Net Conference| Session 1 - "New Businesses Emerging with Mobile Networks and Digital Home Appliances " | |
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 Start-Up 1 | |
| From: Takashi Tanemura
(1) We would like to start the GIS online conference | |
| This is Takashi Tanemura from the Nikkei Electronic Media Bureau. I have been appointed to be an assistant to the English side of the Global Information Summit (GIS) Online Conference. This e-mail based online conference is aimed at promoting the global information infrastructure formation, particularly Japan's infrastructure. Nikkei thought that we would be able to set up an forum to debate this issue as the largest economic daily in Asia. The online conference will be continued until early March so that we will be able to give suggestions to the face-to-face conference. The conference coordinator is Mr. Jim Johnson, vise president of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) in Washington. In the meantime, we will hold separate discussions in Japanese. The coordinators are Mr. Toru Maekawa, Visiting Professor, Global Information and Telecommunication Institute, Waseda Univ. and Mr. Waichi Sekiguchi, senior staff writer for Nikkei. Starting the discussion, we would like you to post your self introduction and give us your some idea on what we will have to discuss here. Since the number of participants on the English side is quite limited, I would also appreciate if you can introduce anyone who would be interested participating in this online conference.
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| From: Wolfgang Hennes
(2) Self-Introduction | |
| ly name is Wolfgang Hennes, I am the Key Account Manager for the Bertelsmann company QuBiz (part of Bertelsmann media convergence). Before that I was owner of the business research service Hennes & Partner, Bonn. After I studied business administration at the Freie Universitat Berlin I was technological counsellor at the Hans-Bockler-Stiftung, counsellor for organization at Siemens-Nixdorf-Informationssysteme AG and scientific assistant at the study commission "Future of the media - Germanys road to the information society" from the German Bundestag. Since 1996 I am lecturer for media management in firms and media companies at the@Bauhaus University Weimar and project manager of the initiative "West African Internet". | |
| From: Dr. Marja Erola
(3) Self-Introduction | |
| I work at National Technology Agency Tekes which is the main public organization for financing and coordinating technological research and development in Finland http://www.finland.fi, with the budget of appr. 400 MEURO this year. My own responsibilities are related to e-business, digital economy, information society and international co-operation, including the IST programme of the European Union http://www.cordis.lu/ist.
Last year during the Finnish presidency of the EU my organization was responsible of organizing the Information Society conference of the European Union, IST99 http://www.ist99.fi in cooperation with the Directorate General for Information Society (DG INFSO) of the European Commission. This conference was especially important for us Finns as the new Commissioner responsible of Information Society and Enterprises since last autumn is a Finn, Mr Erkki Liikanen http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/liikanen/index_en.htm To help you non-Europeans better understand this issue, Mr Liikanen is the successor of Mr Bangemann in the European Commission, he got the old DG III, XIII plus also XXIII.
As an example of Europe and e-business I would like to refer to a recent study, E-Business in a Connected World by the Bathwick Group. http://www.bathwick.com/index.html?pr/280999.html&1 In the picture of this press release link - which i especially like, I even asked the permission to use it in my slides - Finland is shown to be nro one "Doing well, forging ahead" among ten European countries. The research surveyed senior business executives in over 2,000 companies and 500 local government organizations. According to the survey, within Europe, Finland and Sweden are the most Internet advanced and Italy is showing the fastest growth. Europe's e-business laggards are France and Belgium. In terms of industry sectors, those making the greatest strides into e-business were high-tech manufacturing companies, telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISP's). Lagging behind are the banking and broadcast industries.
Another reference I would like to give to catalyze discussion is a recent book "Electronic Commerce, Strategies and Models for Business-to-Business Trading" by Dr Paul Timmers (my good friend from the European Commission). In that book (page 9) he writes:
" CommerceNet performs a yearly survey in the USA and Europe into barriers to electronic commerce. In 1998 it found that the main barriers differed between large and small companies, but also that there are quite significant differences between the USA and Europe. In the USA, the most important barriers for corporations were integration with legacy systems and executive awareness. For large corporations in Europe, the most important barriers were about trust and security, as well as international trade barriers. Small companies in both the USA and Europe did seem to agree about the lack of business models for making money. US SMEs were also concerned about the lack of qualified personnel, while European SMEs were worried about the complexity of electronic commerce. Andersen consulting, in a 1998 European survey, also found that the lack of clear regulation formed a particular barrier to electronic commerce development and that executives believe that governments should do more to develop a global legal framework. The cost of telecommunications and Internet service provider costs and their relative weight vary greatly across countries. | |
| From: Terrie Lloyd
(4) Self-Introduction | |
| ly name is Terrie Lloyd. I run an Internet incubation firm in Tokyo, called LINC Media. As part of our activities, we publish a number of web sites that would be useful background reading to those of you not in Japan. These are: www.cjnn.com, www.cjmag.co.jp, and www.japaninc.net. All three sites are in English and explain many of the questions that are being asked on this forum. | |
| From: William Schrader
(5) Self-Introduction | |
| This is William Schrader, I am chairman, CEO and founder of PSINet Inc. the first commercial Internet Service Provider. | |
| From: Sherwin Faden
(6) Self-Introduction | |
| My name is Sherwin Faden. I am the General Manager of Marketing for VeriSign Japan. We offer trust services on the Internet. We have two focuses in Japan. One has been in supplying certificates to websites so they can enable SSL security (the padlock at the bottom of the browser). The other focus is in supplying outsourcing services to companies so that they can issue certificates to their own subscribers and users. | |
| From: Lee A. Daniels
(7) Self-Introduction | |
| My name is Lee Daniels. I am the CEO of Titus Communications, one of the leading Broadband companies in Japan. As we continue to hype the merits of broadband in facilitating higher speed data applications, I am always interested in the progress of alternative technologies - specifically ADSL and Wireless. I have heard that DSL technology has some unique challenges in Japan relative to the spectrum allocation of NTT for ISDN service and the quality of the physical plant. I do believe that these emerging technologies will play a key role in Japan's ecommerce development and would appreciate any insight on the viability of these type of infrastructures in Japan. | |
| From: Nobuo Ikeda
(8) Self-Introduction | |
| This is Ikeda of GLOCOM. We are promoting "TV over IP" on the broadband Internet, http://www.wwvi.org. | |
| From: Dr. Robert S. Fish
(9) Self-Introduction | |
| This is Rob Fish, I am director of Panasonic's Information Networking and Technologies Laboratory in Princeton, NJ, USA. | |
| From: Bradley L. Bartz
(10) Self-Introduction | |
| I'm Bradley Bartz, President JMAIL.CO.JP KK.
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