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Global Foundation for Democracy and Development - GFDD
Program

Agenda
April 25    and    April 26

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. Inauguration and Opening remarks
9:30 a.m. Discussion Panel on “Successful networks between NGOs, private and public sectors for a quality education”

Microsoft
Ana Virginia Quesada
, Omar Dengo Foundation (Costa Rica)
11:10 a.m. Coffee Break
11:20 a.m. Cont. Discussion Panel on “Successful networks between NGOs, private and public sectors for a quality education”

Paul Goris, Education and Technology Coordinator, FUNGLODE
Cristian Matias, Educational Technologies Director, Ministry of Education of Dominican Republic
Marta Lewis de Cardozo, Gabriel Lewis Gallardo Foundation (Panama)
Patricia de Paiz, Sergio A. Paiz Foundation (Guatemala)
Carlos Monroy, Salvador del Mundo Foundation (El Salvador)
1:00 p.m. Lunch break
2:30 p.m. Panel discussion on “ICT trainings for employment”

Nilo Menezes 
Paulo Feitoza Foundation (Brazil)
Susana Done, “Enter connected”, Sur Futuro Foundation (Dominican Republic)
Oscar Melgen and Rafael Dietsh, Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Dominican Republic)

Place: FUNGLODE Auditorium

2:30 p.m. Workshop on Digital Classrooms

Rafael Gonzalez, Under Secretary fro Inter-institutional relations, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Dominican Republic)
Anthony Tejada, Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Dominican Republic)
Alvaro Velmar, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)

Place: Second floor FUNGLODE
4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. Panel discussion on “Introducing ICTs as part of community development”

Victoria Cruz, Social Development Manager, Women in Development (Dominican Republic)
Magnus Sundset
Americas Technological Institute (ITLA)(Dominican Republic)
Laura Encarnación,
CTC Executive Coordinator, First Lady Office (Dominican Republic)
Susana Doñé,
Padre Las Casas Center for Reading and Cultural Promotion"
Sur Futuro Foundation (Dominican Republic)
6:00 p.m. End of first day sessions

                                  Wednesday, April 26, 2006

9:00 a.m. Panel discussion on “Portals as a support for education and information transfer”. Univirtual Global Dominicana.

Eng. Semiramis de Miranda 
Univirtual Global Dominicana- Virtual University Project of Dominican Republic
Dr. Lorenzo Guadamus, Advisor, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Dominican Republic)
Cristian Matías
Ministry of Education, Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL).
Maria Abreu

Dominicanaonline.org - Dominican Republic Portal


Place: FUNGLODE Auditorium
9:00 a.m. Panel discussion on “Internet II: Tele-education in the 21st Century”

Ernesto Rubi
Ampath, FIU
Ligia Amada Melo, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Dominican Republic)
Rafael Bello, Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Dominican Republic)
Radhames Mejia, Vice Dean, PUCMM (Dominican Republic)
Luis R. Furlán
Director of CLARA and President of RAGIE (Guatemala)

Place: Second floor FUNGLODE
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Panel discussion on “Technological training as a development tool: successful cases”

José María Antón
Iberoamerican Institute - Virtual Educa director (Spain)
Margarita Brache
the Institute of Technology for the Americas / ITLA-INDOTEL (Dominican Republic)
Gervacia Valenzuela Sosa
National Magistrate School (Dominican Republic)
Alianza ONG (Dominican Republic)
12:30 p.m. Formal presentation of Virtual Educa Caribe
1:00 p.m. Lunch break
2:30 p.m. Panel discussion on “Importance of audiovisual resources in human resources trainings”

Gerardo Ojeda, Iberoamerican Educational Television Association (Spain)
Eduardo Garcia, Radio phonic School (Dominican Republic)
Irene Hardy de Gómez
AME Program - Cisneros Foundation (Venezuela)

Place: FUNGLODE Auditorium
2:30 p.m. Panel discussion on “Tele-medicine”

Dr. Héctor Otero
Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (Dominican Republic)
Dr. Fernando Rojas
Epidemiology hospital Toribio Bencosme de Moca (República Dominicana)
Dr. Alejandro Domínguez Brito
Tele radiology (República Dominicana)
Lucero Arboleda, INTEC

Place: Second floor FUNGLODE
4:00 p.m. Coffee break
4:30 p.m. Presentation on “Entrepreneurs for education”

Maria Ignacia Arcaya
Canal Clase, Fundación Cisneros (Venezuela)
Arturo Pérez
MICROSOFT (Dominican Republic)
Wilmara Messa
Paulo Feitoza Foundation (Brazil)

Place: FUNGLODE Auditorium

5:30 p.m. Closing remarks
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