B. Organizational Details

A. Outline

FromAugust 31, 2006 to September 1, the Digital Opportunity Forum 2006 will be held at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, the Republic of Korea.

The conference aims tobring together practitioners, researchers and experts from governments, regulatory agencies, and academic institutions from different countries, as well as from international and regional organizations, to commemorate the official inauguration of the Korea IT Learning Program (KOIL) alumni network as the “Digital Opportunity Forum”. The Conference will discuss two main themes: international cooperation in ICT development and the development and use of the Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) as an analytical policy tool.

The Conference will compriseseven sessions each of whichwill showcase ICT success stories and policies designed to enhance international cooperation and bridge the global Digital Divide. The forum will also examine new ways of using the DOI as a tool to assist policy-makers and regulators in their evaluation of policy and performance benchmarking.

B. Organizational details

Digital Opportunity Forum 2006

Venue: COEX Intercontinental Hotel, Seoul, Korea

Date: 31 August –1 September, 2006

Hosts

Ministry of Information and Communication(MIC) of the Republic of Korea

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Organizer

Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion(KADO)

Break

Keynote speeches / 11:00~12:20 / Keynote Speeches
● Status and Policy on the Global Digital Divide
- Unna Huh, President, ICU, Republic of Korea
●Bridging the Source of the Digital Divide
- Jeffrey James, Professor, TilburgUniversity, the Netherlands
●Bridging the Divide: Building Asia-Pacific
Capacity for Effective Reforms
- Rohan Samarajiva, Executive Director, Lirne Asia, Sri Lanka
12:20~14:00 / Luncheon
Session 1 / 14:00~15:15 / International Cooperation in e-Government
* Moderator: Joongho Ahn, Prof., Seoul National Univ.
●HaNoiE-GovDevelopmentinCooperationwithKorea
- Dao Ngoc Phong, Manager
Ha Noi Post & Telematics Department, Vietnam
●e-Government: The Mexican Experience
- Irak Lopez Davila, Head of Project
Infotec, Mexico
●Chile- A Unique Experience in Using IT Technologies
- Francisco Javier Leiva Martinez, National Public Rural
Telephony General Coordinator
Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Chile
15:15~15:30 / Coffee Break
Session 2 / 15:30~16:40 / International Cooperation in National Informatization Development
* Moderator: Sunggul Hong, Prof., KookminUniv.
● Cambodia ICT Development and International
Cooperation
- Chankrisna Kith, Deputy Director
National ICTDevelopment Authority, Cambodia
●ICT as an Enabler for Socio-Economic Development
- Tahir Hameed, PhD
Information and Communications University, Pakistan
●The National Information Communication Technology Strategy of Azerbaijan and Key Indicators on
Information Society Statistics
- Tofig Babayev, Director
Baku Scientific and Training Centre, Azerbaijan
16:40~17:00 / Coffee Break
Session 3 / 17:00~18:00 / The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)
* Moderator: Cheungmoon Cho, Director, KADO
● Introducing the DOI
- Phillippa Biggs, Economist, SPU, ITU
● World Information Society Report 2006
- Dr.Tim Kelly, Head, SPU, ITU
18:00~18:15 / Chairman: Wrap-ups
18:30~20:30 / Welcome Reception

1 September 2006

Time / Content (Title/Speaker)
09:00 ~9:30 / Registration
9:30~9:35 / Chairman: Opening

Session 4

/ 9:35~10:50 / International Cooperation in ICT Development
* Moderator: Nakyeon Lee, Former Prof., New York Polytechnic Univ.
● International Cooperation in the ICT field: Bridging the Digital Divide
- Sudhir Kumar Marwaha, Director
Ministry ofCommunicationsand Information Technology, India
●ICT Cooperation in Bulgaria
- Roumen Trifonov, Secretary
Coordination Council for Information Society, Bulgaria
●International Cooperation in ICT under the UN Support
- Oleksandr Larin, Consultant
UN office, Ukraine
●Tunisia ICT Status and International Cooperation in ICT Development
- Amine Mcharek,IT Engineer
Cert(Telecommunications Research & Studies), Tunisia
10:50 ~11:05 / Coffee Break
Session 5 / 11:05~12:30 / The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)
* Moderator: Phillippa Biggs, Economist, SPU, ITU
●e-tunisia: Measuring the Achievement
- Mohamed Said Ouerghi, Director
Ministry of Communication Technologies, Tunisia
●DOI Application, EgyptCase Study
- Taha Mohamed Shendy Aly Shendy, IT center Director
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Egypt
●Digital Opportunity Index Indicators (DOI) in Perú
- Bertha Umelia Rodriguez Jara, Economist
National Institute of Statistics & Informatics, Peru
● Application of the Digital Opportunity Index to Bulgaria
- Kamen Spassov, IT Organization Consultant
Bulbank, Bulgaria
12:30~14:00 / Luncheon
Session 6 / 14:00~15:25 / The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)
*Moderator: Michael Minges, Senior Market Analyst, TMG
●DOI Applied to Indonesia: Assessing ICT Policy & Regulatory Environment
- Divakar Goswami, Researcher
Lirne Asia, Indonesia
●Digital Opportunities in Pakistan: An Overview
- Joseph Wilson, Assistant Professor
Law & Policy at the LahoreUniversity, Pakistan
● The Case of the Philippines
- Lorraine Salazar, Assistant Professor
Institute of South East Asian Studies of Singapore, the Philippines
●Policy Implications from the Digital Opportunities Index (DOI) analysis of India
- Payal Malik, Assistant Professor
Delhi University, India
15:25~15:50 / Coffee Break
Session 7 / 15:50~17:20 / Developing a Policy Tool-kit for the DOI
* Moderator: Dr.Tim Kelly, SPU, ITU
● Development of DOI Based Policy Tool
- Cheung-Moon Cho, Director, KADO
● The Digital Opportunity Index as a Tool
for Policy Analysis
- Mr. Michael Minges, Senior Market Analyst, TMG
● Discussion
Closing / 17:20~18:00 / Closing Ceremony: Chairman

* The above programme schedule may be subjected to amendment, at the convenience of the speakers.