8h – 9h: Registration

9h – 9:45h: Opening

• • Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães, Minister of the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of Brazil.
• • Márcio Pochmann, Márcio Pochmann, President of IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research), Brazil.
• • Hélio Costa, Minister of Communications, Brazil.
• • Paulo Bernardo, Minister of Planning, Budget, and Management, Brazil.
• • Ronaldo Sardenberg, President of ANATEL (National Telecommunications Agency), Brazil.

9:45h – 10:15h: Presentation: “Goals of the National Policy on Broadband”

• • Cezar Alvarez, Cezar Alvarez, Deputy chief of staff of the President´s Agenda and coordinator of the Federal Government’s programs for digital inclusion, Brazil.

10:15h – 11h: Presentation: “The new political scenario of Information and Communication Technology (ICT): post-modularity”

• • Jonathan Aronson, Professor at the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (ARNIC), University of Southern California, USA.

11h – 11:15h: Coffee break

11:15h – 13h: Panel 1: “Social inclusion policies addressing broadband access”

• • Bruce Girard, Coordinator, Comunica.org, Uruguay.
• • Radhika Lal, , Institutional and Technological Innovation and Structural Policies, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), Brazil.
• • Helani Galpaya, LIRNEasia’s Chief Operating Officer and Indicators Specialist, Sri Lanka.
• • Murilo César Ramos, Director of the Center for Policy, Law, Economics and Communication Technologies (CCOM) of the University of Brasília, Brazil.

15h – 17h: Panel 2: “Impacts of broadband development and regulatory institutions”

• • Raul Katz, Professor at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University, USA.
• • Paulo Lopes, Counselor for Information Society and Media affairs from the European Commission Delegation in Brazil.
• • Alison Gillwald, Director of Research ICT Africa and Professor at the University of Cape Town´s School of Business, South Africa.
• • Márcio Iorio Aranha, Visiting Fellow at ARNIC/USC and Professor at the Center for Policy, Law, Economics and Communication Technologies (CCOM) at the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
• • Márcio Wohlers, Director of Sector Studies of IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research), Brazil.

17h – 17:20h: Coffee break

17:20h – 19:20h: Panel 3: “Infrastructure, transport and sharing regulatory policies”

• • Prabir Neogi, Prabir Neogi, Special Advisor, Electronic Commerce Branch, Industry Canada, Canada.
• • Malcolm Webb, Partner, Webb Henderson Legal and Regulatory Advisors, New Zealand.
• • Marcus Boklund, Strategic Department, Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, Sweden.
• • Tracy Cohen, Managing Executive: Regulatory Affairs at Neotel, South Africa.

• • Tomoyuki Saruwatari, Director of Broadband Division in the Electronic Communications Activity Department of the Secretariat of General Communications Infrastructure, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan.

19:20h: Closure Presentation: “The key role of the enabling enviroment in ensuring broadband acces for all”

• • Juan Zavattiero, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Regional Director for the Americas.

19:50h: Cocktail