Promoting a Public / Private Dialogue
The Global Business Dialogue on electronic commerce (GBDe) is a worldwide, CEO-led, business initiative, established in January 1999 to assist the development of a global policy framework for the emerging online economy. GBDe has been actively promoting a private sector/Government dialogue on convergence-related issues since 2001. Today, there is an urgent need to build a global policy framework incorporating the new paradigm. We now have total 19 organizations from Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, Hong Kong, China and USA.
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Past Major Events & Activities:
Overall Chair Visited Executive Director of APEC June 8, 2009 |
GBDe Overall Chair, Mr. Enomoto and Secretariat, Mr. Nagata paid a courtesy visit to Ambassador Michael Tay, Executive Director of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) at the Headquarters.Also attending this meeting were Ms. Irene Susan B. Natividad, Director of APEC TEL and Ms. Zaireen Omar, Director of ECSG. The discussion included collaborations between APEC and GBDe in the past and issues under current economic circumstances. This meeting was consequential in that APEC and GBDe discusses further how to create an environment where ICT can contribute to founding and establishing the better future. |
2009 International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution Israel June 3-4, 2009 |
Mr. Mandai of ODR Room (Tokyo, Japan) participated in the "2009 International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution" which was held June 3-4 at University of Haifa, Israel on behalf of Consumer Confidence Issue Group (CCIG). Mr. Mandai made a presentation on ICA-Net, which GBDe's Consumer Confidence Issue Group has been promoting, in one of the session titled "Addressing e-commerce disputes". His presentation attracted much attention and interest and raised the recognition of ICA-Net among the participants of the forum. CCIG will continue supporting ICA-Net in its further global expansion with contacts which were obtained through Mr. Mandai's presentation in the forum. |
APEC TEL 39 Singapore April 13-18, 2009 |
   Mr. Yamada from IPA, who is also a GBDe Sherpa, attended APEC TEL 39 as a Japanese delegate. He discussed IPA’s commitment to protecting children from harmful content on the Internet. APEC economies and OECD have acknowledged the importance of protecting children and agreed to continue to work on this issue. GBDe has demonstrated its proactive collaboration with APEC TEL with regards to various ICT issues. |
ATA Meeting Singapore February 27, 2009 |
 The meeting of ATA (Asia-Pacific Trustmark Association) was held in Singapore on February 27, 2009. Member organizations of ATA (Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, USA), observers from China and Thailand, and government officials of Japan and Singapore assembled and discussed the issues of trustmark activities. Mr. Chihara of NEC Corporation attended the meeting on behalf of GBDe's Consumer Confidence Issue Group (CCIG). ATA has joined GBDe this year, and CCIG and ATA will jointly cooperate for the further growth of cross-border trustmark program. |
ERIA Meeting Singapore February 26-27, 2009 |
The meeting of the working group for "Establishiment of a secure and safe e-commerce marketplace" of ERIA(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia) was held in Singapore (Feb. 26-27, 2009). Representatives of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, China(observer) and Taiwan(observer) discussed the issues for building safe and secure infrastructure for cross-border e-commerce in the region. Mr. Chihara of NEC Corporation attended the meeting on behalf of GBDe's Consumer Confidence Issue Group. The ICA-Net(an international network for handling consumers complaints of cross-border e-taransaction) , which GBDe has been promoting, has been incorporated in the discussion. |
APEC ECSG Meeting Singapore February 22-26, 2009 |
 APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group (APEC ECSG 19) seminar and meeting was held in Singapore from February 22-26. Mr. Chihara of NEC Corporation and Mr. Nagata of NTT-Data attended this meeting as representatives of GBDe.At the plenary meeting on 26th, Mr. Nagata provided about GBDe's latest activities and the GBDe Summit in Munich, Germany on November 5. All ECSG participants of APEC economies were invited for GBDe 2009 Summit which overall theme is "A better future, safe and worry free!,  " Also, Mr. Nagata expressed the interest for the proposal from CANADA about “Global value chain project”. GBDe will try to collaborate with this project from traceability point of view.Mr. Chihara exchanged opinions with representatives of the participating economies from the viewpoint of private sector in regard to the cross-border privacy rules system. |
BSC Meeting Taipei, Taiwan February 13, 2009 |
 "Participants agreed Issue Groups will experiment by holding cross-border trials and take action through discussions with stakeholders. Actual projects and experiences will be reinforced this year in order to bear fruit as GBDe activities in the future. The Annual Summit will be held on November 5th, in Munich, Germany. |
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