10h00 |
Opening session:
Moderator:
H.E. Mr. C. Trevor Clarke, Ambassador, Permanent
Representative of Barbados to the WTO
Welcome and Keynote address:
Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director-General, WTO
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Opening Remarks:
Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General, ITU
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Mrs. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD
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10h30 |
Panel A: Telecommunications and ICT Economic and
commercial trends
Moderator:
Dr. Tracy Cohen, Commissioner, Independent Communications Authority of South
Africa
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ICT Market trends: Ms. Vanessa Gray,
Telecommunication/ICT Analyst, BDT, ITU
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Regulatory trends: Ms. Susan Schorr, Acting Head,
Regulatory and Market Environment Division, BDT, ITU
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ICT trade and policy trends: Ms. Scarlett Fondeur Gil, Associate
Economic Affairs Officer ICT & E-business Branch, SITE, UNCTAD
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11h45 |
Panel B:
Reflections on the BTA negotiations — Challenges for current negotiations
Moderator:
Mr. David Hartridge, White and Case International Trade, Geneva
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Mr. Karl Falkenberg, Deputy Director General, DG
Trade, European Commission
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Mr. Clovis Baptista, Executive Secretary,
Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL)
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Mr. Donald Abelson, Member, Sudbury International
LLC, United States
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Panel C: Regulatory
challenges and best practices |
15h00 |
Segment 1 — Moderator: Mr. Bill Scott, Director Trade
Policy, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy,
Australia
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Dr Ahmad HIASAT, CEO, Chairman of the Board of
Commissioners, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Jordan
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Mr. José Alfredo Rizek Vidal, Executive Director,
INDOTEL, Dominican Republic
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Dr. Dinesh Sharma, Executive,
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Nepal
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Mr. Po-Chou LIANG, Senior Engineer, NCC, Chinese Taipei
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16h30 |
Segment 2 — Moderator: Mr. Harald
Andreassen, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
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Mr. Ernest Ndukwe, CEO, Telecommunications
Regulatory Authority, Nigeria
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Mr. Shun Sakurai, Director General, Policy
Coordination, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications, Japan
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Mr. SO Tat Foon, Assistant Director, Office of the
Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong, China
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10h00 |
Panel D:
Positive network effects of expanding telecommunications services and networks:
economic opportunity, growth and social benefits
Moderator:
Ms. Shaista Sohail, Economic Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to
the WTO
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Economic contribution of mobile communications: Mrs. Harriet Berg,
Vice President Governmental Relations; Head of Brussels Office, Telenor
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Health sector implications: Mr. Toby Simon CEO,
Synergia, Bangalore, India
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Environmental impact: Mr. Tony Warren, Executive
Director for Regulatory Affairs, Telstra, Australia
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Economic and social benefits: Ms. Zainab Hussain
Siddiqui, Senior Project Manager, Ministry of Information Technology,
Pakistan
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11h30 |
Panel E: Corporate
perspective on developments in telecommunications markets
Moderator: Mr. Carlos López Blanco, Director, International Office, Telefónica,
Spain
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Mr. Srinivasa Addepalli, Senior Vice President,
Tata Communications, India
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Mr. Gordon Moir, Vice President, British Telecom, United
Kingdom
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Mr. Eric Loeb, Vice President, International
External and Regulatory Affairs AT&T Services, United States
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Mr. Michael O'Connor, Investment and Business
Development Officer, Orascom Telecom, Egypt
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15h00 |
Panel F:
Cross-cutting impact of reform — benefits of a liberalized telecommunications
market to other industries
Moderator:
Mr. Jonathan McHale, Deputy Assistant USTR, Telecommunications and
E-commerce, Office of the United States Trade Representative
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Outsourcing: Dr. Krishna Mukund Oolun,
Executive Director, ICT Authority, Mauritius
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E-agriculture: Mr. Daniel Annerose, CEO/Directeur
Général, Manobi S.A., Senegal
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Computer services: Mr. Gaurav Singh, Senior
Manager, NASSCOM, India
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Infrastructure investment: Dr. Robert Pepper,
Senior Managing Director, Global Advanced Technology Policy, CISCO Systems,
Inc, United States
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16h30 |
Panel G:
Regulatory challenges in addressing new and emerging services, technologies, and
e-commerce
Moderator:
Ms. Jacquelynn Ruff, Vice President, International Public Policy &
Regulatory Affairs, Verizon, United States
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Dr. Tim Kelly, Head, Standardization Policy
Division, ITU-T
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Mr. Clovis Baptista, Executive Secretary,
Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL)
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Mr. Christodoulos Protopapas, Managing
Director, HellasSat; Representative, European Satellite Operators Association,
Greece
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Mr. Nicklas Lundblad, European Policy
Manager, Google Nordics
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17h30 |
Panel H:
Challenges for future trade in telecommunications — WTO implications
Moderator:
Mr. Harsha V. Singh, Deputy Director-General, WTO
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Dr. Peter F. Cowhey, Associate Vice
Chancellor — International Affairs, Dean, School of International Relations
and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, United States
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Mr. Muhammad Hanafiah Abdul Rashid, Director
— International, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
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