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DIGITAL NATIONS CONSORTIUM MEETING
JUNE 3rd, 2003 / 3 de junio de 2003

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT: VISIONS FOR CHANGE

TECNOLOGÍA Y DESARROLLO: VISIÓN PARA EL CAMBIO

 

9:00 Welcome
Dr. Gonzalo Córdoba, Secretary of Science and Technology, Panamá
9:30 Ms. Mireya Moscoso, President of Panamá
10:00

Keynote
by Nicholas Negroponte, Founder of the Media Lab

10:30 Break
11:00

Keynote
by Jose Maria Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica

11:30 Alexander (Sandy) Pentland, Connectivity and Sustainability
12:00 Mitchel Resnick, The Creative Society
12:30 Lunch
2:00

Panel: Learning, Innovation and Development:

- Astrid Fischel, Minister of Education, Costa Rica

- Gonzalo Córdoba, Secretary of Science and Technology, Panamá

- Eleonora Badilla-Saxe, moderator

3:00 David Cavallo, Large Scale Educational Reform
3:30 Break
4:00 Bakhtiar Mikhak, Technological Diversity: Empowering Grassroots Approaches to Development with Digital Technologies
4:30 Walter Bender, Communities Discover Their Voices
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