Dear GKD Members, As most of you know, this online discussion is a lead-up to the physical conference to be held December 12-14, 2004 in San Francisco. Key messages of this discussion will be presented at the Conference, and a CD with summaries of the main discussion threads will be distributed to all registrants of the conference and widely circulated throughout the development community.
With that in mind, we would like to give you an update on the Conference details: The final program for the "Eradicating Poverty through Profit" business conference is nearly set. Please visit <http://povertyprofit.wri.org/program/program.html> for the latest version of the program. (Make sure you refresh your cache to view the dozens of additional speakers confirmed in the past few weeks.) We've added to the impressive list of companies and organizations to be represented at the conference, organized by sector here: http://povertyprofit.wri.org/pdfs/Comps_Rep.pdf Important Reminders * Our special room rate at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Center Hotel - $129 for single or double occupancy - will be available only through November 12. To assure that you receive this low rate, register now at https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=30902 * Don't forget to register! http://povertyprofit.wri.org/registration/registration.html Additional news * Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard and Christopher Rodrigues of Visa International have confirmed their participation as keynote speakers. * The U.S. government G8 working group is now cooperating with the conference organizers to create and deliver the policy track. Preliminary working group descriptions will appear shortly on the program at http://povertyprofit.wri.org/program/program.html * We've added new tracks, and reorganized Tuesday's sessions in order to present more speakers and topics, and to synthesize material from Monday's working groups. Full details at http://povertyprofit.wri.org/program/program.html . * The media continue to produce story after story on conference themes. Please visit <http://povertyprofit.wri.org/news/media_coverage.html> to read a selection of the more prominent stories gathered from the world press. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco. World Resources Institute 10 G Street NE, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20002 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wri.org http://povertyprofit.wri.org ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by USAID's dot-ORG Cooperative Agreement with AED, in partnership with World Resources Institute's Digital Dividend Project, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org and http://www.digitaldividend.org provide more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
