APIRA'10 - Internet Access for All - Let's Make it Happen

5th August 2010
Time	Theme	Speaker
9.00 hrs – 9.30 hrs	Registration
9.30 hrs - 10.30 hrs	Inaugural Session Lighting of Lamp Welcome Address by Address by Address by Address by Chief Guest Vote of Thanks	Mr. Rajesh Chharia, President-ISPAI Mr. N. Ravi Shanker, CEO –NIXI Mr. Naresh Ajwani, President-CCAOI Mr. R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary, DIT Mr. Satya N Gupta, Vice President -ISPAI
10.30 hrs - 11.00 hrs	Tea / Coffee Break
11.00 hrs - 12.30 hrs	Session on Impact of Broadband in general and with specific focus on Asia Pacific Region Socio-Economic Impact of Broadband in India	Mr. Virat Bhatia (Moderator )* Dr. Mahesh Uppal, Director Comfirst India Mr. Tetsuro Kobayashi, Asstt. Prof, National Institute of Tech, Japan Mr. Amitabh Singhal, Director – PIR (.org registry) Mr. Koay Hock Eng, Director- Malaysian Commn, & Multimedia Commission. * confirmation awaited
12.30 hrs - 13.30 hrs	Panel Discussions: Methodology/ Parameter for arriving at Internet /Broadband penetration in various countries	Ms. Arpita Pal Agarwal, Director – KPMG* Mr. S K Gupta – Advisor - CN, TRAI * Mr. Deepak Maheshwari, Director- Corp Affair, Microsoft India Prof Geunshik Han, Hanshin University, Korea * confirmation awaited.
13.30 hrs - 14.30 hrs	Lunch
14.30 hrs - 16.30 hrs	Country Specific Presentations Diffusion and Use of the Internet in Hong Kong Broadband – Targeting Rural India The Application of Web-Mining : A Dynamic Analysis of UGC By dint of Three-network Convergence, Internet will become more ubiquitous	Jonathan Zhu, City University of Hong Kong ISPAI Angus Cheong, Head Survey & Research : ERS e-Research, Macao Tang Liang, CNNIC, China
16.30 hrs - 17.00 hrs	Tea/ Coffee Break
17.00 hrs - 19.00 hrs	Household Use of Internet Survey Household Mobile Broadband Survey Development of the National Cyber Safety Index The effect of Internet news exposure and its effect on political knowledge in Japan Internet Broadband Usage Adoption in Taiwan	Mr. Koay Hock Eng, Dir. Malaysian Commn & Multimedia Commission Ms. Hye-In Song from KISA (Korea) Tetsuro Kobayashi (National Institute for Informatics), Japan Prof. Shian-Shyong Tseng Ms. Ai-chin Lu (TWNIC), Taiwan
19.00 hrs - 21.00 hrs	Dinner

6th August 2010
Time	Theme	Speaker
9.00 hrs – 9.30 hrs	Registration
9.30 hrs - 11.00 hrs	Non-Response adjustment fro the survey on Internet usage Support and develop the domain names category The development of Instant Messaging in China	Mr. Geunsik, Han from Han Sin University, Korea Mr. Manish Dalal, Vice President, VeriSign Asia Pacific Liu Xin CNNIC
11.00 hrs - 11.30 hrs	Tea / Coffee Break
11.30 hrs - 13.30 hrs	Panel Discussions: Internet Access for All – Let’s Make it Happen	Moderator – Member (T)- DOT * Dr. DPS Seth, President, IPTV India Forum Mr. Satya N. Gupta, Prof Rajat Kathuria, ICRIER Mr. B. C. Jain, Chair- ISOC Delhi Chapter Rep from Taiwan * confirmation awaited.
13.30 hrs - 14.30 hrs	Lunch

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