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Accessing Knowledge is key to social
and economic development. The use of
information and communication
technologies offers new
opportunities, but also risks
increasing existing knowledge gaps,
due to socio-economic, educational,
cultural, language and other
barriers. Disparities exist on the
level of access to relevant
information, as well as on the level
of capacities to create, transform
and share it.
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The panellists will discuss
different conception of what are
ethical and innovative ways of
sharing and creating knowledge.
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The session will combine a mix of
presentation and discussion in a
multistakeholder set-up. UNESCO’s
contact for this session is Cédric
Wachholz (wsis@unesco.org).
English
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French translation will be offered
for this panel.
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PANELISTS:
Crawford Beveridge
Crawford Beveridge, SUN
Microsystems, Executive Vice President
and Chairman for Europe, APAC and
Emerging Markets. Crawford W Beveridge
is a technology industry veteran with
more than 40 years of international
experience. His role as Executive Vice
President and Chairman, EMEA, APAC and
the Americas, is to take a long term
view and represent Sun's interests in
geographies outside of the US,
particularly in high growth geographies
or where Sun has significant investment,
such as the EU, Brazil, Russia, India
and China. Specifically he works with
governments on public policy issues in
an effort to ensure that there is a
level playing field in areas of emerging
technology policy. Of particular focus
are all areas of open - open standards,
open source, open media formats, privacy
and identity management,
interoperability, eco responsibility and
education.
Before joining Sun in 1985 as
vice-president corporate resources, he
held HR management positions in the
United States and Europe with Hewlett
Packard Company, Digital Equipment Corp
and Analog Devices Inc.
In 1991 Beveridge left Sun to become the
chief executive of Scottish Enterprise,
the lead economic development
organization for Scotland with more than
1,700 employees and an annual operating
budget in excess of $800 million. In
this role he oversaw business
development, venture capital, skills
development, exports, infrastructure and
inward investment.
After nine successful years Beveridge
returned to Sun in April 2000 as
executive vice president of People and
Places and Chief Human Resources
Officer. Beveridge is a non-executive
board member of Autodesk Inc., eSilicon,
and Scottish Equity Partners Ltd.
Beveridge holds a B.Sc. in Social
Sciences from the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland and an M.Sc. in
Industrial Administration from the
University of Bradford, England. He also
holds honorary Doctoral degrees from the
University of Edinburgh, Napier
University in Edinburgh and Robert
Gordons University, Aberdeen. He was
awarded a C.B.E. (Commander of the Order
of the British Empire) in the Queen's
New Years Honours list in 1995.
Hoda Baraka
Hoda Baraka
First Deputy
To Minister
Ministry of Communications & Information
Technology
Office Tel.: +2 02
35341006 - +2 02 35341008
Mobile: +2
010 5411083
e-mail:
hbaraka@mcit.gov.eq
Prof. Hoda Baraka, Ph.D.
For more than two decades, Prof. Hoda
Baraka has been an integral, innovative
and leading part of IT field in Egypt.
She is the First Deputy to Minister of
Communication and Information Technology
since 2006. She is an active member of
the education committee of the National
Democratic Party of Egypt and the
Strategic Council for UN-Global Alliance
for Information and Communication
Technologies and Development.
Prof. Baraka has been awarded the UNESCO
King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa prize for
the use of ICTs in Education, for her
contribution in the development and
enhancement of education in Egypt using
ICT. She is one of WEF/UNESCO
Partnership for Education Technical
Advisory Group on Capacity development.
She is also a member of WEF Global
Agenda Council for Technologies in
Education.
Dr. Baraka is a professor of Computer
Engineering at the Faculty of
Engineering, Cairo University. With
twenty five years of extensive
experience in the field of IT, she
successfully managed the implementation
of several national ICT for Development
projects in the fields of education,
e-administration, e-health, Arabic
digital content and Land Registration
systems. Her activities include
formulating effective Public Private
Partnerships, policies' development and
planning of ICT for Development, ICT
projects' implementation, monitoring and
evaluation and human resources
development.
Prof.
Baraka is also the National Director of
Egypt's ICT Trust Fund since 2002, which
is established to promote the use of ICT
for Development. In 2003, she was
appointed Director of ICT in Education
program. In 2006, she was chosen as the
Director for the Egyptian Education
Initiative, in addition to leading the
ICT-in-education activities for 100
schools project as a member of
Heliopolis Association.
Ellen
Tise
Ellen
Remona Tise
is currently the Senior Director,
Library and Information Services at the
University of Stellenbosch in South
Africa, and President-elect of IFLA for
the period 2007-2009. She will
automatically serve as IFLA President
for the period 2009-2011.
She previously held the position of
University Librarian at the University
of the Western Cape, Bellville, South
Africa, from March 2001 – December 2005.
Prior to this, she was Deputy University
Librarian (Client Services) at the
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. She also previously held
the position of Systems Librarian and
other positions at the University of the
Western Cape, Brakpan City Library and
the University of the Free State.
She has served on the Governing Board
and Executive Committee of the
International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
between 2001 and 2005; the IFLA Free
Access to Information and Freedom of
Expression (FAIFE) Advisory Board 2003 –
2005 and the IFLA Africa Section
Standing Committee (2001 - 2007). Ellen
was Chairperson of the National
Organising Committee for the IFLA 73rd
World Library and Information Congress,
held in Durban South Africa August
19-23, 2007.
Ms Tise’s experience at senior
management levels in the profession
includes being the first elected
President of the Library and Information
Association of South Africa (LIASA) from
1998 – 2002; Director of SABINET Board
from 2003 - 2007 & Sabinet Online Board
from 2003–; Deputy Chair of the South
African Library Leadership Programme
Governing Committee 2001-2004; Member of
the Advisory and Management Committee of
the LIASA-Carnegie Centre for
Information Career Development Project
from 2005-2006, OCLC Members Council
Delegate from October 2005 - May 2008,
and Member of the Access to Learning
Award Advisory Committee 2007– Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. She has also
served on various selection/review
panels such as the National Council for
Library and Information Services and the
Centre for Book of the National Library
of South Africa.
She is an Honorary Member of the Golden
Key International Honour Society, as
well as of the Library and Information
Association of South Africa.She has
published various articles in
professional journals and is a regular
speaker at
national and international conferences,
seminars, symposia, etc.
Dr. Hans F. Hoffmann
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23.05.1942 |
born in Bad Warmbrunn/Schlesien,
German nationality, married to
Inge Hoffmann-van Soest, 4
children; PhD (physics, Bonn
University/Germany). |
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1972 - 2007 |
CERN staff (cern.ch). |
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1972-1985 |
Integrating particle physics
experiments with novel
accelerators (ISR, S-p pbar-S);Technical
Coordinator of UA1, an
experimental collaboration of
200 scientists of which the
scientific leader, Prof. Carlo
Rubbia, obtained the Nobel Prize
for discovering the carriers of
weak interactions in 1984. |
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1985-1989 |
Director "Central Services"
(including computing); DESY (www.desy.de),
the German particle physics
institute in Hamburg, Germany. |
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1990-1993 |
Director “Technical Support";
CERN |
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1994-1997 |
Member of the European Science
and Technology Assembly,ESTA.
Publications, conference
contributions on: Particle
accelerators, detectors, physics
results, collaborative
engineering, technology
transfer; grid computing,
e-infrastructures, information
society, “open access”,
“e-science”, research/innovation
management.
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1994-1999 |
Technical Coordinator of ATLAS (cern.ch/atlas)
an international experimental
collaboration of 2000 scientists
from 160 institutes in 37
countries; |
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1999-2003 |
Director "Technology Transfer,
Scientific Computing",
responsible for launching Grid
computing at CERN (cern.ch/lcg,
cern.ch/egee)
and Technology Transfer. |
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2003-2005 |
Co-organiser of the CERN
participation to World Summit of
the Information Society, WSIS
with the events “Role of Science
in the information society” (cern.ch/rsis)
and “Networking in Africa”
http://cern.ch/event-africa-networking),
together with ITU, UNESCO,
UNCTAD. |
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June 2007 - today |
retired
from CERN, “honorary” member of
CERN. |
MODERATOR:
Abdul Waheed Khan
Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant
Director-General for Communication and
Information. As Assistant
Director-General for Communication and
Information of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), Abdul Waheed Khan
has lead UNESCO’s Communication and
Information Sector since 2001.
In this capacity, Dr. Khan is
responsible for advancing global
standard setting, establishing
international, regional and national
policies, and coordinating the
implementation of concrete projects for
harnessing the power of communication
and information for development.
He provides global leadership in the
promotion of freedom of expression and
press freedom, media independence and
pluralism, as well as the development of
communication and access to information
and knowledge through media and ICTs.
His responsibilities also include
fostering digital opportunities for
social and economic inclusion, building
alliances between public and private
sector initiatives in communication and
information, and mobilizing resources
for enhancing the scope of the
programmes of the Communication and
Information Sector.
Dr. Khan, who coordinated UNESCO’s
contribution to the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) (Geneva 2003
and Tunis 2005), represents UNESCO at
major international events and fora in
the field of information and
communication, such as the Steering
Committee of the Global Alliance for ICT
for Development (GAID) and the Executive
Committee of Global Knowledge
Partnership (GKP).
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