Tokyo Declaration and Plan: A Review by: Mr. R. B. KUMARAPATHIRANA Director, Project Development Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) e-mail: kuma@aptsec.org
Plan 1 Plan 2 A. Forming a Shared Vision 1. To form a shared vision to give high priority to using ICT as a national agenda. 2.To share this common understanding with leaders of every sector in their countries, as well as with citizens and communities APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status The following APT Members have come out with their National ICT Policy agenda at different stage of development: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, P.R. of China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, DPR Korea, Rep. of Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, FS Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Palau, PNG, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Vietnam, Cook Islands, Hong Kong and Macau. The above follow-up actions have been implemented to support these activities.
Plans 3 A. Forming a Shared Vision 3. APT to promote international cooperation on ICT policy issues, and to strengthen its function as a regional forum in this regard. APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing various meetings related ICT matters such as AIIS Meeting and Interagency Coordination Meeting, Regional Regulatory and Policy Forum and implementing AIIS projects. Subregional meetings on ICT policy
Plans 4 Plan 5 B. Bridging the Digital Divide 4. To promote the establishment of ICT access points in each community at public facilities such as post offices or schools, following the model of the Multipurpose Community Telecenters (MCTs) 5. To promote pilot projects that enhance ICT literacy and to diffuse electronic commerce in rural areas and to develop and make available a database of experiences in this field in the Asia-Pacific regions APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status AIIS Projects promote and support the establishment of "Community Tele-service Center" CTC in Mongolia, "Multi-purpose Community Tele Centers (MCTC)" (Ongoing) by Thailand, Community Tele-Centre Pilot Project (On-going) by Maldives and Vrtual Post by Republic of Korea. AIIS Project support the requirements. APT Publication of ICT Compendium.
Plans 6 Plan 7 B. Bridging the Digital Divide 6. To promote the development of ICT equipment designed for elderly or disabled people or the socially under-privileged such as mobile terminals. 7. APT to consider measures to overcome the problems of the digital divide and to promote digital opportunities for achieving economic and social development by using ICT by launching regional, sub regional and country projects on a priority basis APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status APT is exploring the possibility of having initiatives of actions by requesting support from private sectors and with the other UN and other Internationa and Regional bodies. Organizing Meeting on Digital Divide. Organizing Seminar on Digital opportunity for All. Implementing AIIS projects and APT HRD Programme for Exchange of ICT Researchers and Engineers.
Plans 8 B. Bridging the Digital Divide 8. APT to make efforts to share information and acknowledge on the digital divide with other international organisations APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with ITU, UN-ESCAP, other related organizations. Organizing co-sponsored seminars with other international organizations
Plans 9 Plan 10 C. Developing Information and Communication Infrastructure 9. To encourage the introduction of mobile and satellite systems, the adoption of new technologies into access networks such as FTTH, xdsl as well as FWA, and the development of broadband backbone networks. 10. To promote standardization of ICT both to enable the interconnection and interoperability of infrastructure and to minimize the cost of its development and promote it to its borders and as well as participating to ASTAP and APG APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status HRD Training courses and Study Visits support this requirement, AIIS Projects support this requirements such as APII Networks of Japan, ATM Project of the Philippines and TEMAN by Celcom Malaysia, etc. ASTAP activities and Workshop on Standardization support the requirement. Some AIIS Project also enable the interoperability of infrastructure e.g. Internet Test-bed and APII Project.
C. Developing Information and Communication Infrastructure Plan11 Plan12 11. To participate in international joint research and experiment in the Next Generation Internet (NGI) and promote the smooth implementation 12. To transfer technology between developed and developing countries in the region APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status HRD Programme for Exchange of ICT Researchers and Engineers can support this requirement as well as Training and Study Visit programmes. HRD Training Programme and Study Visit support this requirement. HRD Programme for Exchange of ICT Researchers and Engineers support this requirement..
Plan13 D. Essential Applications for the Information Society Plan 14 13. To promote e- government, so as to improve public services and to enhance peoples participation in the community 14.To promote the development of relevant applications in the field of telemedicine and distance-learning APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with ITU, UN-ESCAP, other related organizations. Organizing co-sponsored seminars with other international organizations AII Pilot Projects on Interactive Medical Curriculum by Australia, Tele-medicine Project in Bhutan by APT and ITU, Geneva Expert Mission to identify telemedicine projects in Mongolia, which might be based on the use of actual telecommunications networks. Pilot Project on Distance Learning and Remote Library Access by India, Tele-Vocational Education by Korea, Distance Training via Internet by Japan, Broadband Interactive Distance Learning by Hong Kong, China and Teleeducation by Iran
D. Essential Applications for the Information Society Plan15 Plan 16 1 5. To promote the development of content that reflects the various languages and the diversity of cultures of the Asia-Pacific region 1 6. To promote the development of applications useful for various languages in the Asia-Pacific region, such as translation applications APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with ITU, UN-ESCAP, other related organizations. Organizing co-sponsored seminars with other international organizations AIIS Project support the requirements. Supported the Survey on Research and Development of Machine Translation in Asian countries and research project on Thai Speech Recognition within the SPREC frameworks APT Publication of ICT Compendium.
D. Essential Applications for the Information Society Plan17 1 7. To improve the environment for online economic activities, through such measures as establishing laws on electronic signatures and authentication of network user s identities To promote their mutual recognition of electronic signatures and authentication procedures, as well as the exchange of information on security technologies, and consider introducing an APT initiative to help countries spread electronic commerce APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with ITU, UN-ESCAP, other related organizations. Organizing co-sponsored seminars with other international organizations on e-commerce and ICT Tools for Business Initiatives Request has been made urging the administration to promote e-commerce policy and regulation by publishing the e-commerce Compendium and ICT Compendium Regional Seminar on e-commerce and Study Groups address the issues.
