About
- Invest resources in a wide spectrum of local initiatives that create and transport local content?
- Work with existing content market, host platforms and intermediaries to exchange and deliver community-oriented content?
- Provide incentives for local content?
- Strengthen the ‘collaboration’ capacities of organisations working with both ‘global’ and ‘local’ content development.
Participants / Invitees
- Public Institutes including Ministry of Information and Communications
- Representatives from Internet and IT industry
- Representatives from Academic and Research Institutes
- Internet Bloggers / Content Supplier
- Civil Society Organizations
- Mass Media
Agenda
TIME | SPEAKER & TOPIC |
14:00 -14:15 | Registration / Participants to be seated |
14:15 – 14:20 | Inaugural Ceremony |
14:20 – 14:25 | Welcome and Event highlights |
14:25 – 14:45 | Inauguration Speech by Chief Guest and speech |
14:45 – 15:00 | Opening Remarks: Rajnesh D Singh, Regional Director, ISOC Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau |
15:00 – 15:20 | Key Note: Osama Manzar, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation |
15:20 – 15.40 | Key Note: Subir Pradhananga, Chair, Free and Open Source (FOSS), Nepal |
15:40 – 16.00 | Key Note: Venki Nishtala, CTO, Rediff.com |
16:00 – 16.30 | Networking Break |
16:30 – 17:30 | Moderated Panel Discussion with: Hempal Shrestha, Local ICT4D expert (Moderator) Osama Manzar, Digital Empowerment Foundation Manohar K Bhattarai, Local ICT4D expert Binay Bohara, ISP Association of Nepal Allan B Tuladhar, Unlimited Technologies Pvt Ltd Ravi Karmacharya, Open Learning Exchange, Nepal |
17:30 – 18:00 | Question & Answer Session and Note of Thanks by the Chair, ISOC Nepal |
18:00 – 20:00 | Cocktail Reception |