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Agenda
Communicating the
Noncommunicable
A Call to Action for Advancing the
MDG and NCD Agenda
8.00-9.30 Breakfast Publication Launch
Welcome remarks by Mrs. Coumba Touré, Founder and
President, Advanced Development for Africa (ada) and
Conference Chairperson
Opening remarks by co-chairs - Dr. S. Ratzancott C,
Vice President Global Health, Johnson & Johnson & co-chair,
innovation Working Group of the Un Secretary-General for
Women’s & Children’s Health and
Dr. Eva Jané-Llopis, head, chronic disease and
Well-being,
World economic Forum
Launch: Publications and communication tools
Moderated by: Dr. Franklin Apfel, Managing Director,
World Health Communication Associates and
Editor of NCDS: A Health Literacy Action Guide
Dr. Julian Fisher, Associate Director FDI World
Dental Federation – “The World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA)
“Health Improvement Card” -
Prof. Peter Anderson, Newcastle University, England
and co-chair, World economic Forum Global
Agenda Council on NCDS –
“Special NCD Summit Supplement Journal of Health
Communication,
"Communicating the Non-communicable”
Dr. Denis Gilhooly, Executive Director, Digital He@lth
Initiative – “Creating A Digital Health Dynamic for
Development”
ummary comments by : Dr. Pekka Puska Director
General, National Institute for Health andWelfare (thL),
Helsinki, Finland and Chair, Governing Council,
International Agency for Research
on Cancer IARC), Lyon, France.
Women Connect for Health & Education:
Empowering Women in the Digital Era
Challenges and Opportunities to
Achieve MDG 3,4,5,6 & NCDs
by 2015
9.00-9.30 Registration and Coffee
9.30-9.35 Welcome remarks by Mrs. Coumba Touré,
Founder and President Advanced Development for Africa (ADA)
and
Conference Chairperson
9.35-10.35 Keynote remarks:
Ms. Cherie Blair, Founder and c|Chairperson,
Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Ms. Geena Davis, Founder, Geena Davis Institute on
Gender in Media
Mr. Sunil Bharti, Chairman & CEO, Bharti Enterprises
Dr. Carole Presern, Director of the Partnership for
Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH)
Dr. Tore Godal, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
of Norway, Co-Chair, Innovation Working Group of the Un
Secretary-General for Women’s & Children’s Health
Prof. Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim
Foundation
Dr. Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, Joint United
Nations Programme onHIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Short Video
10.40-11.30 roundtable 1:
Women Connect for Health-Connecting the Dots for the Health
MDGs and NCDs
Chair: Prof. Dr Klaus Leisinger, President & Managing
Director, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development,
Co-Chair, Digital He@lth Initiative
Moderator: Mr. Denis Gilhooly, Executive Director,
Digital He@lth Initiative
Opening remarks by Dr. Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the
Prime Minister, Public information Infrastructure &
Innovation, India
First Ladies:
H.E. Jeanette Kagame, First Lady, Republic of Rwanda
H.E. Vanda Guiomar Pignato, First Lady, Republic of
El Salvador
H.E. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, First Lady of Gabon
H.E. Geri Benoit, Former First Lady of Haiti,
Ambassador to Italy for Haiti
Panelists:
H.E. Jasna Matic, Minister of ICT, Republic of Serbia
Dr. Patty Michel, Executive Director, Mhealth
Alliance
Mr. Denis O’Brian, Chairman, Digicel
Dr. Ann Keeling, President,NCD Alliance &
International Diabetes Federation
Short Video
11.40-12.25 roundtable 2 –
Creating a Global Partnership for Development for
Gender
Empowerment & Education
Chair: Prof. Ellis Rubinstein, President,
the New York Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Dr. Denis Gilhooly, Executitve Director,
Digital He@lth Initiative
Opening remarks -
H.E. Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global
Women's issues, State Department,
United states
First Ladies:
H.E. Toure Lobbo Traore, First Lady, Republic of Mali
H.E. Margarita Cedeño, First Lady, Dominican Republic
H.E. Janet Kataaha Museveni, First Lady, Republic of
Uganda
H.E. Sandra Saakashvili-Roelofs, First Lady of
Georgia
Panelists:
Ms. Bisila Bokoko, Founder and Board chair,
BB African Literacy Foundation
Ms. Geena Davis, Founder, Geena davis institute on
Gender in Media
Ms. Jill Sheffield, President, Women deliver
