OPENING SPEECHES

• Mr. Sami Al-Basheer, Director BDT, ITU         English     Arabic   Spanish  Chinese  Russian French
   

• H.E. Mr. Adel LABIB, Governor of Alexandria                       Arabic

• Need for ICT in Community-Based Disaster Risk reduction: Case Studies in Bangladesh
  Prof. Muhammad Saidur RAHMAN, Director, Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC)

• Crises Management in Response to Oil Spills.
  Mr. Asraf SABET, Chairman & CEO & Mr. Ayman NAGUIB, General Advisory Division Head PESCO

• Role of Technology in Crises and Disaster Management in the 21st Century, E-Bench Model.(arabic)
  Prof. Fareed AL NAGGER, Consultant Professor of Management, Egypt

• An Overview on the global maritime distress and safety systems
  Prof. Mohamed ABU DAHAB.

• Humanitarian Coordination and Response in Disasters and Emergencies; an introduction by OCHA on main features, tools and mechanisms
  Mr. Ivo FREIJSEN, HEAD, UN-OCHA Regional Office.

• Amateur Radio as first Aid and Tool for Emergency Communications
  Dr. Seppo SISATTO

• Mechanism of Arab Coordination in Natural Disasters and Emergencies
  Dr. Gamal GABALLAH, Dept. of Sustainable Development and Environmnent, LAS

•  Personal Views and General Comments about International Coorporation on the prementioned issues.(arabic)
  Mrs. Youssra A. NASSIM, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador.

• The Effective use of HF/UHF/VHF/ Radio Communications in Disaster Relief Communications
   Mr. Robert KASCA, ICT Emergency officer- UN WFP, Rome. Presented by Mr. Alf ELLEFSEN, WFP Regional ICT Officer.

• Lessons learned in safety & security
  Mr. Robert ADOLPH, HEAD of Safety and Security Dept., UN Office.

• Data Communications in Emergency operations
  Mr. Stephen FAZIO, Chief Global Communications Officer, UNICEF/ Mr. Cherif GHALY, Chair of the UN Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications & the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster.

• Safety and Relief Management for non-Relief organizations
  Mr. Dag Neilsen, Director of Ericsson Response.

• Emergency Telecommunications in Humanitarian Relief Operations Using the Tampere Convention for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations.
  Mr. Cherif GHALY, Chair of the UN Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications & the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster.

• Personal views and General Comments about International Cooporation on the pre mentioned issues.(arabic)
  Mr. Mahmoud KABIL, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

SESSION 5
RISK REDUCTION IN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS

• Disaster Risk reduction & Disaster management, Need for Complementary  Approach
  Mr. Mostafa MOHAGHEGH, Regional Coordinator UN/ISDR

• Managing Emergency & Disasters caused by Chemicals in Aqaba special economic Zone. (arabic)
  Dr. Mazin Khalil HOUBSHEH, UNEP.

• Environmental Management System Telecom Companies, a case study

• Document  • Presentation
  Mr. Sherif ISSA, Senior Manager, Health and Environment Affairs, Mobinil

• E-Health and Telemedicine: Pakistan earthquakes as a case study
  Prof. Asif Zafar MALIK, MD, FCPS, FRCS, President Telemedecine Association of Pakistan

• Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Five Natural hazards in the Context of the WHO/EMRO Atlas of Disaster Risks as a step towards the Reduction of the Health Impact Related to Disasters
  Mr. Steeve EBENER, Project manager e-Health, WHO/HQ

• ICT support for WHO in Complex Emergencies: Regional perspective and Case Studies
  Mr. Khalid SHAMS, Communications Administrator, Inf. Tech & Tele. Dept., WHO/EMRO

• EMRO SHOC demo (arabic)
  Dr. Najeeb AL-SHORBAJI, Coordinator, Knowledge Management and Sharing, WHO/EMRO

• Use of Remote Sensing Techniques for National Disaster Monitoring and Management
  Dr. Mohamad RUKIEH, UNEP Expert

• Early Warning Case Study for the Al-Qurain Landfil Area Fires in Kuwait through using Geographic Information System Technology
  Ms. Huda AL-MUNAYES, System Analyst/Head of Technical Support Section, Environment Public authority, Kuwait

