IT Revolution and Digital Economy

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The ICT Policy in Asian countries,Japans
strategy to bridge the Digital Divide Case
study Indonesia Palau
Ayako Teshima Researcher Fujita Institute For
Future Management Research, Japan 14 January,
2004 PTC 2004
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NII Projects in Asia Pacific Region in 1990s
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National IT Strategies in Asia Pacific Region
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Comparison of each National IT Strategy
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• July 2000 Okinawa Charter on Global Information
  
• IT is one of the most potent forces in shaping
  the twenty-first century.
• IT is fast becoming a vital engine of growth for
  the world economy.
• Seizing Digital Opportunities
• Bridging the Digital Divide
• Promoting Global Participation
• Fostering policy, regulatory and network
  readiness
• Improving connectivity, increasing access and
  lowering cost
• Building human capacity
• Encouraging participation in global e-commerce
  networks

• establish a Digital Opportunity
• Taskforce (dot force)

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Japan's Comprehensive Co-operation Package to
Address the International Digital Divide, July
2000
Japan has been seeking the solution to the global
digital divide focusing on 4 fields
-the formulation of ICT policy and institution
building, -the human resources development,
-the ICT infrastructure building, and -the
promotion of ICT utilization in implementing
development assistance
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1st Action by Japanese Government to implement
the comprehensive policy package was to assist
the government of Indonesia in formulating the
national IT strategy during the year 2001. JICA
nominated professor Saga as the senior adviser to
undertake this work.
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Case1Indonesia

• Facts
• Indonesia has 86,000 villages, but some 43,000
  villages (50) have no telephones (ICT).
  (population 220 million)
• PSTN 7 M lines, Cell phone 7 M, and Internet user
  4 M.
• 1996 plans or Electronic Super Highway, but not
  materialized.
• 90 household have no fixed line (also PC).
• More than 60 Internet Café(Warnet) are in small
  islands of Java and Bali. 40 are at 17,406
  islands.
• 300,000 Wartel(Telephone Café).
• 2,000 Warnet(Internet Café).
• 
  (Source APEC TEL Dr. Naswil
  Idris)

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Case Study National ICT Strategy in Indonesia
A p p l i c a t i o n s
International and Regional ICT Agreements
E-Government
ICT Industry Promotion
E-Commerce
Human Capacity Building
Infrastructure
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2.Palau

• Facts
• PNCC has 6,700lines, 1,137ISP access account,
  2,407mobile,
• 3,031CATV users(2002). (population 20,000)
• All international telecom traffic via Intelsat
  satellite, (total bandwidth for international
  Internet access about 1Mbps).
• PNCC (monopoly telecom carrier) delivers ISP
  (internet access, local-net access) via dial-up
  and ADSL.
• Major industriestourisum,craft
  items,comstruction ,garment malking, no IT
  industry (manufacturing, service industry)
• CITAG(Communication Information Technical
  Advisory Group) was charged with responsibilities
  of ICT related issue.
• A three year plan ICT-2003(short long term
  action plan) was announced.
• TAMC(Triper Army Medical Center)services the
  telemedicine at free.
  (Source PIDO mission report, 2003)

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Case Study National ICT Strategy in Palau
Human Resource
Infrastruture Dev.
Policy and Regulation
Universal Accessibility
Quality of Life
Universal Accessibility
Cooperation between stakeholders
Unified ICT vision
Policy and Regulation
Security, privacy
Increased capability efficiency
Cooperation between Stakeholders
Human resource development
Public Awareness
To improve economy
Balance
Common Ground
Policy Statement
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Japans IT Strategy
January 2001 E-Japan Strategy ? Always-On
Internet access at the worlds lowest price level
realized. Number of broadband subscriber DSL
9,230thousands
CATV 2,340thousands (Sept
ember 2003) FTTH
690thousands July 2003 E-Japan Strategy ? 2 new
directions 1. to shift the policy focus from IT
infrastructure to IT use 2.to build a new
Japan-origin IT society capitalizing on the
strengths Mobile Communications, Digital TV,
information electronic applications, Internet
Protocol version 6(IPv6), ubiquitous networks
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Outline of e-Japan Strategy ?
7 leading fields where IT to be applied
SME finance
Food
Medicine
Lifestyle
Knowledge
Government services
Laying foundations for a new IT society
1.Establish next generation telecom
infrastructure 2.Establish a secure and stable
usage environment 3.Promote research and
development to give birth to the next
generation 4.Nurture IT human resources and
educational activities 5.Develop new
international relationships Asia Broadband
Program
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Asia Broadband ProgramNew Initiative by
Government of Japan

• Promotion of broadband Infrastructure in Asia
• Facilitation of joint RD for the introduction of
  new technology (IPv6 and Internet Satellite)
• Promotion of use of broadband
• E-Government
• E-Learning
• E-Health and other tele-applications
• Development of local language contents
• Promotion of human capacity building

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New Challenge Closing the Digital
Divide as a common objective based on Equal
partnership,Shared ownership, andMutual
respect. Benefits of ICT for all!

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