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.
10th GBDe Summit
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 This event is INVITATION ONLY. The deadline for registration is on Tuesday, September 30. |
Past Major Events & Activities:
APEC ECSG Lima, Peru August, 12-16 2008 |
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APEC ECSG was held in Lima, Peru from August 12-16th. Mr. Chihara of NEC Corporation made a presentation during the technical seminar about ICA-Net Initiative (International Consumer Complaint Handling Network for B2C e-commerce) representing Consumer Confidence Issue Group of GBDe. As a result, the ICA-Net Initiative has been approved as one of the Data Privacy Sub-Group's pilot programs. During the ECSG Plenary Meeting on 16th, Mr. Nagata of NTT-Data reported about GBDe's current activities and the forthcoming GBDe Summit meeting in October. GBDe has one of the four special guest seats at APEC ECSG since 2003 and continues participating in the meetings as a representative from private sector organizations. | |
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Digital Opportunity Workshop Taipei, Taiwan June, 27 2008 |
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Digital Opportunity issue group, GBDe's new issue group organized by Institute of Information Industry(III) based in Taipei, held their 1st workshop on June 27th. The workshop focused on the current status of digital divide and digital opportunities in Asia Pacific region. Approximately 170 people from Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and United States, participated in the event. | |
2nd BSC Meeting Taipei, Taiwan June, 26 2008 |
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The 2nd BSC meeting was held in Taipei, Taiwan on June 26th. Our 6 issue groups, Digital Home, International NFC Payment, Cyber Security, Consumer Confidence, Eco Ubiquitous Network Society, and Digital Opportunity presented a progress report on its on-going activity. The meeting also focused on the following agendas: 1) new funding guideline 2) 2008 summit plan 3) on-going recruiting activities. |
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Consumer Confidence Issue Group Meeting Taipei, Taiwan June, 25 2008 |
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Consumer Confidence Issue Group, GBDe's oldest issue group led by NEC Corporation, held a group meeting on June 25th. They discussed about the current activities on how to build trust between consumers and merchants in the cross-border on-line B2C transactions, especially in the areas of TrustMark, ADR(Alternative Dispute Resolutions), and Privacy Data Protection. Special guests in each area were invited to the meeting and made the meeting informative and constructive: | |
| Head of Consumers International(ADR), Director of McCann Ericson Taiwan(Privacy Data Protection), and Executive Director of SOSA Taiwan(TrustMark). | ||
Digital Home Workshop Taipei, Taiwan June, 25 2008 |
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Digital Home Issue Group held a workshop on June 25th. We invited 11 distinguished speakers and 117 participants working in digital home related fields, such as government agencies, service providers, CPE manufacturers, and home builders. In the morning section, the speakers shared their valuable ideas and experiences with the participants on feasible business models, as well as to discuss opportunities and challenges in the digital home industry. In the afternoon sections, we had a comprehensive discussion about public policy in the aspect of protecting personal privacy and enhancing security in digital home services. | |
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International NFC Payment Workshop Taipei, Taiwan June, 24 2008 |
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One of our issue groups, International NFC Payment, held a workshop on June 24th. 14 distinguished speakers and 128 people working in the NFC related fields, such as domestic mobile network operators, StarHub, financial organizations, NFC chip solution providers and service providers, participated in this workshop. Issues of international NFC application, particularly issues of Trusted-Service-Management, were discussed. We also had a comprehensive discussion about user requirements, ways to get NFC services, | |
| certification and interoperability problems of NFC payment applications, and sought for an "all-win" business model for further growth of NFC services. | ||
Speech by GBDe Overall Chair at the OECD ICCP Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Korea, on June, 16 2008. |
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GBDe Overall Chair Takashi Enomoto's speech at the ICCP Ministerial Meeting highlighted GBDe's new initiatives and gave a preview of the 2008 Summit. Read More>>> |
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ATA Meeting Hanoi, Vietnam June,12-13 2008 |
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ATA's Chair handover ceremony and interim meeting and workshop were held in Hanoi, Vietnam. GBDe's corporate member Chunghwa Telecom's Chairman, Mr.Ho-Chen, officially became the chairperson of ATA 2008/9. GBDe's Co-Chair, Mr. Kawamura made a keynote speech at the ceremony, showing our strong commitment and support to ATA. Mr. Misaki from Nomura Research Institute (NRI) participated in the 2nd session of the meeting, and Mr, Takeo Koyama from NEC served as a moderator in the 1st session of the meeting. | |
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APEC TELMIN 7 Bangkok, Thailand April, 20-25 2008 |
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The 7th APEC Ministerial Meeting on Telecommunications and Information Industry was held in Bangkok on April 20-25. Mr. Tomoo (Tom) Misaki from NRI attended this meeting on behalf of GBDe, and gave a presentation on Smart Phones at the "Three Party Dialogue" session. Some attendees asked Mr. Misaki about joining similar workshops and seminars, and this could be the first of many dialogues we hold on this subject. We also announced that our annual summit will be held in San Francisco on October 31, 2008. | |
| P.S. Also, the former Overall Chair of GBDe, Mr. Ho-Chen Tan, Chairman and CEO of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), delivered an impressive speech. | ||
APEC TEL 37 Tokyo, Japan March, 23-28 2008 |
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APEC TEL 37 was held in Tokyo from March 23-28th. On behalf of "Cyber Security issue group" in GBDe, Mr. Yamada from IPA provided a report of “Security on Software-embedded Systems Including Cell Phones and Handheld Devices” at "Workshop on Handheld Mobile Device Security". In the WG Plenary, we reported GBDe’s activity last year, and introduced current 6 issue groups that were approved in our 1st BSC meeting. We also encouraged all the participants of the meeting to participate in the coming Summit 2008. We will participate in TELMIN 7 in April, TEL 38 in October, and continue making contribution to APEC TEL on various issues. ( Cyber Security, Digital Opportunity, Digital Home, etc. ) |
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17th APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group Meeting Lima, Peru February, 19-24 2008 |
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| 17th APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group Meeting was held in Lima from February 19-24th. 2 representatives from GBDe participated in this meeting, and gathered information regarding the current status of data privacy in each economies. We also submitted a voluntary report explaining GBDe activities to its Plenary. We reported on-going activities of one of our issue group,"Consumer Confidence”, which is strongly associated with ECSG and its activities. As GBDe, we will continue participating in APEC ECSG’s “Path Finder Project". |
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1st BSC Meeting Sheraton Towers, Singapore February, 26 2008 |
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The meeting focused on the following agendas: 1) The organization's overall goal of the year, 2) Each issue group's objectives and schedule, 3) Review of the current governance rules, 4) Approval of new members, 5) Review of the previous year's annual financial report and this year's budget. | |
