Opening Remarks

• Moderator: Phillip Hay, Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank
• Joy Phumaphi, Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank 
  [: 14minutes]
• Joseph Eichenberger, Vice President, African Development Bank
  [: 7minutes] [Kaberuka Written Remarks , 106KB]
• Ciro de Falco, Executive Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank
  [: 12minutes] [Statement , 123KB]
• Ambassador Munir Akram, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, Chairman of the Group of 77
  [: 13minutes] [Statement , 100KB]
• Walter Erdelen, Asst Director General for Science, UNESCO
  [: 9minutes] [Statement , 25KB]
• Kobsak Chutikul, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, UNCTAD
  [: 6minutes] [Statement , 112KB]

Opening Keynotes

• Chairperson: Robert Watson, Chief Scientist & Director, ESSD, The World Bank
• Ramesh Mashelkar, President, Global Research Alliance
  Scientific and technological opportunities and challenges for development
  [: 34minutes] [Presentation , 16MB]

Session I, Panel A:
Building local capacity for developing and diffusing appropriate technologies

• Chairperson: Ruth Kagia, Education Sector Director, Human Development Network, World Bank
• Amy Smith, Instructor, MIT Edgerton Center
  Building local STI capacity for developing appropriate technologies
  [: 11minutes] [Presentation , 3MB]
• Parker Mitchell, CEO, Engineers Without Borders, Canada
  Sociological and cultural challenges of adopting appropriate technologies: Why the “best” engineering solutions aren’t always adopted
  [: 21minutes] [Presentation , 4.3MB]
• Frans Doorman / Gerard Hendriksen
  Building local capacity to develop and diffuse appropriate technologies to rural areas – Examples from Rwanda and Bangladesh
  [: 16minutes] [Presentation , 126KB]

Day 1 Afternoon Keynote Session:
The Gender Dimension of STI Capacity Building

• Chairperson:  Robin McLay, Director, Research, CIDA
• Farkhonda Hassan, Chair, Commission on Human Development and Local Administration of the Shoura Assembly (Egyptian Parliament)
  [: 16minutes] [Presentation , 6.4MB]
• Sudha Nair, Programme Director, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
  [: 16minutes] [Presentation , 12.7MB] 
• Shirley Malcom, Head, Education and Human Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  [: 12minutes] [Presentation , 675KB]

Session I, Panel B:
A sectoral view on building STI capacity for meeting the MDGs

• Chairperson: Julian Schweitzer, Sector Director, South Asia Region, World Bank
• Andy Hall, LINK Coordinator, UNU-MERIT
  Building local systems for delivering agricultural innovations
  [: 21minutes] [Presentation , 121KB]
• Charles Gore, Principal Author, UNCTAD Least Developed Country Report 2006
  STI and Poverty Reduction in the Least Developed Countries
  [: 18minutes] [Presentation , 881KB]

Day 1 Keynote
Wayne Johnson, VP of University-Industry Relations, HP +
Building partnerships with the private sector to help create education systems which become a resource for economic growth
[: 19minutes] [Presentation , 6.9MB]

Session II, Panel A:
Building STI Capacity to add value to natural resource sectors

• Chairperson: William Maloney, Lead Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America Region, World Bank
• Joaquin Cordua, Director of education and human development, Fundacion Chile
  Fundacion Chile’s lessons from its work in natural resource exports
  [: 28minutes] [Presentation , 1.2MB]
• Hasit “Tiku” Shah,  Managing Director, Sunripe, and Chairman, Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya
  Building STI Capacity to Meet Global Quality, Health, and Sanitary Standards in the Kenyan Fresh Vegetables Industry
  [: 18minutes] [Presentation , 1.3MB]
• Discussant: Steven Jaffee, Lead Economist, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank