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An Interconnected Future
PTC Members,
It is with great pleasure that I write to you about the networking
future, the world that we see in our minds, the world ahead,
beyond telecom. Just as the Appian Way was paved with stone
to support all commerce to and from the major metropolis of
ancient Rome, the global roads of information and application
commerce are being paved with fiber between major cities around
the world.
With all of our cultural and geographic differences, our
countries and people all share the same common underlying
need for data in increasing amounts and at greater speeds,
and we, as a community within all of them, share a common
responsibility. It is our mission and goal to build and maintain
the best possible fiber roads for the information and applications
to traverse. The application services yet to come, including
international mobile video communication and future video
distribution systems, rely on our ability to construct dependable,
affordable paths to connect those services and their users.
Our goal is an illusive one if we are not focused. To be
successful we are required to have an understanding of our
respective roles within the community and a dedication to
that specific layer. This would be akin to the seven layers
of the OSI model from the physical
layer 1 to the application layer 7. Staying true to your expertise
will raise your probability of success and any deviation,
such as an ISP attempting to limit
customers’ access to certain applications, will most
likely end in failure. It is our duty to be aware of these
perils, share them with others in our community and avoid
them.
In the pursuit of our common goal we are assisted by the
Pacific Telecommunications Council and their efforts to help
us achieve maximum productivity. By participating in not only
the PTC conferences, but also being
an active member of the community, each individual’s
input results in a multiple effect of output as we all connect
on a personal and ultimately, network level with each other.
I look forward to our interconnected future together.
Hunter Newby
PTC Advisory Council
PTC Advisory
Council Elects Appeals Committee: Results and Significance
Aloha PTC Colleagues,
First the news: The PTC Advisory Council (AC)
has just finished electing five of its senior members to the
AC Appeals Committee. The committee’s purpose
and the coming election were announced in the May 2006 PTC
Members Bulletin.
In July 2006, the AC nominated and elected, by electronic
secret balloting, its first members to this essentially “organizational”
structural entity. In the future the members will have staggered,
two-year terms. Future elections will take place as part of
the Advisory Council’s January meetings in Honolulu.
For this first committee, the terms are necessarily shortened.
Elected until January 2007 are Katsuhiro Onoda
and Noboru Ubayama. Elected until January
2008 are Thomas Cooper, Mark Hukill, and Chris Vonwiller.
The members may be nominated again and re-elected when their
terms have ended.
The purpose of the Appeals Committee is to consider and make
recommendations to the Board of Governors (BG) pertaining
to any issues, concerns or complaints regarding the PTC
that are referred to it either by the BG, the Secretariat,
or members and associates to the PTC.
The Appeals Committee’s function is to serve as kind of informal
ombudsman or impartial hearing officer, in the event that
issues and disputes within
PTC have not been reasonably settled by the people
involved.
We anticipate that the committee will rarely have to meet,
yet when they are required, the matter will be important.
That is why I am proud that the AC elected five of its most
senior professionals for this important role, and that all
five readily agreed to serve together as required.
The Appeals Committee document, which will be posted to the
PTC website, contains safeguards for confidentiality
and due process of hearing the issues.
Next, the significance of the action: PTC is
an organization that serves as a council of information and
communication technologies (ICT) professionals, with global
perspectives. We are a community of interest. We come together
as a non-governmental organization (an “NGO”) around our interests
in innovative technologies that can help our companies and
communities succeed and prosper in the information economy.
Our central and most intense community event is our professional
conference held annually in Hawai’i, “the Crossroads of the
Pacific.”
Yet the annual conference is only the most visible sign of
the relationships we build and renew in professional networks
that extend all year long, and over the years.
The PTC web of information and influence extends
across the globe and across this period of history.
We are not a conference with a professional association at
the edges. We are a professional association that gathers
together, and works together, for a great time in outstanding
places, like Honolulu in January, as well as across the Pacific
hemisphere.
Re-energized from our meetings, we return to our work and
interests with more information, better understanding and
more-developed contacts. PTC can make us more
effective together, and together we can make PTC
more effective.
That is what is significant about the PTC Board
of Governors approval of the Advisory Council’s decision for
an Appeals Committee—we are building an organization for the
strategic future, a 21st century “modern” future, where shared
governance is powerful and still transparent.
These actions are essential scaffolding to support the structure
of a professional organization that can act together as a
community of interest.
Now it is time for the organization to renew its influence
through discussion, demonstration and debate of the ICT
issues of today. PTC conferences have improved
in quality in the last few years. The new PTC’07
conference in January is shaping up to be among our best.
Now is the time to register to come to PTC‘07,
and bring your co-workers and colleagues, especially younger
colleagues. They will build their professionalism and their
commitment through the reward of a trip to Hawai’i for PTC,
and so will you.