Mr. Lawrence Yanovitch, President, GSMA Foundation
Short Video
12.30-2.30
First Ladies Fashion
for Development Luncheon
First Ladies &
Fashion 4 Development Official Event
”Giving Back is the new Luxury”
Honoring: Bibi Russell, Founder , Fashion 4
development and
Franca Sozzani, Ambassador of Goodwill , Fashion 4
development
& Editor in Chief , Vogue Italia
Presenting Fashion-ABLE Haiti a Project of the Embassy of
Haiti in Rome, Italy
Featuring Special Tributes to First Ladies and the launch
of the joint Initiative of the Advanced Development for
Africa and Fashion 4 Development “ Shawl to Remember”
The Premiere First Ladies & Fashion 4 development Luncheon,
in support of the Un MillenniumDevelopment Goals, will bring
together First Ladies and key players in fashion, diplomacy,
media, business and the creative industries to celebrate the
power of fashion as a tool to empower women
and implement creative strategies for sustainable economic
growth and autonomy. First Ladies &Fashion is the premiere
campaign of F4d, led by First Ladies from around the globe,
supported by individuals and entities in the fashion and
related industries worldwide. the purpose of the
campaign is to create awareness and raise funds that will be
dispersed as grants to organizationsand individuals to
empower
their impoverished communities.
3.30-4.00 Digital health in action
– Partnerships in Practice
Chair: Prof. Dr Klaus Leisinger, President &
Managing Director, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development,
Co-Chair, Digital He@lth Initiative
Moderator: Mr. Denis Gilhooly, Executive Director,
Digital He@lth Initiative
Mr. Hans Vestberg, CEO, Ericsson
H.E. Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Minister of health,
Republic of Rwanda
H.E. Dr. Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister,
Public information
Infrastructure & Innovation, India
4.00-4.30 mHealth for NCD Prevention
H.E. Kathleen Sebelius, Us Secretary of Health and
Human services
Ms. Kathy Calvin, CEO, Un Foundation
Dr. Alex Gorsky, Vice Chair, Johnson & Johnson
& Co-Chair, Innovation Working Group
4.30-5.00 Next Steps for a Global
Digital Partnership
for Development
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at
Columbia University, Special Adviser on MdGs to Un
Secretary-General
Dr. Robert Orr, Assist Director-General, Strategy,
Policy & Plans
United Nations
Some More Details:
Morning Session
Women Connect for Health & Education:
Empowering Women in the
Digital Era
Challenges and Opportunities
to Achieve MDG 3,4,5,6 and NCDs by 2015
First Ladies Official Side
Event at the UN HLM on NCDs 2011
New
York Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 9.30-2.30, September 19 2011
For
over a decade, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have
been the focal point for international efforts aimed at
improving the living standards and quality of life of the
billions of the world’s poorest citizens. At the same time,
information and communication technologies (ICT) and access
to essential medicines have made enormous inroads in
virtually every sector of the developing world. Encouraged
by the growth and impact of ICT and renewed efforts by the
pharmaceutical community for the delivery of essential
medicines, both the public and private sector have
identified opportunities to leverage technology and
innovation in developing countries to deliver life-enhancing
services in the arenas of health, education, financial
services, entrepreneurship,
democracy and crisis-management.
Meanwhile,
there has also been a growing recognition of the role that
women in developing countries play in helping to improve the
health and well-being of their families and of society.
Focusing on women and ICT is a unique opportunity to help
achieve MDGs 3, 4 , 5, 6 as well as the NCDs. In the arena
of mHealth, for example, mobile phones along with the
Internet are helping to address shortages of skilled health
workers, introducing low cost technologies that can tackle
issues such as women’s and children’s health care. As the
Innovation Working Group (IWG) of UN Secretary General Ban
Ki Moon’s Global Strategy on Women ‘s and Childrens
Health : Every Women, Every Child (www.everywomaneverychild.org)
has shown, ICT technology is helping to improve access to
health services and information, quality of care and health
outcomes, and creating efficiencies within health systems.
