Last day of the forum consisted of 11 speakers presenting two sessions; eParticipation and eInnovations/ Open Data; to discuss Information and Communication Technology topics, issues and the latest trends.
The eParticipation session involved five speakers – Managing Director and Founder of User Vision in UK Chris Rourke presenting Creating eGovernment Success through Usable, Citizen – Center Service Design Across Channels; Executive Director of National Information Society Agency in Korea Dr. Jeongwoon Yoon presenting Strategic Approach Towards Smart Society; Director Consulting at Babiel GmbH Alex Felsenberg presenting Participating in the Political Process: listening, collecting, channeling, reacting; Public Affairs and Corporate Citizenship Lead of Microsoft Turkey as well as the Founder and CEO of digitalgovernment.com Erdem Erkul presenting eParticipation; along with Principal at Booz & Company as well as Senior member of the Business Technology Practice in the Middle East Fady Kassatly presenting eParticipation – Is it for everyone? The Importance of Digital Inclusion.
The eInnovations/ Open Data session involved six speakers – Co-founder and Managing Director of Civic Resource Group Dr. Gregory Curtin presenting Open Data for F.A.S.T Government; Founding Member and Chairman of Open Data in Germany Stefan Gehrke presenting Open Data Networks in Germany; Deputy Director of Office of Government Organization MOPAS Minsun Jeong presenting Korea’s eInnovation; Manager and Regional Relations of ICANN Middle East Baher Esmat presenting Innovation: A new Internet Extensions; CEO of KindredHQ Alex Butler presenting Innovation in Government: Why entrepreneurial thinking is so Important?; and Head of UN University IIST Center for Electronic Governance and Senior Research Dr. Tomasz Janowski presenting Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development.