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Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2009, 3-5 June 2009, Bonn, Germany

Tuesday, 2 June
5.00 pm   Beethoven´s birthplace and the historical "Em Höttche" restaurant
                (Optional program, registration necessary).
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Wednesday, 3 June
9.30 a.m. 
Registration
11.00 a.m. 
Opening ceremony (Plenary Chamber)

Opening Address:
Erik Bettermann
Director-General, Deutsche Welle

Welcome Addresses:
Günter Nooke
Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office

Andreas Krautscheid
Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and Media at the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
11.30 a.m. 
Keynote Speech Soon-Hong Choi
Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer, United Nations

Keynote Speech Howard Rheingold
Author and Professor at Stanford and Berkeley
"Cooperation, Conflict, and Participatory Media"

Welcome Adress
Bärbel Dieckmann
Lady Mayor of Bonn
1.00 p.m. 
Lunch
2.30 p.m. 
Workshops/Panels/Presentations:
4.00 p.m. 
Coffee break
4.30 p.m. 
Workshops/Panels/Presentations:
6.30 p.m. 
Boat trip and dinner (5 min. walk)
Thursday, 4 June
8.30 a.m. 
Registration
9.30 a.m. 
Plenary Session
 
11.00 a.m. 
Coffee break
11.30 a.m. 
Workshops/Panels/Presentations:
1.00 p.m. 
Lunch
2.30 p.m. 
Workshops/Panels/Presentations:
4.00 p.m. 
Coffee break
4.30 p.m. 
Workshops/Panels/Presentations:
 
6.07 p.m. 
7.00 p.m. 
Reception at Deutsche Welle
Friday, 5 June
8.30 a.m. 
Registration
9.30 a.m. 
Workshops/Panels/Presentations:
11.00 a.m. 
Coffee break
11.30 a.m. 
Workshops/Panels/Presentations:
1.00 p.m. 
Closing ceremony (Plenary Chamber)
1.30 p.m. 
Lunch reception hosted by the City of Bonn
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (10 min. walk) 
3.00 p.m. 
Castle "Schloss Drachenburg" and "Siebengebirge" hills
(Optional program, registration necessary)
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3-5 June 2009 exhibition "Blurring the Lines"

In cooperation with the German section of Reporters Without Borders, the exhibition of photographs entitled "Blurring the Lines" will be on display in the Rhine Lobby of the World Conference Center Bonn during the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2009.

The exhibition includes eight series by renowned photographers focussing on eastern Europe and Central Asia, capturing elements of social upheaval in states formerly part of the Soviet Union. In places like Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia/Abkhazia, Chechnya, Russia and Ukraine they document moments when the old is confronted with or juxtaposed upon the new. Viewers are confronted with the dramatic changes that occurred and are still unfolding throughout these countries, their far-reaching political and personal consequences and the often precarious circumstances of press freedom and freedom of opinion. 

 Hosted by Reporters without Borders