Twelfth session of the Regional Conference on
Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Santo Domingo, 15-18 October 2013
ORDER OF THE DAY
Wednesday, 16 October
Salón Santo Domingo
9 - 11 a.m.
Panel 2: Policies on access to information and communications technologies
Moderator: Eleonora Menicucci, Minister of the Secretariat on Policies for
Women of Brazil
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Erlinda Handal Vega, Vice-Minister of Science and Technology of El
Salvador
Rowland Espinosa, Vice-Minister of Telecommunications in the
Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa
Rica
Cecilia Castaño Collado, Co-Director of the Masters Programme on
gender equality in social sciences, Complutense University of Madrid
Jeannette Paillán, Chair of the Latin American Indigenous Peoples’
Cinema and Communications Network (CLACPI), Chile
11 - 11.30 a.m.
Coffee break
11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Panel 2 (continued)
Statements by the countries
1 - 2.45 p.m.
Break
1.05 - 2.35 p.m.
Side event “Improving women’s health through innovation in information
and communications technologies”, organized by the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),
with the support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Fund (UNESCO), the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health
Network (RSMLAC), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
Side event “Gender and ICTs project: an integrated strategy for closing the
digital gender gap”, organized by the Centre for Women’s Research and
Action (CIPAF) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) (Salón Tobago-Bahamas)
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2.45 - 4.30 p.m.
Panel 4: Enterprise in the production sector
Moderator: Yanira Argueta, Executive Director of the Salvadoran Institute
for the Development of Women (ISDEMU), El Salvador (to be confirmed)
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José Armando Flores Alemán, Minister of Economic Affairs of El Salvador
Martha Lucía Vásquez Zawadzky, Executive President of the National
Association of Business Women and Women Entrepreneurs of Colombia
Rocío Mantilla Goyzueta, Managing Director of Platería Rocío of Peru
Statements by the countries
4.30 - 5 p.m.
Coffee break
5 - 6.15 p.m.
Panel 6: Women and science
Moderator: Wanda Vázquez Garced, Women’s Advocate of Puerto Rico
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Carolina Cosse, President of the National Telecommunications
Administration (ANTEL) of Uruguay
Herminia Rodríguez Pacheco, Researcher, Centre for Women’s Studies,
Federation of Cuban Women
Gloria Bonder, Director of the Gender, Society and Policies Area of the
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) of Argentina
Statements by the countries
6.30 - 8 p.m.
Side event “ISOQUITO recharged”, organized by Articulación Feminista
Marcosur
La Torre, 5th floor
8 p.m.
Reception hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC)