Jamaica Agenda
- January 26, 2012
- 7:45 am - 8:15 amRegistration
- 8:00 am - 8:30 amGreetings & RemarksHon Dr Philip Paulwell, Minister of Mining, Energy & ICT
- 8:15 am - 8:30 amLocal Welcome & RemarksProf Evan Duggan, Executive Director, Mona School of Business
- 8:30 am - 9:00 amPlenary: Open Data -- The New RevolutionDr Tariq Khokhar, World Bank Open Data Evangelist
- 9:00 am - 9:20 amSample Caribbean Problem Spaces: Local & Regional
- 9:20 am - 10:00 amCode Sprint Briefing & Start of Coding!
- 10:30 am - 10:55 amCataloguing National Data Resources: Finding the right balance between Freedom of Information, Access and PrivacyMs. Sonia Jackson, Director
General, STATIN
- 11:15 am - 11:30 amA Presentation of the Edward Seaga Database CollectionThe Most Hon Edward Seaga,
Distinguished Fellow, UWI
- 11:35 am - 12:00 pmGIS Solutions for National Challenges: Mobilizing Jamaica’s geospatial resourcesCecille Blake, National GIS
coordinator, Spatial Data
Management Division
- 12:00 pm - 1:30 pmOpen Floor / LUNCH
- 1:30 pm - 2:10 pmAn Emerging Role for the Mathematical and Information Sciences in DevelopmentProf Garth Baker, Director of Research for the Caribbean Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS)
- 2:15 pm - 2:55 pmThe Training of Engineers in Software Production for Commercialization and Export: The UCI ExperienceJose Ortiz Rojas, Dean, University of Informatics Sciences (UCI), Havana, Cuba
- 3:00 pm - 3:40 pmFOSS Adoption in the public sector: Free Software Viability in developing countriesAllan Pierra Fuente, Cuban Government's Assessor in Free and Open Source Software migration
- 3:40 pm - 3:50 pmCoffee Break
- 3:40 pm - 4:30 pmPanel: The Role of the ICT sector in national developmentHugo Daley, CEO, Trancel
Ingrid Riley, Founder/CEO, Connectimass
Michael Rosberg, Director, Institute of Social Equity & Entrepreneurship, University College of The Caribbean Michele Maurius, JAMPRO
- January 27, 2012
- 8:30 am - 9:05 amBeing a civic hackerEric Mill, Developer, Sunlight Foundation
- 9:10 am - 9:45 amUser Experience Design and Successful AdoptionRoger Davis, Jamaica Design Association
- 9:50 am - 10:25 amManaging Successful Migration to Open Source Platforms: An Adapted MethodologyAngel Goñi Oramas, Founder and former leader of Nova Cuban GNU/Linux Distribution, Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, Havana, Cuba
- 10:25 am - 10:35 amCoffee Break
- 10:35 am - 11:10 amBuilding online GIS applications via the Web : Experiences with Server- and Client-side open source tools Jean-Mark Wright, GIS
Programmer, Mona
GeoInformatics Institute, UWI
- 11:15 am - 11:50 amDesign Patterns and Taking your development to the next levelKhary Sharpe, CEO, Bakari Digital / Founder, Jamaica Developers Association
- 11:55 am - 12:25 pm"The state of mobile development in Jamaica & The Caribbean"...Perspectives from a DeveloperDamon Dailey, CEO/Founder, Software Architects
- 12:00 pm - 12:00 pmEnd Of Coding
- 12:25 pm - 1:30 amLUNCH
- 1:30 pm - 2:00 pmSlashroots year in review: "Building the ecosystem to support the innovation"Matthew McNaughton, Co-Founder, SlashRoots Developer Community
- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmCode Sprint App Presentation
- 3:30 pm - 4:00 pmTeams Q&APanel of Judges also deliberate
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlenary: Announcement of Awards, Summary Presentations & Closing Remarks
