Thoughts and proposals

Agenda for the DKN Meeting, October 3-5, 2006

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The Agenda includes references to background reading for the meeting.

The meeting is planned as an invitation only workshop which will bring together social and computer scientists, members of international organizations and government officials interested in using the diaspora knowledge network concept as a means of shedding new light on the migration and development issue. (See issues) which will be discussed at the meeting.

Each of the six sessions planned over the 3 day period will be organized around two talks presented either in French or in English and followed by a general discussion.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

9:30 - 10:00 : Welcoming address by Paul de Guchteneire, Head of UNESCO’s International Migration Programme

10:00 - 11:00 : Stéphane Dufoix, Professeur, GEODE, Université de Paris X

“Here, There and Everywhere... Comment le terme de "diaspora" a transformé la relation à l’espace, et vice-versa.”

11:00 - 11:30 : Coffee

11:30 - 12:30 : Jean-Baptiste Meyer, Institute of Research for Development, Paris

“Towards sustainable knowledge diasporas : the rationale for an appropriate technopolicy”

12:30 - 13:00 : General discussion

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Dana Diminescu : Study Group on Migrant Use of Information and Communication Technologies, Maison des Sciences de L’Homme (MSH), Paris

“Quel espace pour le migrant connecté ? ”

15:00 - 16:00 William Turner, LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay.

“Computer supporting Diaspora Knowledge Networks”

16:00 - 17:00 Coffee and General Discussion

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

9:30 - 10:30 : Simon Buckingham Shum, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, England

“Information Infrastructures for Brain Gain”

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee

11:00 - 12:00 : William Turner, LIMSI-CNRS

« Social Informatics in the DKN Project »

12:00 - 13:00 : General discussion

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Christian Licoppe, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris

« Mediated Interpersonal Communications »

15:00 - 16:00 : Claude Henry, VECAM

“User advocacy in the mediated communication space of the DKN project"

16:00 - 17:00 : Coffee and General Discussion

Thursday, October 5, 2006

9:30 - 10:30 : Ximena Castro-Sardi (Colombia) and William Turner (LIMSI-CNRS),

“Institutional incentives for brain gain in Colombia”

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee

11:00 - 12:30 : Research Reports

Alan Gamlen, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, 2005

“Engaging Diaspora : the case of New Zealand”

Rudi Robinson, The North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada.

“Immigrant Knowledge Networks : Non-market Vehicles for Technology Transfer, and Innovation Capability Building in Developing Countries”

12:00 - 13:00 : General discussion

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 : Round table discussion : “Diaspora Knowledge Networks and Country of Origin Development”

Paul de Guchteneire, Head of UNESCO’s programme on International Migration ;

Jean-Pierre Garson, OECD ;

Annie Chéneau-Loquay, CNRS

16:00 - 17:00 : Coffee and General Discussion