05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Upon leaving the NED Board, Mort Abramowitz was presented with the Democracy Service Medal. Abramowitz served on the NED board for nine years, the maximum term allowed, and made invaluable contributions as the Board expert at different times for NED’s Central and Eastern Europe and Asia programs.
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Esther Dyson, longtime analyst of the IT and Internet worlds and author of the blog "Release 0.9," addressed the topic, "A Virtualist Tours the World: The Internet and the Emergence of Democracy," at the New York Democracy Forum.
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Sponsored by: The Albert Shanker Institute,The American Federation of Teachers
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Developmental Studies and Professor of Political Sociology, The American University, Cairo, gave a Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on heading towards Islamic democracies
