Registration starts at 9:00 a.m.

The day shall kick off with a forum with Dr. Eric Brewer discussing the policy effects of long-distance, rural deployment of internet infrastructures.

This shall be opened by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) at 9:30 a.m. , followed by Dr. Brewer's talk from 9:45 to 11:00 a.m. An open forum shall follow right after.

People in the telecommunications industry and involved in NGOs dedicated to rural connectivity, education and electrification are highly encouraged to attend this forum.

At 2:00 p.m. the same day, Dr. Brewer shall give a talk on his personal experiences in setting-up a start-up, running it and having it sold. Entrepreneurs and start-ups will benefit from this talk.

Below is Dr. Eric Brewer's credentials.

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Dr. Eric A. Brewer focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems, including technology, strategy, and government.  As a researcher, he has led projects on scalable servers, search engines, network infrastructure, sensor networks, and security. His current focus is (high) technology for developing regions, with projects in India, Ghana, and Uganda (so far), and including communications, health, education, and e-government.

He is the main propenent of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He also was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of 32. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation with a Berkeley grad student based on their research prototype, and helped lead it onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. He is known for promoting the CAP Theorem about distributed network applications

In 2000, he founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501-3(c) organization focused on improving consumer access to government information. Working with President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create USA.gov, the official portal of the Federal government, which launched in September 2000.

He received an MS and Ph.D. in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley. He was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, by the Industry Standard as the "most influential person on the architecture of the Internet", by InfoWorld as one of their top ten innovators, by Technology Review as one of the top 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the "TR100"), and by Forbes as one of their 12 "e-mavericks", for which he appeared on the cover. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering, for leading the development of scalable servers, and named an ACM Fellow. He is currently this year's ACM SIGOPS Wieser award, an award given to individuals who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research (http://www.sigops.org/award-weiser.html).

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