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IAALD 10th WORLD CONGRESS
Dakar, Senegal, 24 to 28 January 2000
Challenges facing the
Agricultural Information Community
in the Third Millennium
Programme
Chair of the Congress:
Drs Jan van der Burg (The Netherlands)
General Rapporteur:
Mrs Antoinette Paris Powell (USA)
Monday 24 January 2000
Official opening
UNIT 1: Chair: Mr. Mamadou MBengue
(Senegal);
Rapporteur: Mrs Antoinette Paris Powell
(USA)
Plenary Session –
Location: Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel - "Saly"
09.00 - 09.30 Seating of the guests
Opening speeches
09.30 – 09.40 Welcome by Dr Thiendou
Niang, Chair of the Organising Committee of the Congress
09.40 – 09.50 Opening remarks
by Drs Jan van der Burg, President of IAALD
09.50 – 10.00 Opening speech
by Mr Mamadou Mbengue Permanent Secretary of the Senegalese Ministry of Agriculture
10.00 – 10.30 Group photo
and coffee break - Location: Garden of Novotel
10.30 – 11.00 The role of information
in promoting world-wide food security by Dr Anton Mangstl, Director GIL-FAO
11.00 – 11.30 Impact and
sustainability of information systems by Dr Rodney Cooke, Director of CTA
11.30 – 12.00 General
discussion
12.00 – 12.30 Information highway and
management of developing countries' content by Mr Bonaventure Mve - Ondo, Director of
"Bureau Afrique", Agence Universitaire Francophone (AUF)
12.30 – 12.50 Lessons learned from
communities and information society in Africa, ACACIA by Dr Gaston Zongo and Innocent
Butare of IDRC
12.50 – 13.00 General
discussion
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch - Restaurant Hotel
Novotel - "Fuxale"
UNIT 2: Session chair: M. Assize TOURE
(Senegal);
Rapporteur: Mrs. Khady Kane Touré
(Senegal)
Plenary Session –
Location : Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel - "Saly"
14.30 – 15.30 Panel on impact
of information on decision making
Views from the farmers and policy makers
Mr. Zacharia Diallo (Burkina Faso)
Mr Baba Dioum (CMA-AOC)
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break -
"Garden of Novotel"
16.00 – 17.00 Views from the
information professionals
Mrs Claudette de Freitas (CARDI)
Prof. Victor Desroches (Canada)
Mrs. Esther Lwanga-Semakula (Uganda)
Dr Elizabeth Goldberg (IPGRI)
Mr. Jean Kouka (Chad)
17.00 – 17.30 General
discussion
19.00 - 22.00 Cocktail /
Dinner - Novotel "Terrasse and Fuxale"
Tuesday 25 January 2000
UNIT 3: Isolation and professional
adaptation
Session chair: Dr Anton Mangstl (FAO)
Rapporteur: Dr Qiaoqiao Zhang (CABI)
Plenary Session –
Location : Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel - "Saly"
09.00 – 09.30 Isolation and
professional adaptation by Mr. Peter Walton (Fiji)
09.30 – 10.000 General
discussion
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break -
"Garden of Novotel"
10.30 – 12.00 Plenary Session
– Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel - "Saly"
Session Chair : Margot Bellamy (CABI)
Rapporteur : Dorothy Barasa (CTA)
Unit 4 : Professional adaptation
and human resource development
Changing needs of the information
professionals and adaptation of training curriculum by Prof. L.D. Aina (Botswana)
Information professional and agricultural products: gaps
and prospects for alliances by Mrs Khady Kane Touré (Senegal)
Geographical information system and community development
by Dr Magatte Ba (CSE)
Challenges of agricultural information in the context of
the Senegalese decentralisation by Mr Raymond Salla Dione (Sénégal)
Continuing education and institutional development by Mr
Amadou Diop ( IPD/ AOS)
12.00 – 13.00 Poster session
(1) - Location: Hall Novotel
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch - Restaurant Hotel
Novotel - "Fuxale"
UNIT 5 : Economic crisis and its
impact on information services
Session chair: Pr Lenrie Aina (Botswana)
Rapporteur: Mr Jean Pierre Diouf (CODESRIA)
Plenary session –
Location: Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel - "saly"
14.30 – 15.00 Achieving effective
information programmes under economic and financial constraints by Dr Dennis Rangi (CABI)
15.00 – 15.30 Contract
management : a new government policy for output financing of products and services by
Drs Hans van Hartevelt (The Netherlands)
15.30 - 16.00 General discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break -
"Garden of Novotel"
16.30 – 18.00 Poster session
(2) - Location: Hall Novotel
WEDNESDAY 26 January 2000
UNIT 6 : Technological changes and
revolution
Chair: Prof. Carol Boast-Robertson (USA)
Rapporteur: Mrs Aline Lisette Vidal (Côte
d’Ivoire)
Plenary session –
Location: Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel - "Saly"
09.00 – 09.30 How the information and
communication technologies will be affecting our business? by Mrs Pamela André (USA)
09.30 _ 10.00 Presentation of Infodev
Programme of the World Bank by Fernanda Cabanas (Mozambique)
10.00 – 10.30 General
discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break -
"Garden of Novotel"
11.00 – 13.00 Pleanary session
EIARD Infosys by Mr Benoit Girardot
(France)
Multi Host Database Interfaces -Demand of a Networked
Information Landscape at the beginning 3rd Millennium by
Dr Holger Friedrich (Germany)
Scientific multimedia applications by Mr Benoit Girardot
(France)
Challenges in using new information technologies for
information provision for forestry research in Ghana by Dr Margaret Sraku-Lartey (Ghana)
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) by Mr
Gracian Chimwaza (TEEAL Project)
Introducing the information and communication technologies
in the community sustainable lands management in the Tambacounda region of Senegal by Mr
Abdou Fall (FRAO)
Information and environmental monitoring using internet by
Mr Djibril Ndiaye (Senegal)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch - Restaurant Hotel Novotel -
"Fuxale"
UNIT 7: Collaboration and
partnership
Session chair: Prof. Vitor Desoches
(Canada)
Rapporteur: Carol Roberstson and John Johnston (USA)
Plenary Session –
Location: Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel
14.30 – 15.00 Alliance strategies in
agricultural information management
by Dr Jean François Giovannetti (CIRAD,
France)
15.00 – 15.30 General discussion
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break -
"Garden of Novotel"
16.00 – 17.30 Pleanary session
China's agricultural information in transition by Dr
Qiaoqiao Zhang (CABI)
Role of information in regional integration
of agricultural research: the CORAF information system by Dr N’Diaga M’Baye and
Dady Demby (CORAF)
Promoting the essential role of
collaboration and partnerships in development initiatives by Dr Peggy Johnson (USA)
Regional cooperation: the Central and
Eastern European scenario by Mr. Michal Demes (FAO) and Dr Laszlo Papocsi
Progress of a Decade of the U.S./Central
and Eastern European Agricultural Library Roundtables. A Slovenian Perspective by
Dr Tomaz Bartol (Slovenia)
Development of IAALD activities in Slovak
Republic under Central and Eastern European conditions by Dr Marcela Chrenekova and Dr
Juraj Gogora (Slovaky)
THURSDAY 27 January 2000
UNIT 8: Roundtable on information
management trends
Session Chair: Drs Jan Van der Burg,
President of IAALD ;
Rapporteur: Mrs Antoinette Paris Powell,
Editor of IAALD
Plenary session –
Location: Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel
09.00 – 10.30 General
conclusion by Mrs Antoinette Paris Powell
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Panel on
information and management trends
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon : Tour of Dakar, Visit of
Gorée
FRIDAY 28 January
2000
UNIT 9: IAALD General Assembly
Session chair: Drs Jan van der Burg (IAALD)
Rapporteur: Mrs Margot Bellamy (CABI)
Plenary session –
Location: Main Conference Hall - Hotel Novotel
08.00 – 13.00 President’s
report
Secretary –Treasurer’s
Report
Publications Manager report
Working groups’ report
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 - 12.00 Amendment to the
constitution
Ratification of the new Executive
Committee
12.00 - 13.00 Official closing of
the Congress
New President,
the Permanent secretary of the Ministry of Environment
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch - Restaurant Hotel
Novotel |