D. Essential Applications for the Information Society Plan 18 Plan 19 18.To promote international cooperation on security in cyberspace, including the prevention of cyber Crime 19. To aim to take measures to protect users privacy on information networks, and prevent circulation of indecent or illegal information APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with ITU, UN-ESCAP, other related organizations. Organizing a co-sponsored seminars with other international organizations dealing with Security and Cyber Crime AIIS Project support the requirements. APT Publication of ICT Compendium.
E. Human Resource Development and Enhancement of ICT Literacy Plan20 20. To consider ways to nurture the development of researchers and engineers in the field of new ICT, by sharing knowledge of advanced ICT and exchange staff among institutions of higher education and research 20.1 APT should facilitate the implementation of such project APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with private companies and participating organization including Academia to promote this plan Implementation of HRD Programme for Exchange of ICT Researchers and Engineers.
Plan21 E. Human Resource Development and Enhancement of ICT Literacy 21. To encourage to establish centers of excellence which are adequately equipped in their respective countries and to promote advanced training and research on ICT 21.1 APT to actively assist in facilitating such arrangement as well as in networking the said centers of excellence APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with ITU, UN-ESCAP, other related organizations. Organizing co-sponsored seminars with other international organizations APT is a member of the Steering Group Member of the ITU Center of Excellence in providing support the development and implementation of the projects among APT members
Plan22 Plan 22 E. Human Resource Development and Enhancement of ICT Literacy 22. APT to improve its current training programs and develop a database of the training it provides APT to consider how to implement effective new training programs in the areas of policy making, regulatory issues and applications, including E- Commerce in addition to the training it already offers in ICT technologies and infrastructure 22.1.To formulate and implement programs to enhance ICT literacy among the general population, making use of ICT access facilities established in each community in such public facilities as schools or post offices APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status AIIS projects support the requirement, such as Community Tele-service Center (CTC) (Completed) by Mongolia, Multipurpose Community Tele Centers (MCTC) (On-going) by Thailand and Community Tele-Centre Pilot Project (On-going) by Maldives. AIIS projects support the requirement, such as Pilot Project on Virtual Post offices, Electronic Culture Center of Rep. Of Korea and Tele-Education of Iran.
Plan23 E. Human Resource Development and Enhancement of ICT Literacy Plan 24 23.To expand opportunities for training or education for people living in remote locations using distance learning 24. APT to strengthen co-operation between the public and private sectors in developing human resources and improving ICT literacy, as well as international co-operation APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status AIIS projects support this requirement for distance-learning, such as Pilot Project on Distance Learning and Remote Library Access (On-going) by Japan, Distance Training via Internet (DTvI) (Completed) by Japan, The Vocational Education (On-going) by Rep. Korea and Tele-education (On-going) by Iran. HRD Programme for Exchange of ICT Researchers and Engineers can support this requirement Organizing AIIS Meeting. Organizing Training Courses, Study Visits and Expert Mission jointly with private sector.
Plan25 Plan 25 F. Regional and Global Cooperation 25. APT to pursue activities to promote the regional development of information and communication infrastructure APT to reconsider the role of AII meeting in order to review the Implementations of the Tokyo Declaration and Plan 25.1. Executive Director of APT to keep the Ministers informed about progress in the implementation APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Implementation of AIIS Programme. Convert the AII Meeting to AIIS Meeting as a follow-up the Tokyo Declaration and Plan and promote regional development of information infrastructure. Ministers have been informed accordingly
Plan26 Plan 27 F. Regional and Global Cooperation 26. APT to expand its activities on emerging ICT-related issues, such as bridging the digital divide, development of applications, electronic commerce and prevention of cyber crime APT to plan and implement regional, sub-regional and country projects for this purpose on a priority basis 27.To promote standardization in the field of Telecommunication as well as coordinate policy on the management of frequencies and request member administration for a stronger support to the activities of ASTAP and APG APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status HRD Programme for Exchange of ICT Researchers and Engineers support this requirement.. Organizing co-sponsored seminars with other international organizations the emerging ICT related issues Following-up the situation on the preparation of WSIS. APT preparations for WSIS
Plan30 Plan 31 F. Regional and Global Cooperation 30. APT to strongly support appropriate reform of the ITU, particularly those that will impact on the development of the Information Society in the Asia Pacific region 31.APT to strengthen its relationship with the ESCAP APT to organize annual international conferences for the member administrations to facilitate regular and timely exchange of information and knowledge APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status APT preparatory meetings for PP02 and submission of APT common proposals to ITU Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with UN-ESCAP, other related organizations. Organizing AIIS Meeting.
Plan32 Plan 29 F. Regional and Global Cooperation 32. APT to promote cooperation and share experience with other organizations to take effective and well coordinated action aimed at bridging the digital divide APT to promote cooperation with the Digital Opportunity Taskforce (dot force) 33. APT to promote co-operation with private sector, through appropriate international forums, as well as co-operation with relevant activities of NGO s APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan Follow-up s and Status Organizing Interagency Coordination Meeting with UN-ESCAP, ITU and other related organizations. Participated in the 1st DOT Force Meeting in Tokyo in 2000. APT is actively collaborating and close cooperation to private sector in International forums like GIIC and, WEF
Forward Looking Steps: APT invites partners to join its programmes for Bridging the Digital Divide to all Sectors. Together we can build bridges for sustainable development of ICT APT-AIIS Programme/ Plan
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