Mobile and Cloud Services for Development
Mr Heitmann, Chair of ICC’s Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT), welcomed all participants, introduced the panelists and explained the focus of the workshop. He began the workshop discussion by asking the Government of Kenya about the expectation of possible policy frameworks for the future of mobile and cloud services.
Organizers
ICC BASIS
Government of Kenya
Moderator
Herbert Heitmann, Chair ICC’s Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT), Executive Vice President, External Communications, Royal Dutch Shell
Panelists
Mr Jeff Brueggeman, Vice President Public Policy, AT&T
Ms Pilar del Castillo, Member of the European Parliament
Mr Erik Hersman, Co-founder & Director of Operations & Strategy of Ushahidi
Ms Alice Munyua, Chair, Kenya Internet Governance Steering Committee
Ms Theresa Swinehart, Executive Director, Global Internet Policy, Verizon Communications
Lead discussants
Dr Burt Kaliski, Chief Technology Officer; VeriSign
Mr Nasser Kettani, Chief Technology Officer, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft
Remote moderator
Ms Heather Shaw, USCIB
This workshop was followed by sixty remote
participants and a remote hub in Vanuatu (with three remote
participants), New Zealand, India, Nigeria and one other remote country.