[CCIH-NEWS] Participate today via your computer in White House Summit on Development

[MartinRS at aol.com]

If you have a computer with the capability of handling webcasts, you can  
participate in an all day meeting today which will include remarks by President  
Bush and President Johnson of Liberia and other top level U.S.  Government 
officials and development experts.  The theme of the conference,  which begins 
today at 8:30 am Eastern time, is White House Summit on International 
Development: Sustaining the New Era.  The President of Catholic Relief Services, a CCIH 
member, is one of the panel  participants.
 
The program is shown below. To watch in real time, go to 
_www.whitehousesummit.org_ (http://www.whitehousesummit.org)  and click on  "View the Live 
Webcast." 
 
Summit Agenda: Tuesday, October 21,  2008    8:30 am  Remarks by Ellen 
Johnson Sirleaf, President of  Liberia, on the Importance of Country Ownership and 
Good  Governance   Introduction by Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, United 
States  Department of State  9:00 am Plenary One: Country Ownership   Panel 
Discussion on Successful Examples of Country  Ownership
Moderated by Ambassador Mark Dybul, United States Global AIDS  Coordinator, 
United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,  United States 
Department of State 
Panel Participants: 
    *   Congressman Chris Smith, United States House of Representatives (R/NJ 
 4th)  
    *   Dr. Sayed Mohammad Amin Fatimie, Minister of Public Health, Islamic  
Republic of Afghanistan  
    *   Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye, Member, Parliament of Uganda, and Chair,  
Parliamentary Committee on HIV/AIDS and Related Matters  
    *   Michael Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign 
Relations  

10:15 am  Plenary Two: Good Governance   Panel Discussion on Effective 
Strategies for Fostering Good  Governance
Moderated by Henrietta Holsman Fore, Administrator, United  States Agency for 
International Development 
Panel Participants:

    *   Congressman Donald Payne, United States House of Representatives 
(D/NJ  10th)  
    *   William A. Swope, Corporate Vice President and General Manager,  
Corporate Affairs Group, INTEL Corporation  
    *   Monica Macovei, Anti-Corruption Consultant to the Prime Minister of  
Macedonia  
    *   Nancy Zucker Boswell, President and Chief Executive Officer,  
Transparency International - USA  
    *   Petko Georgiev, Director, Broadcast Training Center ProMedia 
Foundation  

1:15 pm  Remarks By President George W. Bush   Introduction by Ellen Johnson 
Sirleaf, President of  Liberia  2:00 pm Plenary Three: Results-Based Programs 
And  Accountability   Panel Discussion on Accountability: A Shared 
Responsibility for  Success
Moderated by Admiral R. Timothy Ziemer, President's Malaria  Initiative 
Coordinator, United States Agency for International  Development 
Panel Participants: 
    *   Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health, Federal 
Democratic  Republic of Ethiopia  
    *   Dr. Jean William Pape, Director and Founder, GHESKIO Centers  
    *   Dr. Uche Amazigo, Director, World Health Organization African 
Programme  for Onchocerciasis (river blindness) Control 

3:15 pm  Remarks by Bob Geldof  3:30 pm Plenary Four: Economic Growth
Panel One Discussion on Reducing Poverty through Economic  Growth
Moderated by Ambassador John J. Danilovich, Chief Executive  Officer, Millenn
ium Challenge Corporation 
Panel Participants: 
    *   Ken Hackett, President, Catholic Relief Services  
    *   Sofia Mohapi, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Account - 
 Lesotho  
    *   Ritu Sharma Fox, President and Co-Founder, Women Thrive Worldwide  
    *   Dr. Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Director General, Millennium Challenge  
Account - Nicaragua 
Panel Two Discussion on Trade and Investment Liberalization: How Open  
Economies and Private Capital Stimulate Growth  
Moderated by Robert Mosbacher, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer,  
Overseas Private Investment Corporation



Panel Participants: 
    *   Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank  
    *   Shari Berenbach, President and Chief Executive Officer, Calvert  
Foundation  
    *   Papa Ndiaye, Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Finance and Investment 
 Group  
    *   Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International 
Economics  

5:30 pm  Closing Remarks by Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant to  the President 
for National Security Affairs, The White  House
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