Clinton Global Initiative -- 2008 Annual Meeting

The 63rd session of the UN General Assembly opened earlier today, and that means another annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has rolled into town. (Actually, with two hundred heads of state and their security details packed into twenty square blocks of midtown, nothing much is moving, let alone rolling.)

I'll be live-blogging the event over the next couple of days. For those interested in checking out the sessions, kaisernetwork.org will provide live webcasts of most of them, along with archived video, transcripts, and podcasts.

The following sessions will be webcast LIVE (all times Eastern):

Wednesday, September 24

10:00 a.m.: Opening Plenary: A Call to Action

12:00 p.m.: Press Conference with Lance Armstrong

12:00 p.m.: Four Concurrent Working Group Commitment Lunches

• Global Health
• Energy & Climate Change
• Poverty Alleviation
• Education

2:00 p.m.: Four Concurrent Working Group Sessions

• Global Health: Healthy Transitions for Adolescent Girls
• Energy & Climate Change: Ending Energy Waste
• Poverty Alleviation: Strengthening Livelihoods Through Financial Services for the Poor
• Education: Global Expansion of Programs That Increase Quality Education

4:00 p.m.: Plenary Session: Generating Profits, Jobs and Equitable Growth

5:00 p.m.: Giving: A Conversation Between President Clinton and Bill Gates

For up-to-date information about Thursday and Friday webcasts, visit kaisernet's coverage guide at: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/cgi2008#guide.

-- Mitch Nauffts