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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE presents ICT Literacy Summit 2003.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast
9 a.m. Summit Opening & Welcome Messages
Brenda Kempster, President Kempster Group
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA
Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Computer Corporation (via Video)
Karen Bruett, Director, Product Development, Dell Computer Corporation and Summit Chair
9:15 a.m. - The National Policy Perspective
Bruce P. Mehlman, Assistant Secretary, Office of Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Commerce
Shelley Hymes, Director, Office of the 21st Century Workforce, U.S. Department of Labor
9:30 a.m. - 21st Century Literacy: Framing The Vision
Judy Woodruff (CNN)
Kathy Bushkin, President, AOL Time Warner Foundation
Safra Catz, Executive Vice President, ORACLE
Kurt Landgraf, CEO, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Dick Osborne, Vice President, Philips Consumer Electronics
John Super, V.P. Strategy & Business Development, PLATO Learning
Astronaut Col. Frederick Gregory (USAF, Ret.) Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics & Space Administration
10:45 a.m. - 21st Century Literacy: Pathfinders
Prof. Barbara O'Connor, Director, Institute for Study of Politics & Media, CSU/Sacramento, Chair, ETS International ICT Literacy Advisory Panel
Don Knezek, CEO, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Marjorie Bynum, Vice President, Workforce Development, Information Tech Association of America (ITAA)
Joe Simpson, Deputy for Leadership Services and Professional Development, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Tina Sung, CEO, American Society for Training & Development (ASTD)
Barry McGaw, Director Education Directorate, Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Paris
Dr. Mark Edwards, Superintendent, Henrico County Public Schools, Virginia
Beth B. Buehlmann, Ph.D., Executive Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Workforce Preparation
11:45 a.m. - News conference
12:15 p.m. - 21st Century Literacy: The Promise
Dick Methia, Senior Associate, Kempster Group
Andrea Taylor, President, The Benton Foundation
John Bailey, Director, Technology, US Dept of Education
Dr. Terry Crane, VP for AOL Education and Family Products, Chair of Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Janet Whitla, President, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
Stefanie Sanford, Senior Policy Officer, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Elsa Macias, Dir., Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (author, Latinos and Information Technology: The Promise and the Challenge)
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 804-741-9081
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Japan and Korea Studies holds a program "Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of U. S.-ROK Alliance: Strategic Realignment Around the Korean Peninsula and Tasks for New U. S. and South Korean Leadership"
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:15 a.m. - Introductory Remarks
Edwin J. Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation
8:30 a.m. - Session 4: How should ROK and US cooperate in dealing with North Korea?
Moderator: Yoo, Kun-Il (Chief Editor, Chosun Daily)
Presenters: Moon, Chung-In (Yonsei University)
Peter Brookes (Heritage Foundation)
Discussants: Robert Einhorn (Senior advisor at CSIS)
Ha, Young-Sun (Seoul National University)
10:35 a.m. - Session 5: What are the future tasks for building a constructive US -- ROK alliance?
Moderator: Karl Jackson (SAIS)
Presenters: Former US ambassador Wendy Sherman, Former Commander in
Chief of the UMC Robert Sennewald, Former ROK ambassadors Kim, Kyung-Won, Hyun, Hong-Choo
12:30 p.m. - Samuel R. Berger, Former National Security Advisor to President Clinton
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS holds its 71st Winter Meeting. The meeting will focus on key issues related to both Economic Security and Homeland Security. The Conference of Mayors will bring forward an economic investment agenda, and continue to push for direct homeland security/first responder resources for cities.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-293-7330
WEB ADDRESS: usmayors.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: FAMILIES USA holds a conference themed Health Action 2003.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Plenary: Ending Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Dr. Robert K. Ross, President and CEO of the California Endowment
Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Institute for Health Policy, Mass. General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
3:45 p.m. - Special Presentation - Governor Howard Dean of Vermont
4:15 p.m. - Plenary: Changes Ahead: The Private Insurance Market and Employer-Provided Coverage moderated by Susan Dentzer, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Woodrow Myers, WellPoint Health Networks
Helen Darling, Wash. Business Group on Health
Karen Pollitz, Georgetown Institute for Health
Care Research & Policy
Louise Novotny, Communications Workers of America
8 p.m. - Special Cabaret Performance:
The Famous Satirists - The Capitol Steps
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-3030
WEB ADDRESS: familiesusa.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH holds a program on North Korea & US Nonproliferation Obligations.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president, IEER
Nicole Deller, co-author, of the Book Rule of Power Or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-270-5500
WEB ADDRESS: ieer.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE holds a background briefing to preview a new DNC State of the Union Report.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: Democratic National Committee, 7th Floor Conference Room, 888 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-863-8148
WEB ADDRESS: dnc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on What Should the United States Do about North and South Korea?
WHO: The speakers are:
Ted Galen Carpenter, Author, Peace and Freedom: Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic and Vice President for Foreign Policy and Defense Studies
Doug Bandow, Author, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: B-338 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Andrew Nagorski
Senior Editor, Newsweek International discussing "Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in Central and Eastern Europe"
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: ICC 462, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds leadership forum on Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for U.S. Policy in Northeast Asia featuring William J. Perry, Co-director of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project; former Secretary of Defense and Special Advisor on North Korean Relations.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Anne Watts & Boister a contemporary chamber ensemble performing an original score accompaniment for Buster Keaton's classic silent film Steamboat Bill, Jr.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents epidemiologist Devra Davis examining the myriad health impacts of air pollution-various cancers, heart disease, and asthma, to name a few-in When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
