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eInclusion Ministerial Debate
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eInclusion Ministerial Debate
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, 2 & 3 December 2007
Video Streams of Plenary Sessions and of the Parallel Sessions Held in the Same Room
Sunday 2nd December
16:00: Welcome
- Welcome and Opening Statement
Minister José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal - The European e-Inclusion Initiative
Commissioner Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media - Sustainable and Inclusive Design – What do people really think?
Rodolfo Cattani, President of the European Disability Forum
16:30: Panel Debate and Audience Questions
- Panel Debate and Audience Questions
facilitated by Margaret Doyle, Contributing Editor, Economist Conferences
Panel:- e-Inclusion is Good Business, not just a social responsibility
Veli Sundbäck, Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Nokia Corporation - e-Accessibility legislation: help or hindrance?
Mark McGann, Director General, EICTA - The Fourth World economy: e-Inclusion for Social Change
Luc Soete, Professor MERIT / UNU Maastricht - Sustainable and Inclusive Design – What do people really think?
Rodolfo Cattani, President, European Disability Forum
- e-Inclusion is Good Business, not just a social responsibility
Monday 3rd December
09:00: Parallel Session: ICT & Disability
Chair: Professor Gerard Quinn, National University of Ireland
- Mind the gap - disability and the digital divide
Dan Pescod, International Campaigns Manager, Royal National Institute of Blind People - Three Strategies for Higher Education: Design for all education, assistive technology training and Rehabilitation Engineering Education
Francisco Godinho, Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Engineering Department - The Italian experience: key factors for the success of a law on eAccessibility,
Steven Sintini, eAccessibility expert, National Centre for Informatics in Public Administration (CNIPA) - Accessibility of digital TV, or how can accessibility problems be solved by users and industry
Renaud Di Francesco, Chairman, EICTA Broadcast Cluster Group - Debate
10:45: Parallel Session: Digital Literacy & Competencies
Chair: Prof dr Valerie Frissen, Senior strategist/Professor TNO ICT
- EC Digital Literacy Review
Emilie Normann, Chief Consultant, Danish Technology Institute - Social integration (via ICT) of immigrants and ethnical minorities
Pedro Calado, Director, Portuguese National High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue - Do partnerships work? The role of multi-stakeholder partnerships in delivering Digital literacy & competences
Elena Bonfiglioli, Director Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft Europe Middle East and Africa - The new Digital literacy: is the gap narrowing or broadening?
Tapio Varis, Professor at University of Tampere Finland and Unesco Chair in global e-learning
12:15: Keynote Address
- Cognitive Horizon - Are we including everyone?
John D Kemp, Partner, Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC
12:30: Closing Plenary
- e-Inclusion in Portugal
Luis Magalhães, President, UMIC – Knowledge Society Agency, Portugal - e-Inclusion 2008: Be a Part of it!
Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director General , Information Society and Media, European Commission - Closing Remarks from the Portuguese Presidency
Minister José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal - Closing Remarks from the incoming Slovenian Presidency
Minister Mojca Kucler Dolinar, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Slovenia