Additionally, ICT technologies are also generating real-time
health data that can be used to improve the overall
performance of the health system and enhance disease
surveillance efforts in addition to tracking progress across
the MDGs. A broad range of applications are now available
to improve point-of care support for front-line health
workers and provide access to life-saving information for
the general population and health professionals when and
where they need it most. Furthermore, as “Action Point 6 –
Accelerating Broadband Access to Women and Girls” of the
report to the Un Secretary-General of the Broadband
Commission for Digital Development puts it “Active steps
should be taken to accelerate access to broadband
infrastructure and the use of broadband enabled services by
women and girls, in order to promote gender equality,
empowerment and the social and economic development of both
men and women” (www.broadbandcommission.org).
Beyond health ICT
and mobile as the first wave of broadband access is also
having a radical impact on the inter-linked MDG agenda for
poverty reduction. Mobile money, such as the successful M-PESA
initiative- in Kenya, is leading to higher savings and
greater incomes for people with traditional access to
banks. In particular, M-PESA has been shown to empower
rural women, as the mobile-based remittance product makes it
easier for them to solicit and receive money from their
husbands and other contacts in Kenyan cities. “Remittances
through M-PESA relieve many women in rural areas of the
burden of traveling by bus to cities to receive money from
their husbands, a process that for some could take
as long as one week.”
Similarly,
mAgriculture
solutions are offering women in developing countries
information on produce prices; governments and civil society
are using mobile phones to connect with grants, education,
manage crises, and disperse conditional cash transfers,
while everyday citizens are leveraging mobile technology to
better human rights and democracy. Further, it is clear
that women benefit from mobile technology.
GSMA research found that:
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Women
mobile phone owners of every age, location and
socio-economic status cite an increased feeling of
safety and security from mobile phone ownership.
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A mobile
phone can help foster a sense of independence. Of women
mobile owners surveyed, 85% report feeling more
independent because of their mobile phone.
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Four in ten
women surveyed across low- and middle-income countries
report enjoying increased economic or professional
opportunities due to owning a mobile phone.
However, the same GSMA research also found that women are
not benefiting from mobile equally to men: a woman in a low-
to middle-income country is 21% less likely to own a mobile
phone than a man, leading to a mobile phone gender gap of
approximately 300 million women. Women’s barriers to
mobile technology include the total cost of ownership,
cultural barriers, and limited technical literacy amongst
women at the base of the pyramid.
In turn, there are both many opportunities and challenges to
empowering women in the era of digital technologies. The
presence of dozens of Heads of State, Heads of Governments
and First Ladies at the forthcoming and first High Level
Meeting on Non-Communicable diseases 19-20 September in New
York preceding the opening of the 65th UN General
Assembly, under offers all MDG stakeholders a unique
opportunity to map and deploy an effective framework
governing these new interventions in ICT and pharmaceuticals
targeting the achievement of the gender and health-related
MDGs and NCDs particularly in Africa, while also promoting
the combination between women’s empowerment and the widest
use of innovation and technology.
Seizing such opportunity, Advanced Development for
Africa (ADA) in collaboration with UN Women, the
UN Digital He@tlh Initiative, the ITU Women
Network in ICT (WITNET), the GSMA mWomen Programme,
and South South News is organizing and official side
event in parallel with the UN High Level Meeting at the New
York Waldorf Astoria Hotel on September 19, 2010 from 9.30
am-2.30 pm.
The event will feature a series of keynotes and high-level
roundtables under the theme “Empowering Women in the
Digital Era” and a First Ladies Fashion for
Development” that shall bring together key players to
discuss how ICTs can be leveraged to empower
women and girls.
The proposed agenda will focus on vital issues relating to
the use of the Internet and mobile devices for gender
empowerment, maternal and child health, HIVI/AIDS and NCDs
as well as African health systems structural bottlenecks,
catalyzing economic growth and how to close the ICT gender
gap, and achieving effective leadership and governance,
while identifying best practices and case studies, and to
prioritize a set of challenges to pursue with various
partners towards the achievement of all the MDGs goals for
Africa by 2015.
The main objectives of the roundtables will be to:
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Identify
the key challenges to achieving MDGs 3, 4, 5, 6 and NCDs
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Discuss
specific technology solutions to overcoming barriers
to their achievement
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Equip
attendees with the knowledge and tools that would lead
to developing effective and appropriate policies and
partnerships
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Prioritize
challenges to pursue in the next 5 years
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Create a
forum for future networking and collaborations
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