Agenda

8:00 - 9:00 am

Registration

9:00 - 9:30

Sandy Carter, Vice President, SOA and WebSphere Strategy, IBM
[ Video]
Topic:  The new language of business and government: Service Oriented Architecture
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilitates operational excellence and innovation in today's business and government projects. Learn how to get started with this exciting approach to information technology through case studies and examples.

Keynote Speaker:  Mario Rivas, Corporate Vice President, Strategy Management, AMD [ Video]
Topic:  The Role of Digital Inclusion in Economic and Societal Development
Digital Inclusion is often considered a charitable endeavor, regarded more as an obligatory expense rather than a compelling opportunity.  Mario Rivas will discuss how AMD's 50x15 Initiative and the company's unique perspective on technology innovation are providing people around the world with the Internet access they need to foster growth and development in new and important ways.

Coffee break, networking, and visit exhibits

Expert Panel: Moderator, Steve Fox, Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld Media Group [ Video]
Topic:  Innovation: Open, Collaborative, Multi-disciplinary and Global 
Today, businesses that want to gain real competitive advantage and tangible results must innovate deeper-down to the core of their processes, connectivity and business models. To do so, businesses are leveraging the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to increase their flexibility and ability to innovate. These innovations are fueling economic growth in the private sector while increasing the efficiency of many public sector organizations.
Panel Members:

•	Don Boulia, Program Director, WebSphere Development, IBM [ Video]
•	Pamela Boyd, Director, Software Alliance, AMD [ Video]
•	John Polakowski, Vice President of Product Consulting, Cúram Software, Inc. [ Video]
•	Richard Semmes, Director of Strategy, Enovia, Dassault Systèmes [ Video]
•	Frantz Merine, Associate Dean for IT and InfoSec, Columbia Law School

Lunch

Welcome Back: Mahbub Ahmad, Chief, United Nations Web Services Section, DPI [ Video]

Special Guest Speaker: Curtis Sliwa, Founder and President, Guardian and Cyber Angels; 77 WABC Radio Personality for our Children and Communities [ Video]
Topic: On-line Safety for our Children and Communities
On October 9, 2006, Governor George E. Pataki announced an historic Partnership between the New York State Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure (CSCIC) and The Alliance of Guardian Angels, to promote online Cyber Safety in New York. Curtis will explain how this Strike Force will utilize the Guardian Angels' CyberAngels expertise to help schools and communities take charge of their own on-line safety, against sexual predators and on line scammers and hackers.

Michelle Dennedy, Chief Privacy Officer Sun Microsystems [ Video]
Topic:  Governance and Evaluation of Data 
This presentation will cover Governance and Evaluation of Data about People, how it is valued, and how it figures into Technology and Culture.  This information guides the business decision on who develops the Web, and what we all get out of the Web.

3:35 - 4:05

Coffee break, networking, and exhibits

4:05 - 4:25

Sanjay Agnani, Manager, Security Systems Division, Intelligent Wave USA [ Video]
Topic: Comprehensive Insider Threat Management
80% of annual data security losses come from "within" the organization.
This discussion will explain the need for and the importance of having a comprehensive insider threat management software platform to detect and stop in real time unauthorized transfers of digital assets by trusted insiders.

Expert Panel: Moderator, Ernest Schirmer, Vice-President, AIT Global; & Director, Technology Consulting, Acentech [ Video]
Topic: Securing the Multimedia Web Experience
As the Web evolves into a multimedia experience combines voice, text, music, video, still images, telecommunications, virtual reality, and online services opportunity to embed malicious software (Malware) in mainstream Internet content is greatly increased. Although anyone can be a victim of Malware, children, the elderly and casual users are particularly to a wide variety of malicious tricks and traps that have been integrated into everyday Internet usage panel will explore what techniques are most effective at protecting Internet users, the role of hardware devices, and what resources are available to help network administrators defend their networks from Malware.
Panel Members:

•	Glenn Brunette, Sun Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems [ Video]
•	Sanjay Agnani, Manager, Security Systems Division, Intelligent Wave USA [ Video]
•	Brad Hildreth, Vice President, Citigroup [ Video]
•	Jon I. Miller, CISSP, CISM, CISO, The City of New York, HRA; and, President, InfraGard, LI Chapter [ Video]
•	Judy Arteche-Carr, Chairperson, New York Chapter, the Society for Information Management

Gary Beach, Group Publisher CXO Media Inc. [ Video]
Endnotes -- Executive Overview of the Day's Proceedings, in a CIO Level Format 
This presentation will recap what CIO Magazine and AIT Global consider the key take-a-ways from today's speakers.

Late registration  

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, News and Media Division, DPI [ Video]

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jeff Cole, Director Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School for Communication
Title of presentation: "Surveying the Digital Future: The Impact of the Internet. Lessons Learned from Six Years in the Field." [ Video] [Presentation]

Coffee break, networking, and exhibits

Session I  Content Management Systems:
Moderator: Linda Tom, Head of Web Design and Development, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) [ Video]
Panel Members:

•	Linda Tom, Head of Web Design and Development, UNICEF [ Video] We will present an overview of our Content Management Solution, RedDot and briefly outline the process of how we chose our product. We will discuss our set up and how our partnership with the IT group allows us to maintain and develop our web products using RedDot. We will share highlights of our RedDot implementation and how it fits our organization needs, especially in remote offices. Finally we will end with the challenges of CMS and CMS maintenance.
•	Nanci St. John, Information Officer, OCHA, [ Video][Presentation]; Gary Pantin, OCHA [ Video][Presentation][handout]
•	Yenny Gamming, Web Manager, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London [ Video] [Presentation] The dynamic features created on ebrd.com using CMS functionality and metadata in addition to the challenges of CMS implementation, and how to facilitate decentralised publishing

