This morning, the Representative of New Technologies, Francisco Salas, and the Executive Secretary of the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF), Alain Clerc, presented the main event of the Summit of the Mediterranean Digital Space: SUMMIT OF MEDITERRANEAN TOWNS & LOCAL AUTHORITIES, that will be celebrated in the Palace of Congresses of Malaga on October 2nd & 3rd, under the motto “Innovative funding for a digital area in the Mediterranean”. At the event, organized jointly by the City Council of Malaga and the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF), in collaboration with the Club Malaga Valley, 350 City Council delegates of the Governments and main institutions of the countries of the Mediterranean will participate.
The Summit will look for the collaboration of companies and institutions to reduce the digital gap and promote the essential framework for the strengthening of technologies for information and communication (TIC), as well as the cooperation and the development of the region with the objective to make Malaga the Hub of the Digital Arena of the Mediterranean. One of the objectives of this Summit is the creation in Malaga of a Permanent Secretary of New Technologies for the Mediterranean, with the mandate to promote these projects and to hold an annual conference with the objective of creating a greater awareness of the advantages of the new technologies and of the way in which they can transform the activities and the life of the people.
Within the Summit of Cities and Local Governments of the Mediterranean the launch of the project “I am Mediterranean” will be made. The actor Antonio Banderas is part of the group of personalities and celebrities that will launch the project “I am Mediterranean”.
The Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF), made up of 25 charter members (15 national states, 8 cities and regions, an international organization and a private company), has the objective to eliminate the barriers to the access to Information Technology that exist between the richest countries and the developing countries, and to build a society that shares Information to everyone.
The City Council of Malaga is a founding member of the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF). In addition Malaga is the first Spanish city that belongs to this organisation as a member of its plenary session.
PROGRAMME
2nd October 2008
20:00 h. Welcome reception Offered by the Lord Mayor of Malaga at the Town Hall.
Presentation of Summit sponsors.
3rd October 2008
8:00 h. Participants documentation and accreditations
9:00 h. Opening ceremony.
Mr. Francisco de la Torre Prados, Lord Mayor of Malaga.
Representative of the Spanish Government.
Mrs. Rosa Torres Ruiz, Minister of Culture, Regional Council of Andalusia
Mr. Christos Zois, Vice Minister of the Interior, Government of Greece
Representative of the French Government and the EU.
Mr. Houlin Zhao, Vice General Secretary International Telecommunication Union
Mr. Brunson Mackinley, General Director International Organisation for Migration
10:00 h. Coffee break
10:30 h. First Round Table: “Digital Solidarity and the 1% Digital Solidarityprinciple “.
Moderated by:
Mr. Francisco Salas Márquez, Deputy Councillor for New Technologies, City Council of Malaga
Participants:
Mr. Alain Madelin, President World Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF):
Conference: “The financing of the digital solidarity and singular DSF projects”.
Mr. Philippe Douste-Blazy, Deputy Secretary General,
Conference: “Solidarity contributions for development and 1% digital solidarity principle to bridge the digital divide”.Mr. Houlin Zhao, Vice General Secretary International Telecommunication Union
Conference: “ICT as the critical driver of social and economic development, and ITU's key role at the heart of the global ICT sector”.
-Mr. Brunson Mackinley, General Director World Migration Organisation
Conference: “Migration: Mediterranean mobility”.
Mr. Jean Pouly, Director of the World Digital Solidarity Agency
Conference: “Role of local authorities and decentralize co-operation in bridging the digital divide”.
12:00 h. Conference: “Information society and the digital divide. Legal strategies to fund global access”.
Speaker: Mr. Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich.
Moderated by Mr. Alain Clerc, Executive Secretary of DSF.
12:30 h. Second Round table: “ Co-operations projects ”.
Moderated by:
Mr. Jean Pouly. Director of the World Digital Solidarity Agency
Mrs. Karima Ghribi, General Director. European Union and Transfrontier Cooperation, Development and International Cooperation Department of the Government of Tunis.
Mr. Gilles Berhault, President of TIC 21 and ACIDD,
Conference: “ICTs, Solidarity and Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean”.
Mr. Bernard Salomé, Representative Director of Alexandrina Library
Conference: “The innovative role of the Alexandrine Library in the digital world”.
Mr. André Jean Marc Loechel, President of Fondation Territoires de Demain.
Conference: “Mediterranean Union and the knowledge economy: new cooperation horizon”.
Mr. Francisco Salas Márquez, Deputy Councillor for New Technologies, City Council of Malaga.
Conference: “Co-operations projects between towns”.
13:30 h. Third Round table: “Mediterranean digital area opportunities for business area”.
Moderated by:
Mr. Javier Cremades, President Club Malaga Valley e-27
Mr. Carlos Moreira, General Director of WISeKey and OISTE
Mr. Jose A. Ondiviela García, Local & Regional Government Lead. Western Europe Public Sector Microsoft
Unicaja
Mr. José Blanco Arjona,
General Director INGENIA
Mr. Francisco J. Sánchez Lopez,
Bull
Mr. Felipe Romera Lubias,
General Director of the Trade Fairs and Congress centre of Andalusia
Mr. Selçuk Kiper,
General Director, Synopsis Creative, Turquie
Mr. Abel Linares Palacios,
Executive President, OESIA
Mr. Raghu Kilambi,
Chief Financial Officer Myscreen
14:30 h. Lunch
16:30 h. Panel of Cities: “Launching the digital area in the Mediterranean”.
Mr. Francisco de la Torre Prados, Mayor of Malaga.
Mr. Dahman Dirman, Mayor of Tangiers.
Mr. Hubert Julien Lafférière, Vice President City of Lyon and Grand Lyon.
Mrs. Marta Vincenzi, Mayoress of Genoa.
Mr. Pierre Maudet, Deputy Mayor of Geneva.
Mr. Ramón García Bragado, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona.
Mr. Serge Godard, Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand.
Moderated by Mr. Alain Clerc, Executive Secretary of DSF.
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