The IFIP AGORA Initiative Planning committee: Bernard Cornu, Raymond Morel, Tom van Weert and Jan Wibe. Reminder the spirit of this initiative: The IFIP Agora initiative is part of a process of revitalisation of the strategy of the International Federation for Information Processing. As we start moving from an informatics society to an information or knowledge society we see transversal themes emerging, that are not just technology based. Examples are the themes of Lifelong learning, Security and Trust, Ethics and Citizen Education that have been discussed at the Summit on the Information Society, both in Geneva and Tunis.

The IFIP AGORA Initiative The Agora initiative aims : to implement a dynamic methodology for initiating cooperation projects on Lifelong Learning with stakeholders such as UNESCO, UNITAR, the Digital Solidarity Fund and other IFIP Technical committees. The methodology takes into account that there is not one solution to Lifelong Learning and also that a lot of preliminary work still has to be done on issues such as reference competencies for LLL, e-portfolio and competency recognition, before effective implementation of LLL can be made a reality.

The IFIP AGORA Initiative Agora planning meetings provide a forum for: : Sharing knowledge, Facilitating networking of stakeholders and developing synergy, Outlining cooperative projects to address the issues in the framework of main international programmes, Defining a work process for continued planning and cooperation.

The first AGORA conference Poitiers, France October 26 – 27, 2006 Participants: Klaus Brunnstein, IFIP President Bernard Cornu, Secretary of TC3 (organiser) Dong Yoon Kim, IFIP Vice-President Mike Kendall, Vice-chair SIG 3.8 Zdena Lustigova, Vice-Chair WG 3.6 Johannes Magenheim, WG 3.1 Raymond Morel, special consultant to TC3 (moderator) Vittorio Midoro, Programme Chair WCC 2008 Sindre Røsvik, Chair WG 3.5 and Programme Chair WCCE 2009 Sigrid Schubert, Vice-chair elect WG 3.1 Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo, Vice-chair WG 3.5 Tom van Weert, Vice-chair of TC3 (moderator) Jan Wibe, Chair IFIP Technical Committee 3. Full Report:

Projects: (after the first AGORA conference) Three project proposals: A:digital solidarity (crossing the digital divide) Chair: Sigrid Schubert, vice-chair WG B:an IFIPWIKI as demonstration within IFIP Chair to be appointed. C:IFIP Seminar on Lifelong Learning (in connection with WITFOR 2007 Chair: Mike Kendall, vice-chair SIG 3.8. Preliminary draft by Jan Wibe

Projects A and B 1: Establish a project group. Responsible: Project chair. 2: Involving other TC’s Responsible: TC3 chair. 3: Project plan with timeschedule 4: Budget and funding

A dynamic Agenda for AGORA in Planning meeting for WITFOR seminar, Paris, France April 18 – 20, 2007 Bernard Cornu and Jan Wibe 2nd AGORA conference, Seoul, Korea June 4 – 6, 2007 Dong Yoon Kim and Jan Wibe IFIP Seminar, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia August 13 – 18, 2007 Mike Kendall TC 3 meeting, Praha, Czech Republic September 29 – 30, 2007 Bernard Cornu and Jan Wibe

A dynamic Agenda for AGORA Third AGORA conference, Poitiers, France October 22 – 27, 2007 Core Committee WCC 2008 WCCE 2009 IFIP 50th Anniversary 2010 Thanks for your attention

AGORA documents To be found at: It contains the following documents: Report Poitiers Events Draft Budget Project A: Description Project A Project B Meeting and Seminar in Korea Handout Council AGORA seminar before WITFOR Draft proposal Budget Event Request Form