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| The next APIRA meeting will be held in Taipei, by TWNIC in August, 2006. |
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The 1st APIRA international conference
has made a great success in Macao and Hong Kong
August 20, 2004
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Scholars, experts and professionals
from International Telecommunication Union (ITU), CNNIC,
NIDA(formerly KRNIC), TWNIC, Macao and Taiwan, Japan, Korea,
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other countries/regions
have all attended the conference. It contained two sessions:
Country/Regional report session and Theme Paper session.In
the Country/Regional report session, delegates from different
countries/regions presented their survey methodologies and
latest technical research achievements. |
| By means of questions and answers
at the presentation, all participants shared information
with others and benefited from learning experience from
others in the field of Internet statistical survey. Beside
the country/regional reports, representatives also described
the Internet development situation in respective country/region.
In the Theme Paper session, representatives from Macao,
Japan, South Korea, Nielson//NetRatings, iResearch from
Chinese mainland described topics such as social trust on
Internet, business opportunities for Internet companies,
measuring E-Commerce and so on. In the conference in Hong
Kong, issues such as broadband adoption, E-government, measuring
ICT for development and re-analysis and reuse of Internet
statistical data were also discussed. |
The rapid development of Internet has brought in significant
changes to the world. But the phenomenon of ¡°Digital Divide¡±
exists almost everywhere, which is the description of a
figurative gap between the unbalanced development and distribution
of Internet. Meanwhile, there are also big differences between
the methodologies of the statistical survey on Internet
adopted by different organizations. |
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| The intention of the establishment of APIRA
is that by the alliance of different Internet research organizations
in Asia Pacific region, all APIRA members use unified and
comparable statistical criteria for the survey on Internet
development in respective country/region at the end of every
year and the survey results are compared and analyzed so
as to find out the root causes of the imbalance of the Internet
development in those countries/regions, and as such, help
them to take effective steps to close the gap of the ¡°Digital
Divide¡±, facilitate the improvement of the Internet development
in Asia Pacific region, and finally make the Asia Pacific
Internet industry one of the most influential and important
one in the world. Still, APIRA is looking forward to seeing
more organizations¡¯ joining. |
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