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June 23, 2005
Pour Me Some More Coffee....
It's 4:30pm here in Seoul, and we're just wrapping up our afternoon coffee break. I needed to have two stiff cups of java just to avoid an embarassing series of yawns back in the conference room; a 13-hour timezone shift can be really tough on the body, particularly during the first day.
It's been a jam-packed day of keynotes and panels, with more speeches in one day than I hear in some entire conferences. Lunch was served in a grand ballroom a few floors down from the plenary hall; I enjoyed a random assortment of sushis and pickled vegetables while chatting with Robert Sagun from the WSIS Youth Caucus, Cosmas Zavazava of the ITU and Rita Tsering from UN Volunteers.
Right now, Ahmad Farshid Ghyasi of UNDP Afghanistan is talking about ICT initiatives in his country. We'll also hear from speakers from Bulgaria, Burundi, Korea and Nepal in this session. I may try to record a few more sessions, but right now I have a backlog of recordings made during the morning session that I'll have to edit and post later. -andy
Posted by acarvin at June 23, 2005 3:29 AM
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