• Introductory & Welcome Address by Osama Manzar, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
• Address by Jon McNerney, Chief Operating Officer: The Internet Society: The Internet is for Everyone, USA
• Address by Chief Guest: Honorable Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India
• Address by Mr. Kinley Dorji, Secretary, IT, Ministry of Communication & Information, Bhutan
• Address by Mr. P.W.D.C. Jayathilaka, Secretary, Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Sri Lanka
• Address by Mr. S.R. Rao, Additional Secretary, DIT, Govt. of India

South Asia ‘Internet for Development’ : Road towards Inclusion & Growth’

This plenary session will deliberate on the following thematic areas within the larger plenary theme and come out key concrete thoughts and actionable points.

• Internet for Public Service Delivery: Decentralization, Community Involvement & Participation
• Accessibility, Affordability and User Centric Internet Growth
• Status of Internet Infrastructure Growth
• Internet for Development & Policy Requirements
• Using the Internet Model as a framework for development consultation, dialogue and participation:  The multi-stakeholder model

Chair: Mr. S. R. Rao, Additional Secretary, DIT, Govt. of India
Co-Chair-cum-Moderator:Mr. Mahfuzur Rehman, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Science & ICT, Bangladesh & Director, Bangladesh Computer Council

1. Mr. Manohar Kumar Bhattarai, Vice Chairman, Nepal High Level Commission for IT
2. Dr. Stephen J. McGurk, Regional Director, Office for South Asia and China, IDRC
3. Ms. Tulika Pandey, Additional Director, DIT, Govt. of India
4. Mr. German Valdez Aviles, Communications Area Manager, APNIC
5. Mr. T.I.M Nurul Kabir, Chairman, Digital Knowledge Foundation, Bangladesh
6. Dr. Mahesh Uppal, Director, Com First (India) Pvt. Ltd., India
7. Mr. A.S. Panneerselvan, Executive Director, Panos South Asia
8. Mr. Ahmed Shahid, First Secretary (Economic and Commercial), High Commission of Maldives, India
9. Mr. Frederic Donck, Director, Public Policy, Internet Society

Developing national Internet infrastructure for socio-economic development: Role of Digital Content & Services in Internet Enabled Growth
This plenary session will deliberate on the following thematic areas within the larger plenary theme and come out key concrete thoughts and actionable points.

• Ensuring Last Mile Connectivity beyond Stop Gap Arrangements
• Policy Compatibility towards robust National Internet Infrastructure
• Online Content in South Asia: Opportunities and Realities
• Local Language Content & Citizen Services Delivery

Chair: N. Ravi Shanker, Joint Secretary, DIT & CEO, NIXI
Co-Chair-cum-Moderator: Mr. Manohar Kumar Bhattarai, Vice Chairman, Nepal High Level Commission for IT

Panel

1. Mr. Mahfuzur Rehman, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Science & ICT, Bangladesh
2. Mr. Shailesh Gupta, Vice President, Tata Communications
3. Mr. Rajen Varada, Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange, ICTD Unit, India
4. Mr. Karma Wangdi, Head, Infrastructure Division, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of Bhutan
5. Mr. Rajesh Charia, President, ISPAI, India
6. Mr. Prakash Kumar, Director, CISCO
7. Mr. Dipendra Kandel, Chairman, COPPADES, Nepal
8. Dr. Dhruv Nath, Professor, Information Management, MDI, Gurgaon

Session Discussions & Q&A

Internet Governance & Digital Divide:  “Strategies from thought to action towards a policy Roadmap"
This plenary session will deliberate on the following key thematic areas within the larger plenary theme and come out key concrete thoughts and actionable points.

• Formulating responses and solutions to Internet security, stability and soft issues: IPv6, DNSSEC, SPAM, Network Neutrality, Trust and Identity
• User-Centric Internet: Building Internet around the needs of the users 
• Intellectual Property: Managing the intellectual property laws in a modern networked society. 
• Greater policy awareness and regional tailoring of policy programs

Chair: Mr. Kinley Dorji, Secretary, Ministry of Communications & Information, Govt. of Bhutan
Co-Chair-cum-Moderator-cum-Referee: Mr. Ashis Sanyal, Senior Director, DIT, Govt. of India

• Mr. P.W.D.C. Jayathilaka, Secretary, Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Sri Lanka
• Dr. Subho Ray, President, IAMAI, India
• Dr. Surinder Batra, Professor & Chairperson, Information Technology Management Area, and Chairperson, Centre for Strategic Information Management, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
• Mr. Ananya Raihan, CEO, D.Net Bangladesh
• Mr. Anand Kumar, Coordinator, UN Solution Exchange, New Delhi, India
• Mr. Bashir Hamad Shadrach, Asia Senior Program Officer, telecentre.org
• Dr. Amir Ullah Khan, Director, India Development Foundation

• Mr N Ravi Shanker, Jt. Secretary, DIT, Gov of India
• Dr. Stephen J. McGurk, Regional Director, Office for South Asia and China, IDRC

• Mr. Rajnesh Singh, ISOC