Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and e-business

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1 Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and e-business AFACT Trade Facilitation Programme Mahmood Zargar General Secretary ROC TF Annual Meeting Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2015 Shangri-La Hotel, Wuhan, China October 2015

2 AFACT is the Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business from It s a non-profit, Non-governmental organization that is open to participation from the representatives of member countries and experts from academic and business sectors within the Asia-Pacific region.

3 Associate Members AFACT aims to promote the commitment and development of trade facilitation, electronic business policies and activities in the Asia Pacific region, mainly focusing on those promoted by UN/CEFACT to guide, stimulate, improve and promote the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations. AFACT is Regional partner of UNCEFACT. UNESCAP representative is a member of Steering Committee of AFACT. The PAA is theaptff associate Shangri-La Hotel, member Wuhan, of AFACT.

4 Member Countries Currently, there are 19 members from Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, China, Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Each member country is represented by a local organization dedicated in promoting the application of standards, recommendations, or cooperation in implementing trade facilitation and ecommerce initiatives.

5 Most Active member countries in AFACT JASTPRO, Japan Industry Information Institute (III), Chinese Taipei Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA), Thailand Crimsonlogic, Singapure Dagangnet, Malaysia Ministry of Commerce & Industry, India Ministry of industry and Trade, VietNam ecommerce Center, Iran NIPA, Korea

6 Host Countries 2014: Thailand, Bangkok 2015: Iran: Plenary meeting will be held on 13 th 16 th Dec at Tehran. 2016: Japan, Mid-term meeting will be held on May 2016 at Tokyo

7 Trade Facilitation Programms Business Domain Committee SHARP Working Group Tourism, Travel & Leisure WG (TT & L WG) Technology and Methodology Committee (TMC) Cloud Computing Working Group Community Support Committee (CSC) Annual easia Award

8 SHARP Working Group In order to develop the simplified, advanced, paperless and legally provable environment for business, trade and administration, sharp WG outlines the trusted communication platform for exchanging electronic documents between (business) via Internet. For that, Sharp WG focuses on three following properties needed for trusted communication platform: - secured property means to assure safe electronic transmissions by means of information security among bi/muti parties - authenticated property means to prove the electronic document produced from reliable communication between partners - accountable property means to explain the legality of electronic documents including identification, authorization, archiving and so on SHARP WG: ISO/TC154: Trusted Communication Platform Updates

9 Tourism, Travel & Leisure WG (TT & L WG) In the Asia Pacific region, the travel, tourism and leisure working area is rapidly growing. This region has so diversified travel related resources that it is expected to distribute information on them as widely as possible and exchange information for commerce, study, publication, or any other purposes not only within the region but also with the world by using the currently established world information exchange standards and when needed by cooperatively developing new such standards with UN/CEFACT Forum, etc.

10 Tourism, Travel & Leisure WG (TT & L WG) AFACT TT&L updates (Bangkok Meeting Minutes, 25th UNCEFACT Forum in Geneva Minutes, etc) SLH (Small scaled Lodging House) International Pilot Project,Progress Report, System Architecture, Schedule, System Development, System Management (Domain Naming, Documents Filing, Pilot Project Management in General, etc.) Cloud and Relevant Technologies, standards to develop DTI (Destination Travel Information) Progress Report, Comments and Discussion APTFF Shangri-La on Hotel, BRS Wuhan, & RSM

11 Community Support Committee (CSC) The purpose of the AFACT CSC is to provide necessary support to AFACT community directly, in consultation with the Steering Committee, on survey of status with respect to electronic business and trade facilitation, capacity building, awareness and promotion of standards and specifications developed by UN/CEFACT and other related international standard bodies in the areas of electronic business and trade facilitation.

12 Technology and Methodology Committee (TMC) TMC is to promote the implementation of ebusiness Technologies and Methodologies based on ebusiness standards for facilitating e-business / e-trade in Asia Pacific Region, in order to enable a global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other. TMC contributes the global business standardization activities of UN/CEFACT, OASIS and other international organizations for standardization and trade facilitation through harmonization and interoperability in e- Business / e-trade.

13 Technology and Methodology Committee (TMC) UN/CEFACT technical update: Conformance project, Library review CCL utilization in Asia (with CSC s input of progress status on local language translation and publication on the AFACT website)

14 Cloud Computing Working Group To establish a standard format and mechanism for the interoperable virtual appliance marketplace for the cloud applications and for trading the virtual appliance for the cloud applications. Deploying applications and services in standardscompliant environment avoids vendor lock-in and enables AppStore for Cloud applications and services. To establish the best practice for utilizing DMTF and TOSCA international standard for migrating applications and services into cloud and between clouds.

15 easia Award In four categories between Asia and Pacific Countries for projects and practices finished and in experience: Trade Facilitation, E-Business in Public Sector, E-Business in Private Sector, Bridging Digital Gap

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