ESCM Developments in Hong Kong

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E-SCM Developments in Hong Kong
Opening address by Mrs. Carrie Yau Secretary for
Information Technology and Broadcasting
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E-Supply Chain Management (e-SCM)

• E-SCM means
• the use of IT to conduct business with partners
  and customers along supply chains
• concrete benefits
• - Exposure
• - Efficiency
• - Enhancement
• - Ensuring
• - Expansion

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E-Supply Chain Management (e-SCM)

• Hong Kong has
• - strong service culture
• - world-class business environment
• - great potential to be a key enabler in the
  global e-supply chain
• We need
• - advanced infrastructure
• - clear strategy
• - dynamic business sector

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Where Hong Kong stands -

• 60 PC penetration rate
• 50 Internet penetration rate
• Broadband network reaches all commercial
  buildings and over 95 of households
• One third of our households use broadband service
• Nearly 40 of our businesses use Internet in
  their operation

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Where Hong Kong stands -

• Over 2.6 million Internet accounts
• Internet services among cheapest in the world at
  less than
• 1.6 per hour for dial-up
• 200 per month for unlimited broadband usage
• External connectivity 900 Gbps

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Where Hong Kong stands -

• 86 of people aged 15 or above use e-business
  services
• 85 of our population have mobile phones
• One of the first in Asia to introduce GPRS
• Over 8.5 million e-payment smart cards in
  circulation.
• Over 600, 000 citizens are online banking service
  users

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Clear Government strategy

• Digital21 IT Strategy positioning HK as a leading
  digital city
• - Enhancing our e-business environment
• - Building E-government
• - Developing our IT workforce
• - Building a digitally inclusive society
• - Exploiting enabling technologies

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Legal infrastructure

• Electronic Transactions Ordinance to provide
  legal framework for electronic transactions
• Legal recognition for electronic records and
  digital signatures
• Review to provide the most up-to-date legal
  framework

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Public key infrastructure

• Public key infrastructure established
• Four recognised certification authorities
• The worlds first to issue mobile digital
  certificates for community-wide adoption
• Wireless stock trading, banking and betting

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E-government developments

• Clear E-government strategy
• Over 70 of public services have provided
  e-option
• Electronic Service Delivery Scheme
• Amongst the top in the world in terms of
  E-government development

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Electronic Tendering System

• One of the worlds first web-based electronic
  tendering systems
• Issue tenders and receive bids securely via the
  Internet
• Leading Asia in terms of online procurement

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Dynamic business sector

• Large businesses
• develop portals for online trading and logistics
  services
• Small businesses
• - Small food shops receive
• take-away orders online
• - Vegetable wholesalers receive
• purchase orders and issue payment requisitions
  online
• - photo shops receive photo
• images and orders online

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E-entrepot for online services

• Excellent connectivity with the Mainland and the
  rest of the world
• Edge in providing business support services
• E-entrepot for online services along the global
  supply chains

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E-logistics development

• Electronic submission of trade-related documents
• Paperless submission of air, sea and rail cargo
  manifests
• Studying a similar system for road cargo

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Wireless SCM

• Exchange and share information over wireless
  devices
• Free supply chain operation from traditional
  barriers
• Advanced mobile telecommunications network
• Third generation of mobile service at door-step

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Government Funding Support

• SME Development Fund
• Over 21 million disbursed to drive adoption of
  IT by SMEs

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Thank you