Session II   Multilingual Web Sites
Moderator: Soad Sommereyns, Chief, English Unit, Web Services Section, DPI [ Video]
Panel Members:

•	Jane Wallace, Web Manager, World Health Organization (WHO), [ Video] [Presentation] Will discuss the challenges of presenting non-English content on a predominantly English site.
•	Carolina Ramirez, Web Language Manager Internet, Broadcast & Image Section Division of Communication, UNICEF, [ Video] [Presentation] requires QuickTime for viewing. Designing products for multilingual websites This presentation analyses what steps to take in order to successfully create Web products in different languages.
•	Zeina Afif, Multilingual Web coordinator, World Bank [ Video] [Presentation] Building multilingual websites can be challenging on all fronts: funding, support, technology, training, audience targeting, outreach, and content selection This presentation will cover how you trust, train and empower your community to participate in offering a truly multilingual experience to your audience.
•	Lucinia Bal-Doebel, Public Website Manager, OSCE Secretariat, Vienna [Presentation]
•	Stephen Katz, FAO [Presentation]

Lunch

Session III Outreach: measuring effectiveness
Alex H. McKenzie, Senior Information Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank: Lessons learned from campaign-based outreach approach and measuring effectiveness of outreach, linking outputs to outcomes. [ Video][Presentation]

Session IV Evaluating Ourselves
Panel of five Web4Dev Award Winners will present their sites and experiences focusing on 1. Best practices, 2. Lessons learnt, and 3. Recommendations for the future
Moderator: Craig Duncan, Information Management Unit, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat, Geneva [ Video]
Panel Members:

•	Sebastian Naidoo, Head of Unit (OIC), ReliefWeb New York: ReliefWeb's 2006 Evaluation - best practices and lessons learned [ Video] The presentation will look at the 6-month evaluation of the ReliefWeb project undertaken by independent consultants earlier this year, and focus on the achievements and challenges encountered.
•	Rodolfo M. Quevenco, Web Editor, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [ Video]
•	Kanti Kumar, Web Editor, United Nations Volunteers (UNV), Bonn [ Video]
•	Jane Wallace, Web Manager, WHO: an accessibility evaluation carried out on www.who.int and the changes being made to make the site more accessible [ Video]
•	Penelope Price, Senior External Relations Specialist - Webmaster, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADB), Manila [ Video]

Coffee break, networking, and exhibits

Session V Governance Models for Institutional Web Sites
Moderator: Lothar Wedekind, Senior Information Officer, IAEA [ Video][Presentation]
Panel Members:

•	Robert Valantin, Manager, Development Information, Information Solutions Group, World Bank [ Part I][ Part II][Presentation] Challenges in Web Govenance for a Complex International Organization: The Case of the World Bank The World Bank makes extensive (and productive) use of the Web as a key instrument for providing convenient access to its information and knowledge resources. It uses it as a medium for communications, for interaction, and increasingly for handling transactions. Although there are always areas for improvement, from the outside the Bank's Web seems to work well and as a reasonably coherent whole. But behind the browser interface that users see, there is a very complex set of relationships and accommodations, which actually work (hence the product you see), but which also raise many issues and pose challenges for governance of the Web.
•	Daria Lavrentieva, Regional Web Coordinator, South Asia, World Bank. [ Video][Presentation]
•	Nick Harrison, Editor At Large, World Bank Website. [Presentation]
•	Geoff Barnard, Head of Information, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK [ Video][Presentation] How IDS has approached/wrestled with this issue with some of our web-based knowledge services: a) practical management of the IDS site, which has multiple contributors and sub-brands b) governance of more portal-type sites where there are important issues over which content you chose to feature, and the overall 'balance' of the site.
•	Sharon Rusu, Coordinator, ReliefWeb [ Video] Will present a short case study of ReliefWeb governance issues.

Breakout sessions in Conference Room C

Sharing knowledge to communicate more effectively:
rethinking the UN's intranet
Linda Stoddart, Head Librarian, UN Dag Hammarskjold Library [Presentation]

Housekeeping announcements

Session VI   Workshop on Collaboration Tools, Blogs and Wikis
This session will invite participants to share stories on how they are effectively using web-based collaborative tools in their organisations, (online) communities and networks. Which tools worked in which contexts? How were the tools chosen? What are the lessons?
The organisers, Sarah Kerr, Technical Officer, Bellanet/International Development Research Centre (IDRC) [ Video][Presentation] and Mikel Maron, Freelance Web Developer, [ Part I] [ Part II] will initiate the session by sharing their own personal experiences. Sarah Kerr will share how collaborative tools (wikis, blogs, IM, mailing list, social bookmarking and project management) were used in the planning and execution of Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons (http://www.asia-commons.net). Mikel Maron, Freelance Web Developer, OpenStreetMap / GeoRSS / worldKit, [Presentation] will focus on the use of Wikis at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN INSTRAW).

Coffee break, networking, and exhibits

11:30 -  1:00 pm

Session VIII Future of Web4Dev, Where we go from here, and Closing Remarks  
Moderator: Ahmad Fawzi ,Director, UN News and Media Division, DPI and a representative from the 2007 host organization Moderated discussion with audience and conclusion of Conference [ Video]

Breakout sessions in Conference Room C

Volunteerism and ICT for Development
Elise Bouvet, Online Volunteering Programme Specialist, UN Volunteers Online Volunteering Service (www.onlinevolunteering.org) [Presentation]
Ms. Bouvet will discuss the interactions between volunteerism and ICT, as well as UNV's experience in this field, especially its online volunteering service.