Program

Monday, July 2

9:00 Registration for the Workshop

9:30 Opening and Welcome

  • Prof. Francisco Javier Simó Reigadas (URJC)
  • Prof. David Chávez Muñoz (PUCP)
  •  Regional Health Director of Cuzco or Cusco South Network

10:30 Master conference: “A Decade of Sustainability: From India to Liberia”. Michael Best (Georgia Institute of Technology).

11:45 Coffee break

12:00 Session 1: Infrastructures sustainability of communications in remote areas of difficult access.

  • Experiences and Perspectives: EHAS 2011, telecommunications health systems for rural areas of Peru. Victor Andres Ayma Quirita.
  • Models of sustainability of private wireless networks in remote rural areas. Experience from PUCP GTR. Juan Antonio Paco Fernandez.

13:00 Lunch

15:30 Session 2: Infrastructures sustainability of communications in remote areas of difficult access.

  • Information and communication systems and technologies working running on telecommunication networks for rural areas, the double challenge of sustainability. Deployment scenarios in the Peruvian mountains and jungle. Benjamin Pacheco Rolando Castañeda, Shirley Kelly Bashualdo Pazos.
  • SIL: Local Information System, proposal for local development and sustainability in the Napo river basins in Loreto, Peru. Isaac Ocampo, Luis Calcina and Hernan Tello.

16:00: Round table composed of regional experts: Sustainability of Rural Networks oriented to Health Services and Telemedicine. Moderator: Fco Javier Simó Reigadas.

  • Dr. Wilder Arbildo Rojas – Director of the Telemedicine office (DIRESA Loreto)
  • Dr. Arturo Janqui Guzmán – Executive Director of Kimbiri Pichani health network (DIRESA Cusco)
  • Ing. David Chávez – General Director of rural telecommunications group Director General Grupo de Telecomunicaciones Rurales (PUCP)

18:00 Conclusions of the day

Tuesday, July 3

Visit to Cusco Sur network.

07:00 Departure from Cusco

08:00 Departure from Pisaq

11:00 Arrival to Acomayo It will be visited the Municipality, the police station and Tomasa Tito school.

13:30 Lunch

14.30 Visit to relay station Huascar

16:00 Return

19:00 Pisaq

20:00 Cusco

Wednesday, July 4

9:30 Presentation of “Intégrame” project. Arturo Otoya Camino (Rural Projects Manager, Telefónica Peru).

10:00 Presentation of the project Mobile Proyecto System Mobile Emergency Care- SAMU. Igor Zlatar Castratt (Director of Business Solutions and Strategic Outsourcing, Telefónica Peru)

10:30 Presentation of Albentia Systems. The vision of a wireless communications technology manufacturer for maintenance and exploitation of a rural network. Elmer Farro (Albentia Systems Manager in Peru)

11:00 Session 3: Exploitation models of ICT deployment in rural areas.

  • “Towards a sustainable business model for rural telephony”.  Zukile Roro, Masbulele Jay Siya, Javier Simo-Reigadas, Nicola J. Bidwell, William D. Tucker.
  • Telefónica, sustainability strategy.

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 Master conference: “Appropriate technology and innovative business models to scale up rural broadband coverage”. Mark Summer (Inveneo).

13:00 Lunch

15:30 Round Table 2: The political budgets and the promotion of the technology for development. Moderator: Ignacio Prieto Egido (EHAS Foundation).

  • Luis Montes Bazalar – Technical secretary ( FITEL)
  • Arturo Otoya Camino – Rural projects manager (Telefónica)
  • Mr. Hernán Tello Fernández – Programme Director BIOINFO (Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon).

17:00 Event conclusions

17:30 Closing remarks

  • Prof. Francisco Javier Simó Reigadas (URJC)
  • Prof. David Chávez Muñoz (PUCP)
  • Regional President, Rector National University San Antonio Abad of Cuzco or Vice Chancellor for Research PUCP