The past decade has been witness to a spate of activities in creating new opportunities, generating employment, making entrepreneurs, triggering creativity and lowering the barriers for virtually anyone with a desire, skill, focus and passion to create wealth and prosperity in their environment. Altogether it has empowered a new generation and extended the frontiers of prosperity. However, only a fraction of its potentially is currently being realized. The Economic Opportunities Commission looks forward to exploring and analyzing new areas that developing societies can benefit from in further empowering the poor. . Keeping this in mind the Economic Opportunities Commission has organized four panel discussions that will explore the potential of Wikinomics, BPO, Open Source technologies and Telecenteres in extending the frontiers of empowerment and prosperity. Session I – Wealth by Collaboration: Among the collaborative tools that have marked a paradigm shift in aggregation of knowledge and its dissemination Wiki has few parallels. This session looks at the broad area of Wikinomics - or the implications of global collaborative tools for new business. The session will have Dr Atanu Dey, Michel Bauwens, George Sadowsky and Satish Jha among the panelists and will be moderated by Satish Jha Session II: BPO : Late starters and the BPO market: Emerging Models When it comes to BPO, in the world market India has come to seen as a synonym of prosperity through outsourcng business processes. It put India on a new growth curve. Can other developing and emerging economies learn from its experience and take the next steps towards the promise land? Karen Lojewski, Newraj Burton, Chris Uwaje, Ganesh Natarajan and African entrepreneurs will explore the opportunities that the BPO market offers. Session III: Open Source models for creating value in emerging markets: Open Source has long been viewed as a way out for the resource poor to embrace the path of digital opportunities. There has been remarkable progress, corporations have begun embracing open source technologies, the success of Ubuntu has offered a new hope and yet a whole range of questions need to be addressed before the barriers to prosperity by means of open source get further lowered. What’s on the horizon? Jon Hall (better known as Maddog), Shahid Akhtar, Simon Phipps, Dorcas Muthoni et al will explore various issues moderated by Dorothy Gordon. Session IV: Telecentres and the new opportunities frontier Of all the models of ICT for Development Telecentre has been the most talked about. What is its current status, how is it faring, what are the new opportunities and what models may work? Will be discussed by John Hawker, Lee Thorn, Anita Gurumurthy and the leadership of Telecenter.org