"The Public Voice in Emerging Market Economies"
Burj Al Arab
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
15 January 2001
SCHEDULE
09.30h Registration and Coffee
10.00h Welcome
10.15h Keynote Speech
Herwig Schlogl, Deputy Secretary General, OECD
10.30h Privacy and Data Protection
Chair: Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, EPIC (USA)Rindala Beydoun, Al Tamimi & Co (UAE) (View Presentation)
Anne Carblanc, OECD (FRA)
Gus Hosein, Privacy International (UK)
Amr Zaki Abdel Motaal, Senior Partner , Abdel Motaal, Moharram & Heiza (EGY) (Read Statement)
12.00h Lunch
13.30h Access and Equity
Chair: Maurice Wessing, Bits of Freedom (NLD)John Dryden, OECD, in place of Bruno Lanvin, Dot Force Secretariat, World Bank [View Presentation]
Omar Brizri, Chief, Technology Section, SIPD/ESCWA (LEB) (View Presentation)
Tracy Cohen, the LINK Centre, Wits University (SA) (View Presentation)
14.45h Tea and coffee
15.00h Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce
Chair: Sarah Andrews, Electronic Privacy Information Center (USA)Mohammad Obeidat, President, National Society For Consumer Protection (JOR) (Read Statement)
Sotirios Paschalidis, TACD Steering Committee/ Kepka (GRE)
Machiel van der Velde, European Consumers' Organization (BEL)
James Love, Consumer Project on Technology, (USA) (View Presentation)
16. 30h Closing Speech
Risaburo Nezu, Director, Science, Technology & Industry, OECD