11 October 2013
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Twelfth session of the Regional Conference on
Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Santo Domingo, 15-18 October 2013
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 15 October
8 - 8.45 a.m.
Registration (Business Center)
9 - 9.15 a.m.
Gran Salón
Election of officers and adoption of the agenda
9.15 - 10.15 a.m.
Opening of the twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin
America and the Caribbean
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Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Remarks by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the United
Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women)
Remarks by Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO)
Remarks by Eleonora Menicucci, Minister of the Secretariat on Policies for
Women of Brazil
Remarks by Alejandrina Germán, Minister for Women’s Affairs of the
Dominican Republic
Remarks by Danilo Medina, President of the Dominican Republic
10.15 - 10.45 a.m.
Cultural activity
10.45 - 11.15 a.m.
Coffee break
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11.15 - 11.30 a.m.
Reading of the civil society declaration
11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Presentation of the position paper “Women in the Digital Economy: Breaking
through the equality threshold”, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
1 - 2.45 p.m.
Break
2.45 - 4.30 p.m.
Gran Salón
Round table: Production and equality
Moderator: Alejandrina Germán, Minister for Women’s Affairs of the
Dominican Republic
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Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, Vice-President of the Dominican Republic
Mayi Antillón Guerrero, Minister of Economic Affairs, Industry and
Commerce of Costa Rica
Mario Cimoli, Chief of the Division of Production, Productivity and
Management of ECLAC
Ángela M. Camacho, Associate General Counsel for Microsoft Latin America
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, President of the European Union, Latin America
and the Caribbean Foundation
4.30 - 5 p.m.
Coffee break
5 - 6 p.m
Round table (continued)
Statements by the countries
Wednesday, 16 October
9 - 11 a.m.
Gran Salón
Panel 1: Work and employment in information and communication technologies
Moderator: Lorena Cruz Sánchez, President of the National Women’s Institute
of Mexico
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Bernadette Lewis, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications
Union
Temístocles Montás, Minister of Economic Affairs, Planning and
Development of the Dominican Republic
Bárbara Geraldo de Castro, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences of
the State University at Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
Jennifer Webster, Minister of Human Services and Social Security of the
Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security of Guyana
Salón Santo Domingo
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
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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.
Gran Salón
Panel 1 (continued)
Statements by the countries
Salón Santo Domingo
Panel 2 (continued)
Statements by the countries
1 - 2.45 p.m.
Break
1.05 - 2.35 p.m.
Salón Santo Domingo
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)
Salón Tobago-Bahamas
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).
2.45 - 4.30 p.m.
Gran Salón
Panel 3: Challenges and risks of information and communication technologies
for equality
Moderator: Colin Riley, Minister of Health and Social Services of Montserrat
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Jermaine Jewel Jean-Pierre, Director of the Information and
Communication Technology Unit of Dominica
Magaly Pineda, Research Centre for Feminist Action (CIPAF) of the
Dominican Republic
Alex Sánchez, Spokesperson of the Governing Board of the Panamanian
Chamber of Information and Telecommunications Technologies (CAPATEC)
Marta Trzcinska, Managing Director of the Legal Advice for Women
Organization (JURK) of Norway
Statements by the countries
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Salón Santo Domingo
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.
Gran Salón
Panel 5: Statistics and indicators on information and communication
technologies and gender
Moderator: Nigeria Rentería Lozano, Presidential Adviser in the Office of the
Advisory Council for Women’s Equity of Colombia (to be confirmed)
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Pablo Tactuk, Director of the National Statistical Office of the
Dominican Republic
Martin Schaaper, Science and technology specialist at the UNESCO
Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Elizabeth Talbert, Deputy Director of the Economics and Statistics Office
of the Cayman Islands
Statements by the countries
Salón Santo Domingo
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.
Salón Santo Domingo
Side event “ISOQUITO recharged”, organized by Articulación Feminista Marcosur
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Thursday, 17 October
9 - 11 a.m.
Gran Salón
Panel 7: Women in business
Moderator: Markelda Montenegro de Herrera, Director-General of the National
Women’s Institute of Panama
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Karla Blanco, Director of Corporate Affairs of Intel for Central America
and the Caribbean and gender initiatives coordinator for Latin America
Ylva Johansson, Member of the Parliament of Sweden
María Ángeles Sallé, Chair of Fundación Directa and Managing Partner of
Enred Consultoría, Spain/Panama
Rosario Mamani Apaza, Fundación FAUTAPO, Plurinational State of Bolivia
Salón Santo Domingo
Panel 8: Access to digital assets, land and credit
Moderator: Marcela Huaita Alegre, Vice-Minister for Women’s Affairs and
Vulnerable Populations of Peru
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Raúl Katz, Adjunct Professor, Division of Finance and Economics of
Columbia University, United States
Carmen Diana Deere, Professor of Food and Resource Economics and Latin
American Studies at the University of Florida, United States
Renata Leite, Coordinator General de Production Organization and
Marketing Organization of the Department of Policies for Women of the
Ministry of Agricultural Development of Brazil
Félix Vélez Fernández Varela, Vice-President of the Demographic and
Social Information Subsystem of the National Institute of Statistics and
Geography (INEGI) of Mexico
11 - 11.30 a.m.
Coffee break
11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Gran Salón
Panel 7 (continued)
Statements by the countries
Salón Santo Domingo
Panel 8 (continued)
Statements by the countries
1 - 2.45 p.m.
Break
1.05 - 2.35 p.m.
Side event “Interaction of gender and ethnic inequalities in access to ICTs:
obstacles and best practices for indigenous women’s empowerment”, organized
by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women (UN-Women), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) (jointly with
indigenous women’s networks)
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Salón Tobago-Bahamas
Side event “Ciudad Mujer: integrated services for women’s empowerment”,
organized by the Salvadoran Institute for the Development of Women
(ISDEMU), Ciudad Mujer and the Gender and Diversity Division of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB)
2.45 - 4 p.m.
Gran Salón
Round table on Beijing+20: outlook and challenges
Moderator: Sonia Montaño, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC
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Gisela Alonso, President of the Environment Agency of Cuba
Diane Quarless, Chief of the ECLAC subregional headquarters for
the Caribbean
Moni Pizani, Director of the Regional Centre for Latin America and the
Caribbean of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) (to be confirmed)
Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director of the African Centre for Gender and Social
Development of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
4 - 4.30 p.m.
Coffee break
4.30 - 6 p.m.
Gran Salón
Round table (continued)
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María Ángeles Durán, Research Professor at the Institute for Economics,
Geography and Demography of the Centre for Human and Social
Sciences, Spain
Sergia Galván, Executive Director of Colectiva Mujer y Salud,
Dominican Republic
Eleonora Menicucci, Minister of the Secretariat on Policies for Women
of Brazil
Statements by the countries
6.30 - 8 p.m.
Salón Santo Domingo
Side event “Policies for rural women: economic autonomy, fulfilment of rights
and the fight against hunger”, organized by the Regional Office for Latin
America and the Caribbean of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO)
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Friday, 18 October
9 - 11 a.m.
Plenary meeting
11 - 11.30 a.m.
Coffee break
11.30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Plenary meeting (continued)
1.30 - 3.30 p.m.
Break
3.30 - 6 p.m.
Consideration and adoption of the Santo Domingo Consensus
4.30 - 5 p.m.
Coffee break
6 - 6.30 p.m.
Closing ceremony