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Information and Communication Technology in the Arctic: Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Development, Education and Telemedicine An International Conference of the Arctic Council Akureyri, Iceland, 20–21 October, 2003 Final Program and Agenda Sunday – 19 October Location: Hotel KEA 18:00 – 21:00 Registration 20:00 Reception Welcome remarks from Kristjan Thor Juliusson, Mayor of Akureyri Monday – 20 October Location: University of Akureyri, Oddfellow House.
08:00 08:15 Buses depart Hotel KEA to the Oddfellow House Registration 09:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session 09:00 09:15 09:35 09:55 Chair: Vilhjalmur Ludviksson, Secretary to the Science and Technology Policy Council, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Iceland Opening Valgerdur Sverrisdottir, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Iceland Keynote presentation Svein Ludvigsen, Minister for Nordic Cooperation, Norway Nancy Soreide, Associate Director for IT, NOAA/PMEL/OD, USA Potential of advanced Information Technology to transcend barriers to communication and cooperation in the Arctic Ivan Kurnosov, Deputy Director, Department for Informatization, Russian Ministry of Communications, Russia The current situation with regard to ICT and the future perspective for ICT application for capacity-building in the Russian Arctic 10:15 10:35 10:55 11:15 12:00 12:10 13:20 Coffee break Lasse Jyrkinen, Managing Director, Neagen Oy, Finland A telemedicine business case: radiology service provider Lois Edge, Research and Policy Officer, National Aboriginal Health Organization, Canada Knowledge as a community resource: knowledge-based strategies and capacity building in aboriginal health in Canada Discussion Buses depart the Oddfellow House to the restaurant Lunch at Greifinn Restaurant Buses depart the restaurant to the Oddfellow House 13:30 – 17:00 Parallel Session A: Distance Education Parallel Session B: Telemedicine 13:30 13:50 14:10 14:30 Chair: Klavdia Fedorova, Director, Office of International Relations, Sakha State University, Russia Chair: Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, Medical Director, University Hospital, Akureyri, Iceland Steve Smith, Chief Information Technology Officer, University of Alaska, USA Technological perspective on infrastructure needs in distance education in the Arctic Ingegerd Palmer, Rector of the Luleå University of Technology, Sweden The overview of the current situation with regard to the use of ICT in distance education in an arctic context Steinar Pedersen, Director, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine,
 Norway Experience from using telemedicine for planning the national healthcare Boris Kobrinski, Director, Medical Centre for New IT, Moscow Research Institute for Pediatrics & Child Surgery, Russia/ Matvey Nikolaev, Director, Sakha Centre for Telemedicine, Russia Experience from telemedicine in Northern regions of Russia Lars Kullerud, Director of the University of the Arctic, Norway The experience of the University of the Arctic in the implementation of ICT in capacity-building for the Arctic Paul Sherry, Chief Executive Officer, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, USA Developing large-scale multi-agency, multiple-provider type telehealth solutions for Alaska Wolfgang Greller, Learning Environments Manager, UHI Millennium Institute, Lews Castle College, Scotland, UK Thomas Stensgaard, Chief District Medical Officer, Greenland Homerule, Greenland Experience from providing The challenges of distance education systems in a highly dispersed peripheral higher education institution Coffee break Dan Daniels, Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Education, Culture and Employment with the Government of the Northwest Territories, Canada Indigenous perspectives on distance education Thorsteinn Hallgrimsson, Deputy National Librarian, National and University Library of Iceland Virtual Arctic Research Library Discussion healthcare by telemedicine in rural areas Thorgeir Palsson, Director, Division of Clinical Engineering and Physics, Landspítali - University Hospital of Iceland The overview for using telemedicine and maritime medicine Mats Larson, Managing Director of Carelink, Sweden The value of Healthnet for healthcare Buses depart the Oddfellow House to Hotel KEA Welcome dinner at Hotel KEA at the invitation of the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
Welcoming words by the Minister of Culture (unconfirmed).

14:50 15:10 15:30 15:50 17:00 19:30 Tuesday – 21 October Location: Universtity of Akureyri, Oddfellow House 08:40 Buses depart Hotel KEA to the Oddfellow House 09:00 – 12:00 Summary Session Chair: Thorsteinn Gunnarsson, Rector of the University of Akureyri 09:00 Reports from Sessions.
Rapporteurs: Mead Treadwell, Commissioner, US Arctic Research Commission/ Walter Parker, Chairman, CITF, USA; Sigurjon Myrdal, Associate Professor, Icelandic University of Education, Iceland; Line Linstad, Project Manager, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, Norway 09:30 Round Table Moderator: Høgni Hoydal, Minister for Nordic Cooperation, Faroe Islands Bernard Funston, Executive Secretary, AC SDWG, Canada Rune Sverre Fjellheim, Head of the Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council, Norway Leo Pekkala, Senior Assistant in Media Education, University of Lapland, Finland Clifford Lincoln, Chairman, Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Canada Ellen Brox, Senior Research Scientist and Quality Manager, NORUT IT, Norway Thomas Nighswander, Facilitator for the Alaska Telehealth Advisory Council, USA Valery Stolyar, Head of the Telemedicine Department, Bakulev Cardiovascular Centre, Russia Juha Moring, Medical Director, Department of Psychiatry, Oulu University Hospital, Finland 10:30 11:30 12:00 Discussion Conclusions Buses depart the Oddfellow House to Hotel KEA Departures