Digital Leapfrogs
Nicholas Negroponte

9:00

Overview of Digital Nations
Sandy Pentland and Mitchel Resnick slides

10:00

Break

10:30

Research Themes
Learning (David Cavallo and Bakhtiar Mikhak) slides
Community (Brian Smith) slides
Multicultural Computing (Justine Cassell) slides
Commerce (Michael Best) slides
Policy (Geoffrey Kirkman) slides
Health (Scott Manalis) slides
Low-Cost Technologies (Joe Jacobson)

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Open House

2:30

Technology and the Developing World
Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard Center for International Development
José María Figueres, former president of Costa Rica

3:15

Collaborating with the Media Lab
Eleonora Badilla-Saxe, Sustainable Development Foundation, Costa Rica
Javier Elguea Solís, Telmex, Mexico
Gail Breslow, Computer Clubhouse Network
Nicole McLaren, Junior Summit
Spiros Tzelepis, Junior Journal
Henoch Aguiar, Minister of Telecommunications, Argentina

4:15

Break

4:45

Media Lab 2.0
Walter Bender

5:00

Administrative issues and Q&A

5:30

Reception

6:30

Dinner
Liberating the Latent Learning Potential of the Planet (Seymour Papert)