Date | Activities |
2008/02/15 | Friday | |
| AM / PM | Arrival of Retreat Participants. Check-in International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
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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 themselves
Briefing. Role of Fellows and Expected Output, Role of Facilitators and Resource Persons
Role 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, Nippon Foundation
The Nippon Foundation Group and Case Studies of Global Philanthropy”
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: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 - Welcome Remarks: Shuichi Ohno
- 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, ASEAN
Q & 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 Business
Singapore 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
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| 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 |
