Electronic/Mobile Government in the LAC Region: Building Capacity in Knowledge Management through Partnerships

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1 DIVISION FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT (DPADM) UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS () CENTRAL AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (ICAP) UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM COSTA RICA Electronic/Mobile Government in the LAC Region: Building Capacity in Knowledge Management through Partnerships PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES Draft version Santo Domingo, Heredia, Costa Rica November 17th to 20th, 2009

2 Electronic/Mobile Government in the LAC Region: Building Capacity in Knowledge Management through Partnerships Santo Domingo, Heredia, Costa Rica November 17th to 20th, 2009 PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH 6:00-22:00 Transport to the Hotel Bouganvillea Arrival of the regional participants and transfer to Hotel Bougainvillea in Santo Domingo, Heredia TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH 9:00-9:45 Opening ceremony Mr. Jonas Ravinovitch, Inter-Regional Adviser Division for Public Administration and Development Management, BCIE Ms. Hazel Cepeda, Country Manager Central American Bank for Economic Integration, BCIE, in Costa Rica UNDP/Costa Rica Ms. Luiza Carvalho Resident Representative, UNDP Costa Rica Government of Costa Rica Ms. Eugenia Flores Vindas, Minister of Science and Technology ICAP Mr. Hugo Zelaya Cálix Director of ICAP

3 9:45 10:00 GROUP PHOTOGRAPH 10:00 10:30 BREAK Topic: Electronic Government: An Overview. 10:30 11:30 CARICAD Conference: Lessons Learned on the development of a regional e- government strategy. Ms. Jennifer Astaphan Executive Director 11:30-12:30 CHILE Conference. Agenda for Modernization in Chile. Experiences and Challenges of Electronic Government. Mr. Juan Walker Edwards Secretario Ejecutivo Agenda de Modernización del Estado, Gobierno de Chile 12:30-14:00 LUNCH 14:00 15:20 Myths and Realities of knowledge management for public administration. Mr. Jonas Ravinovitch 30 min ICAP Management of information and knowledge in Central America: Building capacity through collaboration. Ms. Rethelny Figueroa 30 min Demo of ICAP Web portal Mr. Pedro Montero Ms. Summer Cagle 10 min 1 min 16:00-16:30 SIMAAS Municipal Integration System of South America. Web portal. Mr. Alejandro Ratti, Officer of the Municipal System 30 min

4 Integration 16:30 17:00 CGU-BRASIL Transparency Portal in Brazil, Challenges and Results Mr. Henrique Aparecido da Rocha, Director of Strategic Research of the Comptroller General of Brazil 30 min WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH 8:30 10:00 Summary of the previous day Topic: Training - Building capacity for the network architecture of knowledge 90 min Workshop and demonstration of the Global Knowledge Repository, UNPAN. Ms. Carla Valle Mr. Jonas Rabinovitch 10:00-10:30 BREAK 10:30 12:30 Workshop and demonstration of the Global Knowledge Repository, UNPAN. Ms. Carla Valle Mr. Jonas Rabinovitch 120 min 12:30-14:00 LUNCH

5 14:00 15:30 Electronic Government of Costa Rica Central Michigan University, USA Online Market project in Costa Rica Approaches to train employees in e-government Mr. Gustavo Morales Mr. Philip A. Lundquist, Professor, Central Michigan University 45 min 45 min 15:30-16:00 BREAK 16:00 17:00 Dominican Republic ICTs in the processes of reform and state modernization. Mr. Onofre Rojas, Ex Secretary of State in charge of the State Reform and Modernization (96/2000) and the Cooperation with European Union (2004/08), Dominican Republic THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Summary of the previous day Topic: Challenges in Capacity Building for Electronic Governance 8:30 10:30 Representatives of Central America, and Dominican Republic Republic Presentation of Central American countries: Reports on the state of facilities and capabilities in Central America on e-government Mr. Roberto Argueta Quan, Engineer of the National Council of Science and Technology, CONACYT, El Salvador Mr. Antonio Meoño, Systems Engineer, National Institute of Public Management, INAP, Guatemala 120 min

6 10:30-11:00 BREAK Ms. Rosa Ivannia Olivares, Head of the Department of Norms and Standards and Electronic Government, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Nicaragua Mr. Roberto Earle, Assistant Director of Information Technologies and Communications of the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Communications of the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation, SENACYT, Panama Mr Federico Muller, Systems Engineer of the Presidential Office of Information Technology and Communication, OPTIC, the Dominican Republic 11:00-12:30 Representatives of Grenada Dominica Santa Lucía Presentations of Caribean countries Mr. Vincent Roberts, Grenada, Coordinator of Information Technologies and Communication of the Office of the Prime Minister of Grenada. 30 min each Ms. Jermaine Jean-Pierre, Director of Information Technologies and Communication of Dominica Mr. Marlon Narcisse, Director of Information Technologies and Communication of Saint Lucía. 12:30-14:00 LUNCH

7 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH ECUADOR MÉXICO Panel: Case Studies of Electronic Government in Latin America Mr. Augusto Espinoza, Sub Secretary of Information and Research of the National Planning Secretariat, Ecuador 45 min each country Mr. José Luis Legorreta García, Director of Digital Government Strategy of the Ministry of Civil Service in Mexico 15:30-16:00 BREAK 16:00-17:00 Argentina Pending Mr. Carlos Francisco Baleztena, National Director of the Institutional Development Project. Tax Agency of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina 19:00 22:00 Participants and organizers Socio-cultural activity Mirador y Restaurante Tiquicia FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH 8:30-10:30 Summary of the previous day Topic: Case studies on Electronic Government Authorities of Costa Rica: Panel: Innovations of Digital Administration and Electronic Government in Costa Rica Ms. María Teresa Elizondo, Director of Indicators of Science 120 min

8 Ministry of Science and Technology Technical Secretariat of Digital Government Costa Rican Institute of Electricity and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology Mr. Claudio Bermúdez, Telecommunications Sub Manager of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity, ICE Ms. Alicia Avendaño Rivera, Director of the Technical Secretariat of Digital Government Mr. Oscar Solís Director, Bureau of Certification of the Digital Signature Mr. Jorge Llubere Azofeifa, Director of Telecommuting and videoconferencing of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity, ICE. 10:30-11:00 BREAK 11:00 12:00 Report, final summary and recommendations 12:00-12:30 ICAP Closing of Seminar 1. Evaluation of the Seminar 12:30-14:30 BCIE PNUD ICAP Lunch and closing 1. Palabras de Despedida 2. Delivery of Certificates 3. Closing in charge of the authorities Mr. Jonas Ravinovitch, Inter-Regional Adviser Division for Public Administration and Development Management, Ms. Hazel Cepeda, Country Manager Central American Bank for Economic Integration, BCIE, in Costa Rica

9 Ms. Luiza Carvalho Resident Representative, UNDP Costa Rica Ms. Eugenia Flores Vindas, Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Hugo Zelaya Cálix Director of ICAP 14:30 Informal consultation and technical visits SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST From 6:00 a.m. Transport to the airport Return of the regional participants