Program :

Tuesday 26 January 2010 :  

08:30-09:30  Registration
09:30-10:00  Official Opening session

• HE/Mrs. Khédija Ghariani, Secretary-General – AICTO. [Speech]
• HE/Mr. Chedly Neffati,  Deputy Secretary-General - League of Arab States. [Speech]
• HE/ Prof. Mohamed Naceur Ammar,
   Minister of Communication Technologies -Tunisia.

10:00 – 10:15 Keynote speech   :

• « Protection of electronic transactions and exchanges»,
   
  Mr. George Sadowsky , Member, Board of Directors, ICANN        

10:15 – 10:30 Keynote speech :

• « e-certification and  PKI : state of the art and prospects »,
  
  Dr. Stephen Kent, Vice President & Chief Scientist - Information Security
   BBN Technologies

10:30 – 10:45   Coffee break

10 :45 – 12 :30 

• Session 1 : « PKI Solutions  and Applications»
  Moderator :

 Mr. Farouk KAMOUN, Professor Emeritus, Chief Research - 
             ESPRIT – Tunisia

- “The Adoption of Internet in the Arab World and E-commerce : survey findings on Internet users security”  ,  
 Mr. Jawad ABBASSI, Founder and General Manager Arab Advisors Group  – Jordan    
- “The role of strong identity in the electronic chain of confidence”  , 
 Mr. Abbie Barbir,  OASIS distinguished contributor of  the year - Canada
- “Microsoft PKI applications” ,
 Mr. Fares Zekri - Microsoft
- “Euro P.K.I projects” ,
 Mr. Tomas Gustavsson, project leader, PrimeKey Solutions AB -Sweden  
- “The Extended Access Control for Machine Readable Travel Documents" ,  Mr. Rafik Chaabouni,  EPFL,  Lausanne -Switzerland  

12:30 – 13 :00 Debate
13:00 – 14:30   Lunch

14 :30 – 15 :30 

• Session 2 :   « Regulatory and legal aspects  »
  Moderator :

 Dr. Bilel JAMOUSSI – Chief, Study Group, ITU-T

- “Electronic signatures and the broader electronic commerce legal framework” , 
 Mr. Luca G. Castellani,  Legal Officer UNCITRAL Secretariat , Office of Legal Affairs -United Nations
- “The legal framework of the digital signature” , 
 Mr. Pierre CATALA, Professor Emeritus, Université Panthéon-Assas – France
- “The Tunisian law on e-commerce exchanges” ,

 Mr. Adel Brahem,  Ministry of Justice and Human Rights – Tunisia

15:30 – 16 :00 Debate
16:00 – 16:15   Coffee break

16:15 – 17:15   

• Session 3 :   « Cybersecurity and Protection of the Basic Information 
                            Infrastructures»
  Moderator : Mr. Nizar BOUGUILA , Chief Technical Officer  -Tunisia Telecom

- “Confidence and security in the use of ICTs”, 

 Mr.Walid Kamal, VP - Security  and Risk Management, “DU” telecom – DUBAI, UAE
- “Protecting information infrastructure in Tunisian Cyberspace ”, 

 Mr. Belhassen Zouari, CEO, ANSI - Tunisia
- “Protecting techniques of Telecommunication networks “, 

 Mr. Georges  Sebek,  Counsellor of ITU-T Study Group 17 on security- ITU

Wednesday 27 January 2010

09:00-10:00

• Session 4 :   « PKI : Real world Deployment and Digital signatures » 
  Moderator : Mr. Mehdi Houas , CEO, TALAN - France

- “Digital signature and PKI deployment in Europe”, 

 Mr.Riccardo Genghini, Consultant The Innovation Group - Milano – Italy
- “The Saudi experience with PKI” , 

 Dr. Fahad A. AlHoymany, Senior Advisor,  Head of NCDC, MCIT – Saudi Arabia
- “Digital signature and PKI deployment : the Egyptian experience” ,  
 Dr. Sherif HAZEM, Manager of E-Signature CA, ITIDA -Egypt
- “Digital signature and PKI deployment : the Tunisian  experience” , 

 Ms. Manel ABDELKADER Chief Certification & PKi Unit, ANCE – Tunisia

10:00 – 10 :30 Debate
10:30 – 10:45   Coffee break

10:45-11:45

• Session 5   « Securing e-transactions »
  Moderator :

 Mr. Hatem MESTIRI, Chief Technology Officer- TUNISIANA

- “Legal and organizational aspects”,

 Mr. Kamel AYARI,ِ Chief WG, Center of Legal and Juridical Studies  – Tunisia
- “ e-payment Solution Security of the Tunisian Post” ,

 Mr. Oussama Rouatbi, Monetics  Manager Tunisian  Post – Tunisia  
-  “Awareness and Training Aspects”,  

 Dr. Hella Kaffel, University of Tunis

11:45-12:15  Debate

12:15-13:15

• Round table 
   « Towards  a Better Interoperability in the Arab Region and an ‘Arab PKI Forum’» 
  Moderator : Mr. Mongi Hamdi, Head, Science, Technology and ICT - UNCTAD.

 

Closing Session :

 

• Recommendations
• Closing Speech : - HE/Mrs. Lamia Chaffai Sghaier, Secretary of State for Information Technology, Internet and Open Source, Ministry of Communication Technologies – Tunisia.