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PTC Tokyo Bay “New Frontier of 26–28 May 2003
Joint Organizers:
Pacific Telecommunications Council Japan Committee
Strong Supporters:
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Report on PTC Tokyo Bay Mid-Year Meetings
and Seminar 2003 This year's mid-year meeting and seminar featured top-notch senior level speakers and strong support from leading telecommunication companies, including NTT Communications, KDDI CORPORATION, Chunghwa Telecom, Reach, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM Japan, Ltd., Japan Telecom, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, OKI, Panasonic/Matsushita and others. They provided Asian perspectives on the development and future prospects of the ICT industry. Special feature: Development Workshop organized by the PTC Special Interest Group on Developing Nations. See final program details and speaker information at www.my2003.org/program. The two-day seminar was preceded by a day of meetings of the PTC Board of Governors and Advisory Council. The seminar concluded successfully with an attendance of some 200, including 18 overseas participants from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong (China), New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and the United States. PTC and the PTC Japan Committee, the joint organizers of the event, expressed satisfaction with the turnout, especially in view of the current downturn in the global telecommunications industry and the SARs outbreak, which resulted in the cancellation of several events in Japan and elsewhere in Asia. The program was power-packed in every sense of the word. In addition to two keynote addresses from NORIFUMI KATO, Senior Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) and Member of the Councilors, Japan and TADAO SAITO, Professor at the Chuo University and Honorary Professor of the Tokyo University, Japan, the program also reflected an impressive list of speakers, including some of the "who's who" of the telecommunication industry. The speakers spoke on a variety of topics, including The Future of Info-Communications in Asia-Pacific, New Platform Business, Creation of New Lifestyles and Entertainment Revolution. PTC would like to thank the host of this seminar, the PTC Japan Committee, for their gracious hospitality and expert planning and execution of this event. This was PTC's fourth successful seminar held in Japan, following earlier seminars in Gifu, Sendai and Yokohama. SIG on Development The newly formed SIG on Developing Nations successfully held its first workshop on 28 May 2003 in conjunction with PTC's 2003 Tokyo Bay Midyear Seminar. It was attended by 25+ on-site attendees and about 10 remote attendees via teleconference. Eiji Hayashi (Chairman of PTC's Special Interest Group on Development and Chairman Emeritus of PTC) contributed the following: "I would like to express my sincerest thanks to those who contributed to the success of the workshop, including the presenters, the participating audience (on-site and remote), members who contributed to the pre-workshop discussion on the Internet, and particularly the two reporters, Mr. David Wortley and Dr. Kenji Saga, who superbly managed the session and made excellent summing-up of the discussion. The use of teleconference combined with virtual classroom proved to be most effective for this kind of meeting. Despite some technical difficulties encountered at the beginning, the workshop proceeded quite smoothly and effectively thanks to the various features of the virtual classroom, which enabled simultaneous viewing of the presentation screen for the classroom participants as well as off-screen chat among the participants. My special thanks goes to David Wortley, who offered the free use of the system and operational support before and during the workshop. This workshop is only the beginning of the SIG activity. We will continue our efforts to make our activity useful and meaningful for the ICT development of developing regions, and our next event will be associated with PTC'04 next January."
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