Day 1 - April 30th

Opening Addresses by:

Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
Chairperson, Qatar Foundation
&
Mr. Koichiro Matsuura
Director General, UNESCO
"Al Mirqab Ballroom"

Day 2 - May 1st

Mir Asghar Husain
Director of Educational Policies and Strategies Division, UNESCO "From Access to Success: The Quantum Leap under the Global Action Plan for The Education For All"

Nour Dajani
Education Program Specialist, UNESCO "How can Education For All be achieved through Compulsory Education?"

Patricio Lopez
President of the Virtual University, Technologico De Monterrey, Distance and Community Based Learning "Experiences and Lessons from Using Distance Education"

May Rihani
Senior Vice President, Academy for Educational Development "The Intersection of Education, Gender and Employability"

Anna Karola
Director, The Learning Center , Qatar Foundation "Disability at College Level"

H. Thomas Hickerson  
Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies and Special Collections,  Cornell University , Ithaca , New York "The Role of Research Libraries in Enhancing Worldwide Access to Information Resources and Scholarly Publishing"

Joel Smith
Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer for Computing Services Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh "The Science of Learning and Implications for E-Learning Systems"

Anders Linde-Laursen
Virginia Commonwealth University , Qatar Campus "Internet Courses"

Mohammad Samaka
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Qatar University "E-learning"

Ian Weber
Texas A&M University "Using Portal Technology to Enhance Student Instructional Experiences"

Bahaa Darwish
Associate Professor Philosophy Program, Qatar University "Critical Thinking and Democracy"

Colin Hannaford  
Director of the Institute for Democracy from Mathematics, Oxford "Mathematics, Ethics and Democracy"

Hani Khoury
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Mercer University "The Socratic Methods and Adult Mathematics Education"

Eva Vasarhelyi
Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest "The Democratic Dimensions of Mathematics Education within Multicultural Societies"

Ilham Al-Qaradawi
Associate Professor, Physics Department , Qatar University "Challenges for Science Awareness and Education in the 21^st Century"

Discussion Corners
Experts and teachers discuss the implications for classrooms

Discussion Corner 1: Gender and Technologies
Moderator: Hoda Badran
Experts: 

• May Rihani
• Anna Karola
• Nour Dajani
• Gilane Elgewely
• Khawla Shaheen
• Omar Bizri

Discussion Corner 2: Learning Resources Center
Moderator: Jane A. Lindley
Experts:  

• Thomas Hickerson
• David Ayersman
• Joel Smith
• Stuart Bunt
• Adel Attou

Discussion Corner 3: Socratic Methods
Moderator: Eva Vasarhelyi
Experts:  

• Colin Hannaford
• Hani Khoury
• Bahaa Darwish
• Inari  Gronholm 
• Benjamin  Barber               
• Harriet Fulbright
• Lulwa Khalifa
• Farhan Nizami

Discussion Corner 4: Technology in the Classroom
Moderator: Elizabeth A. Alger
Experts:  

• Mohammad Samaka
• James Moody
• Eddie M. Denning
• Ian Weber
• Raj Reddy
• Mir Asghar Husain

Discussion Corner 5: Virtual Communities
Moderator: Ghada Gholam
Experts:  

• Patricio Lopez
• Ben Reilly
• Anders Linde-Laursen
• M. Bernardine Dias
• Emma Nicholson
• Mahmoud Bouneb
• Andrew Scott
• Sulieman Sulieman

Day 3 - May 2nd

Sheika Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Al Thani,
Chairperson, Reach Out To Asia "Reach Out To Asia Initiative"        

Omar Bizri             
Team Leader, Technology for Sustainable Development, United Nations, ESCWA "Technology for Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction"

Andrew Scott
Policy & Programmes Director, Schumacher Centre for Technology Development "Participatory Technology Development"

Jonathan Murray
World Wide Public Sector Technology Officer, Microsoft Corporation "The Role of Technology in Political, Social and Economic Development"

M. Bernardine Dias
Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh "Technology/Bridge World"

Mahmoud Bouneb
Executive General Manager, Al Jazeera Children's Channel "Is TV a Tool of Education?"

Abdulla Al-Najjar
President, Arab Science and Technology Foundation "Networking the Arab Scientific Community Can Bring Change to the Arab Countries"

Mir Asghar Husain
Director of Educational Policies and Strategies Division, UNESCO "Harnessing New Technologies for Educational Reform"

Sabah Al Haidous
Director of Education Institute, Supreme Education Council "The Use of Modern Technology to Enhance the Learning Environmnet in the Classroom"

Sulieman Sulieman
Program Specialist, STV and OIC, UNESCO"International and Arab Cooperation In Improving Science Education and Technology for Sustainable Development"

Salem Al-Naemi
Executive Director, Government Information Management Office, Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology "E-government Transformation in Qatar"

Discussion Corners
Experts and teachers discuss the implications for classrooms

Discussion Corner 1: e-Government - Citizenship Education
Moderator:  Somaya Al Madeed
Experts:  

• Patricio Lopez
• Emma Nicholson
• Mir Asghar Husain
• Farhan Nizami
• Benjamin Barber
• Bahaa Darwish
• Mohammad Samaka
• Eva Vasarhelyi
• Raj Reddy
• Harriet Fulbright
• Omar Bizri

Discussion Corner 2: Media & Education
Moderator: Mahmoud Bouneb
Experts:  

• Thomas Hickerson
• Anders Linde-Laursen
• Lulwa Khalifa
• Bassam Mansour
• Stuart Bunt
• M. Bernardine Dias
• Ian Weber

Discussion Corner 3: Restructuring Scientific Institutes
Moderator: Hani Khoury
Experts:  

• Antoine Zahlan
• Eddie Denning
• Sulieman Sulieman
• Abdulla Al Najjar
• Anna Karola
• Joel Smith
• Nour Dajani
• Adel Attou

Discussion Corner 4: Evaluating Change
Moderator:  Colin Hannaford
Experts:  

• Hamed Al-Hammami
• Khawla Shaheen
• Elizabeth Alger
• Ilham Al-Qaradawi
• Andrew Scott
• May Rihani
• Hoda Badran
• Inari Gronholm

Closing Note:
Formation of Task Forces

Themes for Task Forces:

1. How to improve access to education and information
2. How to use technology to facilitate learning
3. How to empower mathematical reasoning
4. How to use technology for institutional reform
5. How to use technology to promote community development