Timetable

09:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee

10:00 a.m. Opening Session

Welcome
Dr. Roland Gerschermann, Managing Director, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany
Dr. Sebastian Paust, Chief Executive Officer, InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany

Opening Address
Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz, State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

10:30 a.m. Keynotes

Solana Larsen, Managing Editor of Global Voices, focusing on countries outside of Europe and North America, USA
Steven Lang, Editor-in-Chief, of Grocott’s Mail in Grahamstown, trend-setting in citizen journalism, South Africa

11:30 a.m. Coffee Break

12:00 p.m. Panel

Host: Sigrun Rottmann, BBC World Service Radio

Discussion with
Werner D’Inka, Member of the Board of Editors-in-Chief of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

Daoud Kuttab, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of AmmanNet, the Arab world’s first Internet radio, Jordan

Ritu Kapur, Editorial and executive producer of The Citizen Journalist Show at CNN-IBN, India

Rezwanul Islam, Editor of Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices, Bangladesh

Richard Kavuma, editor with The Observer newspaper, Kampala Uganda.

Saqib Riaz, Assistant Professor at the Department of Mass Communication, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan

14:00 p.m. Reception

Conference languages: German and English