Emerging Technologies News Portugal Participates in the OECD High Level Conference: ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change Portugal Participates in the OECD High Level Conference: ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
- 27/05/2009
The High-level OECD Conference: ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change takes place on 27th -28th May 2009 in Helsingør, Denmark. It was jointly organised by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the OECD in the scope of the OECD’s Information, Computers and Communication Policy Committee (ICCP) of which the President of UMIC, Luis Magalhães, is one of the Vice Presidents (see Meeting of the OECD’s Information, Computers and Communication Policy Committee (57th meeting) and President of UMIC elected Vice President of the OECD's ICCP Committee).
Portugal took part at the Conference after a suggestion tabled by Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) to the OECD’s Information, Computers and Communication Policy Committee (ICCP) Secretariat, namely through Paulo Ferrão, Director of the MIT – Portugal Program, who presented an intervention on ICT innovations for sustainable urban infrastructures at the “Clean Technologies for Greener Urban Growth” session.
The outcomes of the Conference will contribute towards the OECD Council at Ministerial Level in June 2009 and will be particularly relevant for the UN Conference on Climate Change being held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 7th – 18th December in the scope of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. (see COP15 – Conference of the Parties 15 Quick Information and Danish host country COP15 website).
The Conference (see programme) was opened by the Secretary-General of the OECD, Angel Gurría, and by the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, followed by keynote presentations on the topic of “Defining Challenges” by Taegun Hyung from the Communications Committee of the Republic of Korea, Esko Aho, Executive Vice President of Nokia and former Prime Minister of Finland and Botaro Hirosaki, Senior Executive Vice President of the NEC.