Mahalo,
Jay Gillette
Chairman, PTC Advisory Council, and for Gregg
Daffner, Vice-Chairman, PTC Advisory Council,
and the PTC Advisory Council members
Executive
Director’s Corner
By: Stephen G. Tom
PURSUING THE POSSIBILITIES BEYOND THE LEGACIES
We live and work in a world of constant change. Facing change
and taking productive steps forward takes innovative thinking
and a willingness to see a world of possibilities. PTC
members and supporters are faced with this challenge every
day. Likewise, we share a world of limitless possibilities
and opportunities.
In order to take advantage of these possibilities and opportunities,
we have to be willing to step outside our comfort zone; we
have to dare to think outside the proverbial “box.” Innovation
is often only one step outside our comfort zone. However,
most of us see this small step as a giant leap because we
live in a world of past lessons and current perceived obstacles.
Innovators live in the present, seeing opportunities as they
present themselves. Innovators live in a world of future possibilities
and an ever-present question of “Why not?”
PTC is made up of members who are innovators
and those who seek to be innovators. Across the Asia-Pacific
and around the world, PTC members recognize the
importance of surrounding themselves with thought leaders
and in constantly pushing aside prejudices and pre-conceived
notions in order to make possibilities realities. Verizon
saw the possibilities in acquiring MCI; VSNL
saw possibilities in acquiring Teleglobe and Tyco; Cantata
Technology came out of Excel Switching and Brooktrout Technology
as they saw the possibilities in joining forces; Intelsat
saw possibilities in acquiring PanAmSat; and SES Global
is mining the possibilities derived from their acquisition
of New Skies Satellites.
PTC and our upcoming annual conference PTC’07:
Beyond Telecom, is about meeting the challenges to our legacy-way
of thinking. We are a vibrant organization of telecom and
ICT professionals who realize that nothing remains
the same and that we must constantly assess and act upon the
threats and opportunities that present themselves each day.
Join PTC and invest in PTC’07 (see
www.ptc07.org).
It may be the best investment you make this year.
PTC’07 Announcements
Many thanks to the PTC’07 Sponsors:
Coming Soon!
PTC is embarking on its first major technology
upgrade since the 90's. Coming this fall, it will be possible
to initiate and manage individual PTC member
and guest accounts via the Web. In addition to enhancing our
database management capabilities, this upgrade will make it
faster and easier to register for PTC’07 and
to sign up as a new member or to renew your membership. Additional
enhancements are in the works, including an electronic meeting
scheduling system for PTC’07 and more ways to
benefit from your PTC membership via Web-based
features and programs.
Members’ Hot
Box: PTC Members in the News
PTC Corporate Partners An Elite Group
We are pleased to announce that SES
Americom
has committed to be our first Corporate Partner Member, continuing
a tradition of industry leadership.
PTC’s new Corporate Partner Membership category
provides industry leading companies with an opportunity to
become a part of an elite group of long-term supporters insuring
that PTC continues to serve as an important business
catalyst throughout the Asia-Pacific and around the world.
This high level support also allows PTC to be
an enabler of programs that bring telecom and ICT
solutions to bear on critical civil society challenges.
For a membership fee of US$25K per year over a 3-year term
for a total commitment of US$75,000, Corporate Partner Members
acknowledge the importance of PTC and its annual
conference as the industry’s premier business exchange and
education resource in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Benefits of Corporate Partner Membership…
PTC Corporate Partners receive:
- A PTC-generated press release announcing
the Corporate Partner Member (CPM) status
- An announcement of CPM-status in PTC’s
electronic newsletter
- Year-round brand exposure on PTC’s main website
Brand exposure on the annual conference website each year
for 3 years
- Logo and write-up in a special CPM section
of PTC’s main website
- 25 Conference Registrations each year for 3 years
- Acknowledgment signage at annual conference for 3 years
- Full page color ad in the conference program on yearly
basis (art supplied by CPM)
- Unlimited membership directory listings for the CPM’s
staff and leadership
For more information about this valuable membership program,
please contact Stephen Tom, Executive Director, by email at
stephen@ptc.org or by
phone at +1-808-428-8454.
IT Parks in the Asia Pacific
Translated Into Chinese
Authors: Dr. Richard Taylor and Dr. Meheroo Jussawalla
Dr. Meheroo Jussawalla, senior fellow emerita at the East-West
Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, recently announced the publishing
of IT Parks in the Asia Pacific in Chinese.
Dr. Jussawalla noted that a grant from the Ford Foundation
to research the impact of Information Technology Parks in
emerging economies in Asia was the initial impetus behind
the original English version of the book. She went on to say,
“We researched the IT Parks and their impact
on the Digital Divide in Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore,
and Taiwan, as well as Hawaii.”
In 1993, the results of the research were published by M.E.
Sharpe, New York in a book entitled IT Parks
in the Asia Pacific. This year Beijing, University’s Dr. Bin
Zhang, translated the book into Chinese for Post and Telecommunications
Press. Drs. Jussawalla and Taylor would like to give special
mention to another PTC conference volunteer,
Dr. Sunyeen Pai, of the University of Hawaii, who significantly
helped with the research.
For information, please contact Dr. Bin Zhang at binzhang@bupt.edu.cn.
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