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MEETINGS
Round Table on ICT as an Enabler for Economic Development
Beirut, 29-30 April
2004
Meeting Documents
Meeting papers and presentations listed by session:
Setting the Stage
Day One: 29
April 2004
Opening remarks:
Ahmed Farahat,
Chief, ICT Division, ESCWA
Thomas Farole, Regional Director, Kaiser Associates
Round table context
and objectives:
Mervat Tallawy,
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, ESCWA
Ismail
S. Abdallah, Former Minister of Planning, President of the Third
World Forum, Egypt
Information and
Communication Technology as Development Enabler (1)
ICT as an Enabler for
Trade and Transport Development
Thomas Farole
Investing in the ICT
Sector in the ESCWA Region: The Experience of the Islamic
Corporation Ali Soliman
ESCWA experience in
trade facilitation Nabil Safwat
The case of
integrated transport Coll Hunter
Review of EDI-based
trade and transport operations Niels Rasmussen
Information and
Communication Technology as Development Enabler (2)
The socioeconomic
environment for ICT assimilation: Regional impediments
(Arabic) Essam Galal
ICT for poverty
reduction and employment creation in Western Asia Wajdi
Mattar
Knowledge-based industry
development in Oman - Ahmed Al Dheeb
ICT applications in the
Ministry of Finance of Egypt (Arabic) Mamdouh Shoaib
CyberPorts as regional
hubs for development
The Dube TradePort
Cyberport: ICT and Logistics in Integration for Economic
Development Mazen Khoury
Evolving from "e" to
"see" in the Web age Jacques Ekmekji
Public/Private ICT services
cooperation and benchmarking, towards economic development
Radwan Habli
E-commerce in Lebanon
Alain Jean
Empowering e-business
in Egypt: Facing the challenges Sherif Hashem
Bahrain Investors
Centre (Arabic) Eva Hasan
Background
presentation
ICT and Knowledge-Based Economy in the ESCWA
Region
ICT Division, ESCWA
Making Telecenters
Work Souheil Marine
Background papers
Palestine and the
Information Economy (Arabic) Hazem Qawasmi
The Strategic
Implementation of ICT Dynamics within Uncertainty of New Economy
to Facilitate Trade and Transport Ahmed S. Ragab
Forging a Regional
Partnership Initiative
Day Two: 30
April 2004
Round Table
Discussions and Interventions Around Key Elements of the Partnership
Main orientation and
thrust areas
Constituting components
Viability
The Road Ahead and Closing
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