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Asian Telecentre Forum 2008 Conference Agenda
| Day I - 29 July 2008 | | Session 1: Tracking the Indian Telecentre Movement | | Time: 04:00 – 05:30 pm Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | | 
| Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai
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| Basheerhamad Shadrach, Sr Programme Officer, telecentre.org
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| Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, Managing Director & CEO (e-Governance), IL&FS, New Delhi
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| Ashish Sanyal, Sr Technical Director, Department of Information Technology, Government of India
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| D C Mishra, Sr Technical Director, National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, Government of India
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| Day II - 30 July 2008 | | Session 2: Open Conclave of Service Centre Agencies, State Designated Agencies and State IT Secretaries | | Time: 09:30 am – 11:00 am Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | | 
| R Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of India
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| S Abbasi, Sr Director, Department of Information Technology
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| R S Sharma, Principal Secretary IT, Government of Jharkhand
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| V S Kundu, Special Secretary IT, Government of Haryana
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| Parminder Singh, Director, eGOV Services, Noida, India
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| Nagendra Singhal, Assistant Vice President, ZOOM Developers, New Delhi, India
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| Anamoy Ranjan, Head, North India Operations, Comat Technologies, India
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| Ravi Kumar, Executive Director, Alternative for India Development, Jharkhand, India
Bio-data | | Session 3: Content, Services and Connectivity: Making the Connection | | Time: 11:30 am – 01:00 am Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | |  | Aruna Sundararajan, CEO, CSC Programme, IL&FS
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| Sandra Pandi, Project Officer, ICT Applications and Cybersecurity Division, ITU, Geneva
Bio-data Presentation | |  | Shahid Akbar, CEO, Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development Bio-data | |
| B Vijayalakshmi, Project Manager, India Development Gateway (InDG), India
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Bio-data | | Session 4: Telecentre Networks: Exploring the Market of Opportunities | | Time: 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | |
| Basheerhamad Shadrach, Sr Programme Officer, telecentre.org
Bio-data | | Panelists | |  | Mahmud Hasan, Chief Operating Officer, Bangladesh Telecentre Network
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Bio-data Presentation | | | Sudip Rajbhandari, Mission Swaabhimaan, Nepal
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| Angelo Juan Ramos, Chairperson, PhilCeCNet
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| Ganga Vidya, Co-ordinator, Grameen Gyan Abhiyan
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| Phan Huu Phong, Deputy Director, Vietnam Telecommunications Fund
Bio-data | |  | Karim Kasim, Egypt ICT Trust Fund, Egypt
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Bio-data | | Session 5: Sustainability of Telecentres: A Systemic Approach | | Time: 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | |  | Karishma Kiri, Director, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Bio-data | | Panelists | |  | Eric Spector, Executive Vice President, OneRoof, Inc., USA
Bio-data | |  | Satyan Mishra, Managing Director, Drishtee, India
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Bio-data | |  | Wilfred Varughese, SIFFS Community Information Centre, India
Bio-data | |  | Sultanur Reza, Head of Community Information Centres, Grameen Phone, Bangladesh
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| Karim Kasim, Egypt ICT Trust Fund
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| Day III - 31 July 2008 | | Session 6: Telecentre Academy: The Way Forward | | Time: 09:30 am – 11:00 am Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | | 
| Prof Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
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| Basheerhamad Shadrach, Sr Programme Officer, telecentre.org
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| Karishma Kiri, Director, Microsoft Corporation, USA
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| Melinda dP. Bandalaria, Associate Professor and Registrar, University of Philippines Open University
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| Ahmed M M Eisa, Sudan Telecentre Academy
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| George Varughese, President, Development Alternatives
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| Senthil Kumaran, Programme Director, Informatics Division, MSSRF, India
Bio-data | | Session 7: Innovative Telecentre Initiatives | | Time: 11:30 am – 01:00 am Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | |
| George Varughese, President, Development Alternatives
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| Praveen Manikpuri, Project Manager – Enterprise Development, TARAhaat
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| Pichandi Krishnamoorthy, Team Leader, Centre for Development Communication, DHAN Foundation
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| Geeta Malhotra, Country Director, READ India, New Delhi
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| Ram Gopal, Byrraju Foundation, Hyderabad
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| Chetan Sharma, Founder, Datamation Foundation Trust, New Delhi, India
Bio-data | | Session 8: Telecentres as Public Spaces | | Time: 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm Venue: Hall No.8, Ground Floor, Pragati Maidan | | Chair | |
| T R Raghunanthan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India
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| Ahmed M M Eisa, Founder, Gedaref Digital City Organisation, Sudan
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| Dalia El-Hazek, Project Co-ordinator, ICT4D Portfolio, UNDP Egypt
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| Melinda dP Bandalaria, Associate Professor and Registrar, University of Philippines Open University
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| Santanu Sengupta, Change Innovators Society, West Bengal
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| Raja Samuel, Lecturer, Madras School of Social Work, Chennai
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| Ratna Sudarshan, Director, Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST)
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| Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Portland State University
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