Day 2

10 December: Day 2  - Ministerial meeting
08:45 – 09:45 Official opening of the ministerial Forum:

- Opening speeches by representatives of co-organizers:

Aly Abou-Sabaa, Vice-President, AfDB

Clément Duhaime, Administrator, OIF

John Davis, Vice President, INTEL

Dzingai Mutumbuka, Chairman, ADEA

- Welcome speech by Host Government Representative, Hon. Mongi Marzouk, Minister of Information & Communication Technology, Tunisia

- Signature of MoU between ADEA and Intel

09:45 – 10:15 Introductory speech: Trends in ICT in education: Africa & beyond - Anthony Solcito, Vice President WW Education, Microsoft

10:15 – 11:00

 Keynote speech: Smart media in education: a blessing or a curse? - Dr. Peck Cho, Distinguished Professor, CTL, Dongguk University

11:00 – 11:15  Coffee break
11:15 – 11:30

Recommendations from the high level policy workshop

11:30 – 13:00

Panel Session 1: Developing policies to leverage potentials of ICT for quality education for all

-    Moderator: Hamidou Boukary, Acting Executive Secretary, ADEA

-    Panelist 1: Côte d’Ivoire: Ministry of Education’s ICT strategy - Aboubacar Coulibaly, Advisor to the Minister in charge of ICT, Ministry of Education

-    Panelist 2: ICT integration in basic education: Lessons from Kenya’s Laptop Project – John Temba, Head, ICT For Education, Ministry of education, Kenya

-    Panelist 3: Argentina's ICT in education policy: Promoting social inclusion and South-South cooperation through IBERTIC - Diego Filmus, International cooperation specialist,

Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI)

-    Panelist 4: Leadership in policy development and strategy for effective ICT integration in learning and leaching - Jerome Morissey, CEO, Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI)

-    Panelists 5: From ROI to ROE: The important success factors for ICT in education strategies - Martin Rist, Education Business Manager Africa, Hewlett Packard

  
13:00 – 14:30

Lunch break – Conference Press

   
14:30 – 16:00
   Session 2: Ensuring equal access to digital resources and opening up education

-    Moderator: Papa-Youga Dieng, IFADEM Coordinator, OIF

-    Panelist 6: OIF’s MOOC initiative to promote OER - Robert Grégoire, Moncton University

   Panelist 7: Promote equal access to digital content and opening up education - Mar Mbodj, Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis, Senegal

-    Panelist 8: The Ibero-American network of educational resource portals - Laura Marés, Executive Secretary of RELPE, IBERTIC

-    Panelist 9 :  Addressing the missing keystone in implementing national ICT strategies: IP number resources and IPv6 - Mukom Akong Tamon, Training manager, AFRINIC

-    Panelist 10: Global engineering education resources and opportunities for all - María M. Larrondo Petrie, Executive Director, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of

Engineering Institutions

16:00 – 16:30    Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00

   Session 3: Mainstreaming the transformative power of mobile learning

-    Moderator: Chuka Aduba, Lead IT Expert, AfDB

-    Panelist 11: Teachers’ professional development in Madagascar – Mobile assisted training - Ralph Ankri, International Project Manager, Orange Labs

-    Panelist 12: Mobile phone literacy for women and girls: Lessons learnt from UNESCO case studies - Fengchun Miao, ICT in Education specialist, UNESCO

-    Panelist 13: Intel: Examples and impact of usage of mobile computers in education - Frederico Carvalho, EMEA Solution Architect, Intel

-    Panelist 14: How Finnish teachers harness the potentials of mobile learning – Satu Järvinen, Expert in Education Partnerships, OMNIA, The Joint Authority of Education in Espoo

Region, Finland

-    Panelist 15:  Mobile learning in Higher education in Africa - Kilemi Mwiria, Development Consultant, Kenya

19:30 – 21:30

    Cocktail diner sponsored by Hewlett-Packard