15	Session 1: ICT Household Statistics Chair: Dr. Ahmed Abd El Basset, Senior International Relations Expert, MCIT, Egypt Role of household surveys for collecting ICT statistics Ms. E. Magpantay, ITU Revised Core ICT Household Indicators Ms. S. Roberts, Consultant Open discussion
10.15 – 10.30	Coffee break
10.30 – 12.00	Session 2: ICT Household Statistics (Continued) Primary, Secondary and Administrative Data in Telecommunications: Case of Malaysia Mr. H. Koay, SKMM, Malaysia ICT Indicators for Households: Egypt’s experience Ms. N. El-Shenawy, MCIT and Mr. Bahi El-Din Mortagy, CAPMAS, Egypt Statistics on ICT use by households and individuals in Greece: The experience from the measurement of the eEurope2005 and i2010 action plans Mrs. Elli Pagourtzi, Greek Information Society, Greece Open discussion
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch break
13.00 – 14.30	Session 3: Global and Regional Perspectives, Measuring Impact Chair: Dr. Olfet Abd El Monsef, Vice President, National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development Ms. S. Teltscher, ITU Measuring the Economic Impact of ICT: A Methodological Survey Mr. V. Spieza, OECD Progress and challenges of measuring the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean Ms. M. Balboni , ECLAC Measuring progress: towards Information Societies in emerging Asia Ms. H. Galpaya , LIRNEasia Benchmarking the information society in the European Union Mr. A. Wirthmann , EUROSTAT Open discussion
14.30 – 14.45	Coffee break
14.45 – 16.30	Session 4: Capacity Building on ICT Statistics Chair: Eng. Mohamed Omran, Member of Advisory Board, MCIT, Egypt UNCTAD Manual on Business Statistics and training course Mr. R. Lang, UNCTAD ITU Manual on Household Statistics and training course Ms. D. Olaya, ITU COMESA Programme on E-readiness Assessment & Measuring Information Society Mr. A. Dafalla, COMESA ESCWA ICT Measurement work Mr. R. Zaatari, ESCWA Open discussion
19.00 – 21.00	Social Event (see Annex 2)

5 March 2009
09.30 – 11.00	Session 1: Measuring Impact of ICT on Employment (Joint Session with ITU Study Group Q21) Chair: Eng. Mahmoud Giwainy, Senior Advisor for Telecom Policies, MCIT, Egypt Moderator: Mr. Aboubakar Haman, Rapporteur, Study Group Q21/1 Employment statistics in telecoms: What could be gleaned if … Mr. R. Zachmann, ILO ICT: tools for job creation, destruction or transformation in the telecom sector Mr. L. Zylberberg, Orange France Telecom Impact of ICT on Employment and the Convergence Mr. Kato, UNI Telecom Global Union Open discussion
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 – 12.30	Session 2: Measuring Impact of ICT on Employment (Continued) Report of Study Group Q21: Measuring the Impact of ICT on Employment Mr. A. Haman, Rapporteur, Study Group Q21/1 Country experience: Cameroon Mr. NGA, Ministère des Postes et Télécommunications, Cameroon Incidence des télécoms/TIC sur la création d'emploi au Sénégal Mr. M. Amar, ARTP, Senegal Open discussion
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch break
13.30 – 15.00	Concluding Session Chair: Dr. N. El Shenawy, Director, Information Center, MCIT, Egypt Draft Summary of Meeting Ms. F. Lambert, ITU Date and venue of 8th WTI meeting Ms. S. Teltscher, ITU Closing Mr. Mario Maniewicz, Chief, Policies and Strategies Department, BDT/ITU

ANNEX 1

Special Panel on Egypt’s ICT Measurement Profile
(Host country session presented by International Organizations)

Chair: Dr. Amr Badawy, Executive President, National Telecom Regulatory Authority

Moderator: Dr. Nagwa Elshenawy, Director of Information Center, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

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