-1- GEM-TECH Awards 2014 Breakfast with Women Ministers Topic: Bridging the Gender Digital Divide - 20 Years since Beijing 21st October 2014, 07:45 - 9:00 Room: 3B-2, BEXCO AGENDA 07:00 – 07:45 07:45 Informal Networking and Breakfast START OF THE PROGRAMME 07:45 – 07:50 Opening remarks by the Ms Doreen Bogdan Martin, Chief of Strategic Planning and Membership, ITU 07:50 – 07:57 Welcome remarks by the ITU SG, Dr Hamadoun I. Touré 07:57 – 08:05 Opening by Moderator: Ms Walda W. Roseman, Initiator of Women’s Breakfast 08:05 – 08:47 Moderator: Ms Walda W. Roseman Moderator starts an interactive dialogue on four crucial questions 1. Are you concerned that the information revolution might leave women behind as in the industrial revolution? What actions might we take to ensure that that doesn’t happen? 2. From words to action …. Do you see gender appropriately reflected in the global political agenda for ICTs? 3. Statistics suggest that women are getting online slower and later than men…..does this really matter? Do you see remedies for this at the national level? 4. What does it mean to you to be a woman in technology? What would you personally like to see for the world’s youngest female citizens in the ICT world and do you believe it is achievable? Women Ministers Registered for PP-14 1. H.E. Ms Derdouri Zohra, Minister, Algeria 2. H.E. Massoundi Bahiat, Minister, Comoros 3. H.E. Omobola Johnson, Minister, Nigeria 4. H.E. Malgorzata Olszewska, Deputy Minister, Poland 5. H.E. Hessa Al Jaber, Minister, Qatar 6. H.E. Ms Rebecca Okwaci, Minister, South Sudan 7. H.E Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize, Deputy Minister, South Africa 1 -2- 8. H.E. Tahani Abdalla Attia, Minister, Sudan 9. H.E. Cina Lawson, Minister, Togo 08:47 – 08:52 Wrap up by moderator 08:52 – 09:00 Special Ceremony 2