Programme

Wednesday 7 ^th October 2009

(Simultaneous translation from English to Italian and from Italian to English will be provided)

8.30

Registration

9.30
Welcoming Session by

Tullio De Mauro - President of Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Former Italian Minister of Education

on. Adolfo Urso - Vice Minister Ministry of Economic Developement

 

Massimo Egidi - Rector LUISS University of Rome

Lenia Samuel - deputy Director General, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission

10.40

Alfonso Molina - Professor of Technology Strategy at The University of Edinburgh and Scientific Director Fondazione Mondo Digitale

John Davies - President Intel World Ahead Program for Intel Corporation

John Vassallo - Vice-President EU Affairs, Microsoft

12.00

Andy Westwood - Chairman OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations

David Albury - Co-Chair, The Innovation United Limited

12.40–14.30

Break

14.30

Session moderated by Alfonso Molina

 

Mirjam Schöning - Head and Senior Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Raymond Horton - Director Social Enterprise Program, Columbia University

Rod Lohin - Director of the AIC Centre for Corporate Citizenship, University of Toronto

16.00

Tonya Surman - Founder and Director Center for Social Innovation (Toronto)

Chetan Sharma - Founder and Chairman of Datamation Foundation, India

16.40

End of Session

 

 

Thursday 8 ^th October 2009

(Simultaneous translation from English to Italian and from Italian to English will be provided)

Practical Experiences of Social Innovation in Italy

This day is devoted to presentations of Italian practical experiences of social innovation. Sessions are organized by the FMD in partnership with Confcooperative, AICCON (Italian Association for the Promotion of Cooperative and Non-profit Culture) Luiss University of Rome and Sapienza University of Rome.
Each session is commented by international experts on social innovation

09.00

Registration

09.30

Welcome

Session 1 in partnership with Confcooperative

 

Chair and Introductory speech by Carlo Borgomeo - Head of Economics department Confcooperative

 

Enterprise as a form of citizenship : Gruppo Fraternità, Brescia
Luigi Chiari

 

New frontiers for home care: Cooperative Crescere Insieme, Torino
Barbara Pilan

 

Sustainable Social housing: Copalc, Bologna
Mario Bortolotti

 

Comments: Mirjam Schöning - Head and Senior Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

10.45

Session 2 in partnership with Luiss University

 

Chair and Introductory speech by Paolo Boccardelli - Associate Professor of Economics and Enterprise Strategy and Management, Faculty of Economics, LUISS University of Rome

 

Csr e corporate perfomance. Is there any link? - Giovanni Fiori

 

EGO: entrepreneurship and corporate responsibility - Alessio Zagaglia

 

Distributing Knowledge to Low-knowledge-and-resource-density Areas - Eduardo Perez, Stockholm University

 

 

Comments: Raymond Horton - Director Social Enterprise Program, Columbia University

12.00

Session 3 in partnership with AICCON (Italian Association for the Promotion of Cooperative and Non-profit Culture)

 

Chair and Introductory speech by Stefano Zamagni - Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center and President of the Scientific Committee of AICCON

 

• Last Minute Market - Luca Falasconi

 

• Banca Etica, Popular Banking - Andrea Baranes

 

• Italian Association of Responsible Tourism (AITR) - Alfredo Somoza

Comments: Tonya Surman - Founder and Director Center for Social Innovation (Toronto)

13.00

 

Break

14.00

Session 4: International projects

 

Introductory speech: by - Luigi Mariano, professor of Corporate Social Responsibility, Sapienza University of Rome

 

 

Presentation of four good practices of digital inclusion submitted to the Global Junior Challenge

 

Research and Resource Centre in the Rural Rwenzori Region, Western Uganda - Johnstone Baguma

 

Global Leader in Equal Access to Digital Education, Uruguay - Julia Peruzzi Tirelli

 

Global Dreamers - Dream a dream with Ein Ganim, Israele - Marsha Goren

Outsourcing ICT education right into the hands of youth, Philippines - Jay Vincent Plaza

 

Comments: Chetan Sharma - Founder and Chairman of Datamation Foundation, India

 

15.00

End of session

21.00

Musical evening

Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome

Conducted by Arianna Ciampoli

Musical direction and arrangements by Conductor Sergio Quarta
With the special partecipation of Chilean artist Hector "Titin" Molina

 

Friday 9 ^th October 2009
Campidoglio City Hall - Julius Caesar Room

10.00

Global Junior Challenge Award Ceremony (by invitation)

 

17.00

Winners of the Global Junior Challenge 2009 will be received by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano