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

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

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