E-participation Day: towards a more open UN?

19 June 2013 -

Geneva

The E-participation Day was part of the Geneva E-diplomacy Platform and built on the first Geneva E-diplomacy Day (16 November 2012) and the Online Learning Day (17 April 2013). The event was held at the WMO, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 7 bis, Avenue de la Paix, on June 19th from 9.30 to 17.00.

(Indicated times are CET – Central European Time)

AUDIENCE

Thanks to broadcast and remote participation options, the outreach of the event was beyond Geneva. Participants mainly included:

Diplomats from permanent missions,
representatives of international organisations,
NGOs, Journalists, Academics.

Programme with links to recording of the event:

9.30 – 10.00	Networking coffee and registrations
10.00 – 10.20	Welcome remarks by Amb. Fred Tanner, Director, GCSP Mr Benedikt Wechsler, Advisor e-ediplomacy and think tanks, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland Mr Olivier Coutau, Delegate to International Geneva, Office for International Geneva of the Republic and State of Geneva Dr Jovan Kurbalija, Director, DiploFoundation RECORDING IS AVAILABLE HERE.
10.20 – 11.50	2.0 E-Participation in International Geneva Speakers: Mrs Monika Gehner, WHO (Twitter: Saving lives?) Mrs Claudia Gonzalez, Global Fund (Case studies in resource mobilisation) Mr Guy Girardet, DiploFoundation (Social media and increasing openness and inclusiveness of IOs in international Geneva) Moderator: Dr Tereza Horejsova, DiploFoundation RECORDING IS AVAILABLE HERE.
11.50 – 13.00	Lunch reception
13.00 – 14.00	Remote participation in International Organisations Speakers: Mrs Virginia Paque, DiploFoundation (Remote participation at Internet Governance Forum) Mrs Marika Konings, ICANN Mr Anders Norsker, ITU (Remote participation at International Telecommunications Union) Moderator: Mr Guy Girardet, DiploFoundation RECORDING OF PART 2 IS AVAILABLE HERE.
14.15 – 15.15	Break-out sessions: Twitter in International Organisations by Nathalie Mivelaz Tirabosco, Office for International Geneva of the Republic and State of Geneva What is Open Data and why is it important? by Tim Davies, University of Southampton Diplomatic immunities and protocol in the Internet era by Jovan Kurbalija, DiploFoundation RECORDING OF THE SESSION ON DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES AND PROTOCOL IS AVAILABLE HERE.
15.15 – 15.30	Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30	Open gov, open data, citizen engagement = more transparency? Impact on the work of IOs Speakers: Mrs Silke von Brockhausen, UNDP (Pioneering social media in the UN – case study) Mr Tim Davies, University of Southampton Mr. Giulio Quaggiotto, UNDP Bratislava (Citizen engagement and Open Data) Moderator: Mr Dejan Dincic, DiploFoundation RECORDING IS AVAILABLE HERE.
16.30 – 17.00	Concluding remarks