• Early Warning System for Alexandria against Tsunamis and Sea level rise
  Prof. Mohamed El-RAEY, Principal technical Advisor, CEDARE

• Earthquakes and Natural Disasters and the project of Arab Protecting Centre(arabic)

• Document    • Presentation                                                                                     Dr. Hamid AFRA, CNERIB, Algeria, LAS Expert

• Arab-SDIS: a Tool for Environmental management and Early Warning                Dr. Hossam ALLAM, Head, ICT for Development Unit, CEDARE

• Amateur Radio Communications in disaster Relief (arabic)
  Capt. M. LANDOULSI, Co-ordinator for Arabish Speaking Countries & Brazil, DARC

• Last mile hazard warning system (LM-HWS) in Sri Lanka
  Mr. Nuwan WAIDYANATHA, Project Manager, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka

• USAID - Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System
  Mr. Wisit ATIPAYAKOON, Specialist, ITU Asia Pacific.

• AGIBA Disaster early Warning and Emergency preparedness
  Mr. Mamdouh TOLBA, ITC GM & Mr. Atef MADKOUR, Health, Safety & Env. GM, AGIBA Petroleum Co.

• WHO Emergency Preparedness and Response; Regional Perspective
  Mr. Altaf MUSANI, Regional Advisor, EHA, WHO/EMRO

• Somalia case
  Mr. Irshad SHAIKH, WHO Office in Mogadishu

• Sudan case
  Dr. Saad El-Din Hussein HASSAN, Head of the EHA unit in MOH, Sudan

• Iran case
  Dr. Farzad PANAHI, Chief of Emergency management Centre in Iran.

• Management of Logistics in emergency and Disaster Situations: Use of SUMA Software as an example                                                                                      Eng. Victor MARTINEZ, Technical Officer, LSS Expert, FUNDESUMA.

• Ericsson Response: a player in International Relief Operations
  Mr. Dag Neilsen, Director of Ericsson Response.

• Reliable communications in Disasters
  Dr. Abd El Aziz BASSIOUNI, Business Development Director, Tele-Tech

• Mission critical User Needs
  Mr. Mostafa EL-AWAD, Manager, Radio Operations, SYSTEL

• Addressable radios for Emergency Alert (AREA): A WorldSpace solution for effective delivery of alerts.

• Document   ●Presentation                                                                                     Dr. S. RANGARAJAN, Senior VP, Engineering Solutions, presented by Mr. Greg ENGLERTH, Worldspace USA.

SESSION 10b: SPECIAL PARALLEL SESSION
SPECIAL PARALLEL SESSION ON AVIAN FLU AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA

• Current Situation of Avian influenza and Future Predictions
  Dr. John JABBOUR, Medical officer, International health relations, Emerging Diseases Unit, WHO/EMRO

• ICT Contingency Planning for Avian Flu
  Dr. Najeeb AL-SHORBAJI, Ph.D., Coordinator, knowledge management and sharing, WHO/EMRO

• ICT Emergency Preparedness: Avian Flu Preparedness Update
  Mr. Tony PAPPAS, Coordinator Customer Services Support, Information Technology and Telec. Dept., WHO/HQ

SESSION 11:
PUBLIC FIXED AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AND BROADCASTING NETWORKS IN DISASTER RELIEF

• The Social Role and the Socio-relationship of MTC Touch in the Lebanon crises in 2006
  Mrs. Rula ABU DAHER, Chief Technical officer, MTC Touch, Lebanon

• Re-establishment of Mobile Networks during disaster relief Operations
  Mr. Dag Neilsen, Director of Ericsson Response

• Use of Mobile Infrastructure in disaster recovery
  Dr. Salwa MUBARAK, Ph.D., Head of Risk management department, Mobinil, Egypt

SESSION 12:
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS FOR EMERGENCY SUPPORT IN THE ARAB REGION

• UNOSAT satellite imagery for all
  Mr. Alain Retiere, director, UNOSAT

• Automatic Self Deploying VSAT Antenna for Disaster Recovery
  Dr. mohamed EL- GHAMRY, CEO, EgyptSat

• How public & Satellite Sector collaboration can be Strengthened for Disaster Relief
  Mr. Davis HARTSHORN, Secretary general, Global VSAT Forum

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