Open Round Table held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.

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Thursday 23 October
8:00 - 9:15	Registration & Administrative Matters
9:15 - 9:45 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Round Table Preliminaries Hilda A. Cerdeira (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) [ Preface ] Opening Speech K.R. Sreenivasan, Director (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
Open Source Technologies, Training & Support Chair: Hilda A. Cerdeira
9:45 - 10:15 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Free and Open Source Software In Africa Gideon Hayford Chonia (Univ Zurich, Switzerland) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: HTML ] International Training Programs in Brussels Related to Scientific Information and ICT Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ]
10:15 - 10:45 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Virtual Campus and e-Learning Bogdan Logofatu (Univ Bucharest, Romania) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] A Proposal for ICT and Internet Support for Scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa Brian Porter (Intern.al Found. for Science, Sweden) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ]
	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	ICT Development: The Experience of the Abdus Salam ICTP Sandro M. Radicella (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] The S&T Collaborium Initiative: On-site Training and Projects Carlo Fonda (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PDF ] GATE/GTZ Initiatives for Adaptation, Dissemination and a Sustainable Use of Information Technologies Carolin Bothe-Tews (GTZ, Germany) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ]
12:00 - 12:30 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	www4mail: Helping to Bridge the Digital Divide Clement Onime (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: HTML ] = OPEN DISCUSSIONS =
Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Projects for Development Chair: Sandro M. Radicella
12:30 - 12:45 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	HINARI (WHO's Health Internet Work Access to Research Inititive): What Have We Learned? Barbara Aronson (WHO, Switzerland) [ Presentation: PPT ]
	Lunch
14:00 - 15:15 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Bandwidth Optimization in Developing Countries Universities Sara Gwynn (INASP, UK) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Improving a Website: The SciDev.Net Experience Barbara Keating (SciDev.Net, UK) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Estimation and Characterization of the Digital Divide Arturo Serrano Santoyo (CICESE, Mexico) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ]
15:15 - 16:00 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Use of ICT for Education, Research and Development in Ghana: Challenges, Opportunities and Potentials Joseph Intsiful (Inst. Math. Sci., Ghana), Philip Fosu Okyere (Inst. Math. Sci., Ghana) [ Paper: PDF - Presentations: PPT-1 and PPT-2 ] NITDA and ICT in Nigeria Gabriel O. Ajayi (NITDA, Nigeria) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] = OPEN DISCUSSIONS =
	Coffee Break
Virtual vs Real Laboratories, GRID Computing & Developing Countries Chair: Gideon H. Chonia
16:30 - 17:00 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Internet Devices for Scientific Applications Carlos Kavka (Univ. Nacional San Luis, Argentina) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PDF ] About UNESCO Virtual Laboratory Toolkit Clement Onime (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: HTML ]
17:00 - 18:00 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Developing Countries Access to Scientific Knowledge Ian Willers (CERN, Switzerland) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Benefits of International Scientific Collaborations for Developing Countries Arshad Ali (Nat. Univ. Sci. & Tec., Pakistan) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] = OPEN DISCUSSIONS =
19:30 - 21:00	Get Together Dinner

Friday 24 October
Monitoring the Digital Divide Chairs: Arturo Serrano & Gabriel O. Ajayi
9:00 - 10:30 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Measuring the Digital Divide with PingER [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] PingER History and Methology R. Les Cottrell (SLAC, USA) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Internet Performance to Africa R. Les Cottrell (SLAC, USA), Enrique Canessa (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PDF ] Network Connectivity in Africa - The Current Status Mike Jensen (Consultant/IDRC, South Africa) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ]
	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Challenges for Sustainable Rural Networking in Solomon Islands; The People First Network David Leeming (PFnet, Solomon Islands) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Experiences with the Digital Divide in Latin America Heidi L. Alvarez, Julio E. Ibarra (Florida Int. Univ., USA) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ]
11:45 - 12:45 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Creating NREN's in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Region Henk van Linde (Silk Highway Board, NATO) [ Presentation: PPT ] Digital Divide Inside Europe David Williams (CERN, Switzerland) [ Presentation: PPT ] = OPEN DISCUSSIONS =
	Lunch
Open Scientific Contents, Initiatives from NGO's & Publishers Chair: Sara Gwynn
14:00 - 15:00 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Access to Scientific Knowledge: the Argentinean Scenario Alejandra T. Chavez Flores (Nat. Atom. Ener. Comm., Argentina) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Collaborium.NET - Portal of Open Source Software & Open Contents Simone Grassi (Cisbic snc, Italy) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] eJDS: Free On-line Access to Scientific Knowledge Hilda. A. Cerdeira (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: HTML ] The FAO David Lubin Memorial Library, AGORA and Information for Developing Countries Jane Wu (FAO, Rome, Italy) [ Paper: PDF ]
15:00 - 16:00 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Blackwell Publishing's Developing World Initiatives Emily Gillingham (Blackwell Publishing, UK) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Access to APS Journals and the Digital Divide Robert Kelly (Amer. Phys. Soc., USA) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] Collaboration: The Key to Unlock Open Access Publication Frederick J. Friend (Consultant, OSI) [ Paper: PDF - Presentation: PPT ] DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals Jörgen Eriksson (Lund Univ. Libraries, Sweden) [ Presentation: PPT ]
	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	PLoS - Public Library of Science Mark Patterson (European Bioinformatics Inst., UK) [ Paper: PDF - Presen tation: PPT ] = FINAL OPEN DISCUSSIONS =
17:30 - 18:00 VIDEO RECORDS of this session	Concluding Remarks Hilda A. Cerdeira (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) Sandro M. Radicella (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
18:00	United Nations (UN) Day celebration - Invitation