Day 1 10th of May 2005
Registration
08:00 Registration of participants
08:30 Welcome address by Professor Brazão Mazula, Rector of UEM
08:35 Address by Steve Song – Representing IDRC
08:40 Address by Per-Einar Troften – Representing Sida
08:45 Address by Astrid Dufborg – Chair UNICTTF WG
08:50 Address by Salomao Manhica – Chairman INCM & Executive President
ICT Policy Commission
08:55 Opening remarks by Hon. Venâncio Massingue, Minister Science and
Technology
Session: Pan
African Fiber backbone
09:10 Presentation by Anders Comsted,
Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden:
Pan African Fiber
Backbone. Is it possible?
09:30 Roy Steiner and Karanja Gakio, consultants for the IDRC and
Cyberplex Africa: Promoting African
Research & Education Networking –Internet Bandwidth Challenges and
Opportunities
09:50 Presentation by Rahul Tongia, Carnegie Mellon University, US:
Introducing the FiberAfrica Proposal – a
Leapfrog Open Access Network
10:10 Hans Eriksson, Royal Institute of Technologies, Sweden:
The
Future of Voice in the Internet
10:30 Presentation by Augusto de Sousa Fernando, Electricity of
Mozambique: Infrastrutura de Telecomunicacoes da EDM
Coffee Break
10:50 Coffee Served in the atrium of
the conference center
Session 2:
Chairperson: Francis Tusubira,
Makerere University
11:10 Presentation by Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California
Davis, United States : Fiber
Networks Around the World and A Proposal for Africa
11:30 Presentation by Rogério Lam, Ministry of Planning and Finance,
Mozambique
11:50 Presentation by Carl-Johan Orre, Department of informatics, Umeå
University : Walking the last mile-repaving the road through
mobile information and communication technologies ?
12:10 Presentation by Lars Glimbert, KTH, Sweden:
SPIDER -
Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions
Lunch
12:30 Lunch – Instituto de Formacao das Telecomunicacoes
Session 3: Promoting
African Research and Education Networking
Chairperson: Steve Song, IDRC
Connectivity Africa and Acacia Manager
14:00 Presentation by Kate Wild, independent consultant to IDRC on
survey amongst donors funding higher education :
A survey of investment in education &
research networking in Africa
14:20 Presentation by Santhi S. Kumaran, Kigali Institute for Science
and Technology
14:40 Presentation by Lis Levey, for the Partnership for Higher
Education in Africa
14:45 Presentation by Sandra Aluoch African Virtual University
15:05 Presentation by F.F.Tusubira, Makarere University, and
consultant to the Association of African Universities
: Bandwidth Initiative: Lessons,
Gaps and Emerging Directions
Coffee Break
15:25 Coffee served in the atrium of
the conference center
Session 4:
Promoting African Research and Education Networking (Continued)
Chairperson: Bjorn Pehrson,
Professor at KTH
15:55 Presentation by Geoff Daniel, correspondent for the Global VSAT
Forum, on the regulatory issues and access in each country
: Satellite Access in
Africa, Connectivity via integrated Networks
16:15 Presentation by Ben McGarry, Southern African Regional
Universities Association (SARUA) :
Higher Education’s leadership rôle in
providing leaders, developing new science and technology, stimulating
commerce, and reducing poverty in Southern Africa
16:35 Presentation by Olavi Trydhed, Sweden :
African Academic Backbone
16:55 Presentation by Margaret Ngwira:
The MALICO VSATs – A Consortium
connectivity solution for the Academic, Research and Development
Community in Malawi
17:15 End of Day 1
Dinner: 19:00
Gala Dinner at Kaya Kwanga
Day 2 11th of May 2005
Session 5: Open
Access Projects and Technologies
Chairperson: Astrid Dufborg,
Chairperson of UNICTTF WG
08:30 Presentation by Stelios Papadakis, Ministry of Transport and
Communications, Moz : IP
Networks:Making Open Access easier
08:50 Mozambique Voice Over IP Project, UEM and KTH :
Projecto: Voice over IP na UEM
09:10 Presentation by Bjorn Pehrson, Royal Institute of Technology,
KTH: The Role of Universities when
creating the African Network Society, Using
NRENs as Spearheads and Universities as Think Tanks
09:30 Presentation by Anders Comstedt, Royal Institute of Technology,
KTH: Rural telecommunications under the open access paradigm
09:50 Presentation by Terrence Brown, Royal Institute of Technology,
KTH :Entrepreneurs Needed
Coffee Break
10:10 Coffee served in the atrium of
the conference center
10:30 Group discussions
Group 1: Pan African Fiber
Backbone Issues (financial, regulatory and coordination issues)
Group 2: National Research and Education Networks and partnership for
affordable bandwidth access (financial, regulatory and coordination
issues)
Group 3: Consumer Power: How to Put the Consumer in the Driver Seat –
How Open is Open Access? Open to Whom ?
Lunch
12:30 Lunch served at Instituto das
Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique
Session 6:
Presentations of Group Discussions
Chairperson: Kate Wild
14:00 Group discussions presentations
14:05 Presentation and discussion of Group 1 conclusions
14:30 Presentation and discussion of Group 2 conclusions
14:55 Presentation and discussion of Group 3 conclusions
Coffee-Break
15:20 Coffee-Break
Conclusions and Recommendations
16:00 Conclusions presented by Steve Song
16:10 Vote of Thanks by Astrid Dufborg
16:15 Closing remarks by Prof. Sawyerr
16:20 Closing cocktail with Mozambican culture entertainment |
