eGov-July-2006-[23-26]-Vision 2010

23-25 August 2006 Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi

Vision 2010 Organisers

knowledge for change

Co-organisers

Department of Information Technology Government of India

Media partners

UN DP

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Supporting partners

Exhibitors

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Programme Advisiory Board M P Narayanan President CSDMS

R Chandrashekhar Additional Secretary, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India Chairman of the Board

Subash Khuntia Joint Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource and Development Government of India Co-chair of the Board

Ashis Sanyal Director, MoCIT Government of India

Aman Singh CEO, CHiPS Chhattisgarh

G. D. Gautama Principal Secretary IT, Government of West Bengal

N Vijayaditya Director General National Informatics Centre Government of India

N S Kalsi Secretary IT Government of Punjab

Prakash Kumar Joint Secretary Department of Earth Sciences Government of India

P H Kurian Secretary IT Government of Kerala

R. S. Sharma Secretary IT Government of Jharkhand

Renu Budhiraja Director, e-Governance Division MoCIT, Government of India

Syedain Abbasi Director, MoCIT Government of India

Sanjeev Gupta Secretary IT Government of Himachal Pradesh

S R Das Sr. Director, MoCIT Government of India

Otem Dai Commissioner (IT and S&T) Government of Arunachal Pradesh

Zohra Chatterji Principal Secretary IT & Electronics Govt. of Uttar Pradesh

Jaijit Bhattacharya Country Director, Govt. Strategy Sun Microsystems Pvt. Ltd.

Manas Chakrabarty Head Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited (HiWEL)

Manash Chakraborty CEO Learnet India Limited

Nivedan Sahani Vice President Govt & PSU Business Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited

Puneet Gupta Country Manager- Public Sector IBM India Ltd.

P Ravindranath Director- Govt. & Public Affairs HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd.

Rohit Kumar Country Head, Public Sector Microsoft

R. Ramki Director, Global Operations & Solutions SAP India Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Janey Vice President EMC Data Storage System, India

Shantanu Prakash Managing Director Educomp Solutions Ltd.

S P S Grover Senior Director Oracle India

Tarun Maliak Head Microsoft - Rural Computing Strategy India

Vijay Kumar Vice President NIIT India Ltd.

Vivek Aggarwal CEO Liqvid e-Learning Services Pvt. Ltd.

Vishal Gupta Director Total Learning Sources

Basheerhamad Shadrach IDRC

Veena Joshi Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Government Representatives Aruna Sunderrajan CEO, Common Service Centre Initiatives, Government of India

Industry Representatives

International Agencies Ashish Garg Country Coordinator GeSCI India

'egov India 2006' aims to focus mainly on how IT in public sector could be an instrument to increase India's competitiveness for fostering a leadership economy. It will address other important e-Governance issues reflecting present situation and future aspirations. It would also provide a platform to hear case studies and debate on the realities and strategies of e-Governance in India.

Key topics • •

National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) – Present Status and way forward Capacity Building for e-GovernanceSecure e-Government

Indian Telecentre Forum 2006 aims to discuss, and deliberate multi variate issues concerning policy, technology, best practices and business models relating to implementation and sustainability of rural ICT centres and their returns in terms of socio-economic development. The event is expected to follow a consultative mode, with due consideration for making it highly participatory and interactive in nature, bringing together the best of minds, thought leaders, practitioners and stakeholders from government, business and civil society.

The Digital Learning India 2006 conference aims to take stock of the progress made by India in using technologies as an enabler of education.

The conference will deliberate on the enabling policies and infrastructure, challenges of resources, identify the critical success factors that build and sustain initiatives in ICT in education, and the role of the school principals/teachers and strategies/ programmes to strengthen their capacities to achieve the goals of education.

Key topics •

National ICT in education policy

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Asian success stories in ICT in school education

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Supporting infrastructure for ICT in education connectivity, hardware, content

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Teachers capacity building for ICT integration in school education challenges and practices

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State Wide Area Network (SWAN)

Key topics • Common Service Centre (CSC) Initiative in India

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Workshop on e-Governance in Municipalities

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International Perspectives on Telecentres

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Standards and Interoperability

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Indian Telecentre movement

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Security

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Global Cross Cutting Session

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WiMax

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Private Sector Initiatives

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Alliances & Linkages for Successful Telecentre Networks

ICT in Sarva Shiksha Abhiayan- leadership reflections in states

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Distance education for non-formal capacity building opportunities for content, technology and service providers

Important Dates Last date for receipt of abstracts: 15th July 2006 Acceptance Notification: 20th July 2006 Last date for full papers: 4th August 2006 Final confirmation: 10th August 2006

Important Contacts For Exhibition Rakesh Tripathie (rakesh@csdms.in) Mo: +91-9899821364 For Registration Himanshu Kalra (himanshu@csdms.in) Mo: +91-9818485406

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Content, Connectivity & Capacity Building

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Mission 2007

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Monitoring & Evaluation Methodologies

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Measuring outcomes in ICTs in education

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Sustainability Issues & Lessons Learnt

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Strategies of scaling up ICT in education projects

Exhibition The ICT triple conference will host an exhibition of latest e-solutions, services, initiatives and case studies from across Asia and beyond. Professional service providers, IT vendors, consulting firms, government agencies and national/international development organisations involved in the ICT in Education domain are participating in the exhibition.

