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Keynote: DTTN – Opportunities and Challenges for IT Industry and Users by Peter Stokes
The Mainland's tremendous growth and increasing openness offers great opportunities for Hong Kong. It also poses significant challenges and threats, including to Hong Kong's position as a premier logistics hub.

The Digital Trade and Transportation Network (DTTN) is a HKSAR Government and Logistics Development Council (LogsCouncil) initiative to help Hong Kong improve its competitiveness and to further develop itself as a logistics hub and a supply chain base to link the Mainland with the world. It will be operated according to a set of guiding principles that emphasize the importance of the DTTN's neutrality, its openness and its community role.

The secure, state-of-the-art core DTTN document exchange platform is now being built. Its aim is to provide a complementary, trusted, low cost electronic infrastructure that all the trade, transportation, and finance communities can interconnect with either directly, or indirectly via application service providers.

With a critical mass of participants the DTTN will bring major benefits to the logistics and financial communities, and their service and software providers. These include significant operational efficiencies, additional revenue opportunities and the potential to offer innovative value added services that capitalize upon cost effective electronic interconnections with large numbers of SME's and the immediate availability of pertinent commercial information.

Keynote: APEC Paperless Trading Project by FD Zhan
In order to take advantage of information technology and e-commerce, accelerate the process of paperless trading development in APEC region, "APEC Blueprint for Action on E-Commerce" was approved in 1998. APEC Ministers agreed that member economies should realize paperless trading, where possible, by 2005 for developed and 2010 for developing economies, or as soon as possible thereafter. To assess and evaluate the paperless trading development status of APEC member economies, APEC Ministerial Meeting formally approved "APEC Assessment Report on Paperless Trading" in November 2005.

The objective of this report is to set up the assessment indexes, evaluate the realization level of paperless trading in the region from the aspects of application environment, application levels and application results, summarize various application models, and propose suggestions on paperless trading from the implementation point of view.

Program

		Updates on Electronic Transactions Enabling Standards and Solutions for IT Industry and Users: Web Services, UBL and ebXML by Tim McGrath In 1623, Francis Bacon said, 'let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.' This presentation examines the dichotomy between creating usable systems and standardization of electronic transactions. The speaker will look at what is meant by standards and highlight how XML frameworks such as ebXML and vocabularies such as UBL seek to achieve a balance between the two.

		Case Study: Business-to-Government in Denmark and Benefits for Government, IT and Suppliers' Communities by Thomas Pedersen Since 1 February 2005, the commerce between government and suppliers has gone through dramatic changes. As of that date, suppliers to the Danish government, both local and central have had to send invoices electronically. One year after the initiative, the effect has been overwhelming. Out of the potential, more than 95% of the invoices are electronic today, meaning that more than 1.2 million invoices received by the Danish government electronically every month. The speech will focus on how this success was achieved - What were the critical success factors? How was the project implemented? What lessons were learned? And how could other governments benefit from the Danish experience?

		Case Study: Bridging Electronic Transactions between US Buyers and Hong Kong / China Suppliers by Paul Wong "If you build it, they will come" might work for a Field of Dreams in a corn field in middle America, but when it comes to bridging transactions between US Buyers and their global suppliers, having the technology and infrastructure alone might not be good enough. ecVision has been enabling Asian suppliers for e-commerce since 1998. During that time we have connected over 3,500 trading partners in over 40 countries. This session will touch on how ecVision accomplishes this feat and the lessons we learned integrating HK / China suppliers into the global supply chain of US buyers.

		E-Transaction Technology R&D in Hong Kong by Thomas Lee