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18th PAA Steering Committee Meeting
in Hong Kong
 (Hong
Kong, 2 March 2005) The Pan-Asian E-Commerce Alliance, known as
PAA, held its 18th Steering Committee meeting in Hong Kong from
1st March to 2nd March 2005. Established
in July 2000, the PAA is the first regional e-Commerce alliance
in Asia that provides secure and reliable IT infrastructure to
promote efficient global trade and logistics. Current PAA Members
comprise Tradelink of Hong Kong, Trade-Van of Chinese Taipei,
CrimsonLogic of Singapore, KTNET of Korea, CIECC of China, TEDI
Club of Japan, Dagang Net of Malaysia, TEDMEV of Macau and CAT
Telecom Public Co. Ltd of Thailand.
Mr. Ryu Chang Moo, Chairman of the PAA and CEO of KTNET said,
‘PAA has done a great job in establishing the infrastructure
for paperless trade and in developing innovative electronic services
for the trading and logistics communities. This year will be a
milestone in the history of PAA when it launches new services
to its members including extending such services beyond Asia.“
Ms Sandra Lee, Permanent Secretary, Economic Development and
Labour Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,
was the guest of honour at the PAA Welcome Dinner. She viewed
with great pride the progress that the Alliance had achieved in
facilitating electronic cross border trade. Ms Lee further told
the gathering that the Hong Kong Digital Trade and Transportation
Network (DTTN), Phase 1, would be launched before the end of 2005
to provide the electronic platform to facilitate the exchange
of information and data for the trading and related communities.
She saw DTTN not simply as a Hong Kong project and was pleased
to learn that among the PAA economies, similar projects were also
in the pipeline. She was confident that their success would bring
about closer cooperation of the various economies in the region,
through the inter-connection of such platforms.
The PAA has made significant progress in cross border customs
declaration services and has extended the services to more freight
forwarders in the PAA regions, especially in Korea and Chinese
Taipei. More users will benefit from the closer cooperation among
the various economies in the region.
The meeting noted a number of new projects initiated:
- Bilateral e-Certificate of Origin (e-CO) projects with the
strong support from the Chinese Taipei, Japanese, Korean and
Singapore governments.
- e-Financing service for sellers and buyers in Chinese Taipei
with the support from Taiwan-CA Inc.
- Cross border e-Manifest service among PAA Members
The Steering Committee received a report of its attendance at
the 11th APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group (ECSG)
meeting held in Feb 2005 in Seoul where it presented case studies
to illustrate how PAA’s existing infrastructure could help
accelerate the implementation of secure electronic cross border
transactions. All the ECSG members recognized the achievements
of PAA and expressed their interest to participate in PAA projects.
The e-CO is a path finder project in APEC ECSG and PAA is also
promoting the e-CO project within its members.
In Feb 2005, some of the PAA members attended the Asia Public
Key Infrastructure Forum (APKIF) held in Tokyo. The APKIF and
PAA agreed to explore further cooperation.
The 19th Steering Committee Meeting will be held in
China in the week of 23rd May 2005.
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on 2599 1686.
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