Exhibition Fee (per square meter)

Shell Scheme

INR 9800

Conference Registration Fee Conference

Academics/Institution

Govt.

NGO’s

Private

Overseas

Delegates

INR 3000

INR 4000

INR 5000

INR 7500

USD 300

Spot Registration

INR 4000

INR 5000

INR 7500

INR 10000

USD 400

The Delegate Registration entitles the individual to participate in all technical sessions, workshops, keynotes and plenary sessions and social functions for all three/any Digital Learning India 2006, egov India 2006 & Indian Telecentre Forum 2006 conferences.

Visit the following link to register online:

http://www.egovonline.net/egovindia/del_registration.asp

Organisers profile Organisers

Supporting partners

Centre for Science, Development and knowledge for change Media Studies (CSDMS) is a leading Asian non-governmental institution engaged in advocacy, research and community building in ICT for Development through capacity building and media initiatives. www.csdms.in

Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) was launched in Bangkok on Thursday 13 December 2001 at the 2001 UNESCO-ACEID conference with the objectives to support educational research and researchers in the Asia-Pacific region, to promote greater communication between researchers and policy makers, administrators and educational practitioners, to disseminate educational research findings and to support the development of educational research skills in the Asia-Pacific region. http://www.apera.org

GIS Development strives to promote and propagate the usage of geospatial technologies in various areas of development for the community at large. It remains dedicated to foster the growing network of those interested in geo-informatics worldwide and Asia in particular. www.GISdevelopment.net

Co-Organisers Department of Information Technology (DIT) under the Ministry of Information Technology, Department of Information Government of India is Technology Government of India the Central department responsible for all administrative functions relating to formulation, execution and implementation of IT policies in India. www.mit.gov.in UNDP is the United Nation’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. They are presently working in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national

UN DP

development challenges. www.undp.org.in.

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) G-4, Sector 39 Noida - 201301, India Tel. : +91-120-2502181- 87 Fax: +91-120-2500060 Web: www.egovonline.net/egovindia Email: info@egovonline.net

Bellanet promotes and facilitates effective collaboration within the international community, especially through the use of ICTs. Bellanet aims to support effective development practice by sharing its expertise in information and communication technologies as well as its skills in facilitating organizational learning and knowledge sharing. Bellanet delivers its program through three main Program Lines - Online Communities, Knowledge Sharing and Open Development. Together they represent key approaches to building institutional and individual collaboration skills and maximizing the potential of ICTs to support collaborative development work.

In addition to this, three important crosscutting areas are also considered and woven into all aspects of Bellanet’s work: Gender Equality, Capacity Development, and Monitoring and Evaluation.

www.bellanet.org global e-schools and communities initiative (gesci) is an initiative of the UN ® ICT Task Force that aims to improve education as a cornerstone of sustainable socio-economic development and a key mechanism for enabling people to share a country’s prosperity. The organisation is working towards providing ICT platform for schools, support for training and capacity building and monitoring/reporting of various educational ICT projects. www.gesci.org.

Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) was set up in 1998 with a mission to ‘Promote Internet for the benefit of all’. With the formal announcement of Internet privatization in India, ISPAI had taken a leading role in monitoring the process in the country. ISPAI seeks opportunities to encourage and promote the use of Internet and

IT enabled services, such as E-commerce, eGovernance, Health Care and Distance Learning www.ispai.com.

Korean Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion (KADO) was founded in 1984 as Information Communication Training Center and in 2005, it is Designated as the Specialized National Agency for Knowledge Information Resource Management in Korea with a vision of systematic and comprehensive digital gap reduction among social class, region, age and nation groups and improvement of information welfare for the deprived in particular and the public in general. www.kado.or.kr Plan International, a child-centred development organisation works with 1.3 million children, their families and communities in developing countries all over the world, implementing projects at the grassroots level in education, health, water and sanitation, incomegeneration and cross-cultural communication. Plan works across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, in communities where many struggle to meet their basic needs. www.plan-internatinal.org Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is Switzerland’s international cooperation agency within the Swiss Foreign Ministry. Together with other federal offices, SDC is responsible for overall coordination of development activities and cooperation with Eastern Europe, as well as humanitarian aid. www.sdc.admin.ch The telecentre.org is an initiative developed by the information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) program of International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Microsoft Unlimited Potential Program to support community telecentres across the world. www.telecentre.org USAID-India under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is an independent government agency of United States working in India with the objective of providing economic development and humanitarian assistance. USAID-India is working closely with the Indian Government on key areas of development pertaining to Disaster Management, Economic Growth, Energy and Environment, Equity and Health. http://www.usaid.gov/in