An honorary session entitled, "Preparing the Young Generations in the Digital Age: A Shared Responsibility," will discuss how IGF 2009 has created "Opportunities For All", with a special focus on young people, as the primary users and innovators of the Internet.  Through a synthesis of the past 3 days activities, the session illustrates the way young people were integrated in the debates on diversity, openness, privacy and development, and most importantly on empowerment and online safety issues.  The session demonstrates the vision and achievements in e-safety and global challenges facing the international community in this particular area. 

Agenda of the session:

I.  Introduction  and Welcome for H.E The First Lady of Egypt: Dr. Tarek Kamel Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

II. Keynote Speech:  H.E Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt.

President and Founder of the Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement

III. Acknowledgement: Mr Sha Zukang

Under- Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, UN 

IV.  International Panel

Moderator: Dr. Hoda Baraka First Deputy to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt. 

Distinguished Panelists: 

• Ambassador David Gross, former U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the U.S. Department of State.
• Mr. John Carr, Secretary of The Children's Charities Coalition on Internet   Safety, UK 
• Ms. Marilyn Cade,  President, ICT   Strategies, mCADE LLC

• Mr. Robert Pepper, Vice President Global Technology Policy Cisco.

• Mr. Jovan Kurbalija, founding director of Diplo Foundation (Malta/Geneva) and a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance
   

V.  Signature of MOUs:

• Family Online Safety Institute FOSI:

     MoU to be signed by David Miles, Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa (Download Press Release)

• IBM:

     MoU to be signed by: Eng. Amr Ghoneim, General Manager – IBM Egypt

• Microsoft - 2CENTER:

     MoU to be signed by: Ayman Abdel Latif, GM, Microsoft Egypt

• Oracle:

     MoU to be signed by: Eng. Hussein Hamza, General Manager – Oracle Egypt

VI.  Acknowledging Young People's Efforts:

• For peer to peer efforts in carrying the safety message throughout Egypt: 

Nada Rady on behalf of the Net Aman group.

• For knowledge generation and a distinctive teaching methodology on Internet issues: 

Jovan Kurbalija on behalf of Diplo Foundation.

• For engaging actively young talent in the field of ICT4D: 

Rajiv Ramakrishnan, Natasha Ghent- Rodriguez, and Mohamed Fathy

On behalf of the UN GAID e-leaders Committee for ICT and Development