Agenda

Day 1 - Thursday May 10, 2007
09:00 - 09:30 Registration

Welcome
Javier Velasco Mancebo
Government of Asturias, Spain

09:30 - 09:45 Welcome to FLOSSworld
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
FLOSS leader, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands

09:45 - 10:30

Carlos Castro Castro
Information Society General Director, Regional Ministry of
Infrastructures and Technological Development, Spain

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:45

East Asia Regional Workshop findings
Maoke Chen, China Education Research Network/Tsinghua University Beijing, China

Southern Asia Regional Workshop findings
Aparna Ramamurthy
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
& Agnes Ng, MIMOS Bhd, Malaysia

12:45-14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Africa Regional Workshop findings
Enver Ravat & Pumeza Ceza
University of the Western Cape and Meraka Institute, South Africa

15:30-17:00

Inter-regional differences in Software projects
Presentation, and comments from regional workshop rapporteurs

 

Day 2 - Friday, May 11, 2007

09:00-10:30

Human capacity building / skills development in open source developer countries
Presentation, and comments from regional workshop rapporteurs

Presentation of SELF project
Wouter Tebbens
SELF Project leader

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 12:45

Latin America Regional Workshop findings
NorbetoTorrera, Director USUARIA, Argentina

South Eastern Europe Regional Workshop findings
Julia Velkova, Technical FLOSS Coordinator, Internet Society Bulgaria, Bulgaria

12:45 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15 - 15:45

Government usage / attitudes to open source and open standards / interoperability
Presentation, and comments from regional workshop rapporteurs

15:45 - 16:45

General discussion on FLOSSWorld and Round table on future collaborations

16:45 -17:15

Conclusions & Closure
Rishab Ghosh