Preliminary Agenda

JANUS Workshop: Draft Agenda *The Digital Divide:* *Opportunities and Threats* *at the Verge of EU Enlargement* Friday, 23 January 2004, Brussels Centre Borchette, Rue Froissard 36, 1000 Brussels
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Time	Activity
0800	*Registration and Coffee*
0900	Welcome & Keynotes – The global digital divide	Welcome	Maarten Bottermann, Chairman of the day
0910		Welcome	Rosalie Zobel, Director, European Commission, DG Information Society Click here to view prestentation (pps 170kb)
0920		A global digital divide: a global market in delocalised services	Ursula Huws, Analytica and Institute for Employment Studies (Emergence) Click here to view prestentation (pps 222kb)
0950		Delocalising ICT services – the case of India	Milind Kamble, TATA Consultancy Services Click here to view prestentation (pps 296kb)
1020		Questions and answers
1040	Morning Coffee
1100	Session 1: Aspects of the Digital Divide in CEC countries	Benchmarking the national digital divide in Eastern and Western Europe	Tobias Hüsing, Empirica (SIBIS) Click here to view prestentation (pps 472kb)
		Uneven development in the Hungarian eEconomy: who are the winners and losers?	Csaba Mako, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Sociology Click here to view prestentation (pps 157kb)
		eGovernence as a tool to bride the digital divide:The Slovenian case	Jaro Berce, State Undersecretary, Government Office for European Affairs, Slovenia Click here to view prestentation (pps 980kb)
		Questions and answers
1230	Lunch
1400	Session 2: Hard and soft factors in the digital divide	Factors influencing access to and usage of ICTs in the EU	Conor Mc Caffery, Research Fellow, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), National University or Ireland
		Skills and the digital divide – a bridge over troubled water	Hanne Shapiro, DTI and Rand Europe Click here to view prestentation (pps 209kb)
		From digital divide to digital choice	Werner Korte, Empirica (SIBIS, STAR) Click here to view prestentation (pps 330kb)
		Questions and answers
1530	Afternoon Coffee
1600	Plenary Panel	An Agenda for a European Strategy	Athanassios Chrissafis, European Commission, DG Information Society Matthias Müller, Landesvertretung Sachsen, IANIS Network coordinator Jeremy Millard, DTI (BEEP/Prisma) Lidia Pola, European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs
1700	End

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