Program Schedule – “Building the Common Good in Asia”, February 16-24
| Date | Activities | |
|---|---|---|
| 2008/02/15 | Saturday | |
| AM / PM | Arrival of Retreat Participants. Check-in International Centre Goa, Dona Paula | |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 2008/02/16 | Saturday | |
| AM / PM | Arrival of Retreat Participants. Check-in International Centre Goa, Dona Paula | |
| 5:00 pm | Communication. Knowing One Another.Introductions by Fellows on their countries and themselvesBriefing. Role of Fellows and Expected Output, Role of Facilitators and Resource PersonsRole of the Fantastic 4 Goa Team | |
| 7:00 pm | Welcome Dinner. Venue: Divli Lawn | |
| 2008/02/17 | Sunday | |
| 8:00 am | Orientation. Objectives of the Retreat. Introduction on Breakout Sessions | |
| 9:00 am | Understanding Goa. Tour of Old Goa/Visit to Calizz followed by Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Return to International Centre | |
| 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Interactive Session I: Shuichi Ohno, Executive Director,The Nippon Foundation Group and Case Studies of Global Philanthropy” | |
| :5:00 pm | Planting Ceremony by H.E Surin Pitsuwan | |
| 5:15 pm | Photograph Session | |
| 5:30 pm | OPENING CEREMONY(with invited guests) | |
| – Welcome Lighting of the Lamp | ||
| – Introductory Remarks: M Rajaretnam, BABA Programme Convenor, and Director/Chief Executive, International Centre Goa | ||
| President’s Remarks: Hon. Pratapsingh Rane, President, International Centre Goa, Speaker, Goa State Legislative Assembly and Former Chief Minister, Goa | ||
| 6:00 pm | KEYNOTE ADDRESS:“ASEAN, India and Building a Better Asia”H.E. Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General, ASEANQ & A Session | |
| 7:00 pm | End of Official Opening Ceremony. Reception | |
| 7:15 pm | Cultural Performance in Honor of BABA Participants/Resource Persons/Facilitators and Guests | |
| “Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore in Music and Dance” | ||
| 8:45 pm | End of Performance and followed by Dinner | |
| 2008/02/18 | Monday | |
| 9:00 am | Interactive Session II: “Globalization and the Common Good in Asia”Resource Person: Pang Eng Fong, Vice-Provost for Academic Strategic Planning and Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of BusinessSingapore Management University, Singapore | |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Breakout sessions | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Interactive Session III: “Media and the Common Good in Asia”Resource Person: Tarun Tejpal, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, TEHELKA Weekly, India | |
| 3:30-6:30pm | Breakout Sessions: Exploring Daily Life in Panjim City and Collecting Impressions of Common Good. | |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 2008/02/19 | Tuesday | |
| 9:00 am | Interactive Session IV: “Developing a Sustainable Human Environment in Asia”Resource Person: Tay Kheng Soon, Principal Partner, Akitek Tengarra, Singapore/Malaysia | |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Breakout Sessions. Recomposing/Expressing Sounds Using Sources Collected in Discussions | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:30-6:30pm | Breakout Sessions. “Dula-Tula” Creating Collective Poetry Through Individual Voices | |
| 7:30 pm | River Cruise on the Mandovi/Dinner | |
| 2008/02/20 | Wednesday | |
| 9:00 am | Interactive Session V: Interactive Session V: Promoting Abilities in Asia as a Common Good.Resource Person: P.R. Ramanujam, Professor of Distance Education, Indira Ghandi; National Open University, New Delhi, India | |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Breakout Sessions. Digging Out the Final Keyword | |
| 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 3:00 pm | Free Afternoon | |
| 7:00 pm | Free Evening | |
| 2008/02/21 | Thusday | |
| 8:30 am | Breakout Sessions. Group Work for Final Presentation 1.(May involve field trip if necessary) | |
| 11:00 am | Visit to the Goa State Legislative Assembly, Porvorim | |
| 11:30 am | Interactive Session VI: “Good Governance, the State and the Common Good in Asia”Dialogue with Hon. Pratapsingh Rane, Speaker, Goa State Legislative Assembly and former Chief Minister, Goa | |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00 pm | Interactive Session VII: Interactive Session VII: “Human Security in Asia”Resource Person: Amitav Acharya, Centre for Global Governance,University of Bristol, UK | |
| 3:30 pm | Breakout Sessions. Group Work for Final Presentation 2. | |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner | |
| 2008/02/22 | Friday | |
| “A Day to Unite the Idea of the Common Good in Asia” | ||
| 9am | Group Work for Final Presentation 3. | |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00 pm | Group Work for Final Presentation 4. | |
| 5:00 pm | Break | |
| 6:00 pm | Group Final Presentations | |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner. | |
| 2008/02/23 | Saturday | |
| 9:00am | Group Presentations and Presentation of Joint Communique by BABA Fellows Goa 2008 | |
| 11:30 am | Closing Ceremony – Keynote Address: His Excellency, S.C. Jamir, Governor of Goa- Presentation of Certificates by HE. S.C Jamir- Closing Remarks- Farewell Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | End of Retreat Free Afternoon | |
| 2008/02/24 | Sunday | |
| Departures | ||
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