Programme for APRICOT Policy Track (Co-ordinated by APPLe)

	APRICOT'99 Policy Track Program

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.	Policy Track Program Friday, 5 March 1999 Co-ordinated by APPLe

The Policy TRack is included in the full conference fee paid for by APRICOT attendee.

If you are interested in only the Policy Track, you can attend at a special rate of S$50. Just sign up using the APRICOT online registration form and there is a slot there for APPLE/Policy Track only attendees.

9.00 am to 10.00 am APRICOT PLENARY SESSION KEYNOTES (Room 208/209)

Mr Leong Keng Thai, Director General of the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS), "The International Charging Arrangements for Internet Services study within APEC"
Ms Esther Dyson, Chair of ICANN, "Update on ICANN"

10.00- 10.30 Q&A

10.30- 11.00 coffee break

The Internet industry and International Infrastructure issues
(Room 201)

11.00- 12.30 ISP roundtable session "How can the APEC study on International Internet financing benefit ISPs in this region"

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting in June 1998, adopted a resolution to study the International Charging Arrangements for Internet Services, and if and when appropriate to adopt solutions. Singapore was the proposing economy and has initiated the launch of this study by offering to pay for the initial part of the study. The Request for Proposals was released and a consortium of consultants has been chosen to lay out the issues. This is an issue that lies at the heart of ISPs bottom line, and is not new to them. Yet, how can APEC’s involvement affect them or even benefit them and some of the fundamentals of this problem, will be some of the issues explored in this roundtable session.

Co-Chairs

Ms Valerie D’Costa, Head of International Affairs of TAS and Vice-Chair of APEC Telecom Working Group
Ms Laina Raveendran Greene, Chair of APPLe and Managing Director of GetIT Pte Ltd (former Secretary General and Policy Advisor of the Asia & Pacific Internet Association)

Discussants:

Mr Kenneth Cukier, EMap
Mr Sam Paltridge, OECD
Mr Yoshihiro Obata, KDD

Roundtable Panelists:

Dr Jin Ho Hur, Director, APIA
Dr Mohamed b. Awang-Lah, MIMOS
Mr Geoff Houston, Telstra
Mr Robert Collet, Teleglobe
Mr Chip Barton, AT&T (TBC)
Mr John Milburn, Dacom
Mr Morragot Kulatumyotin, Internet Thailand
Mr Lim Hock Koon, Pacific Internet
Mr Vab Goel, Qwest

Lunch for APPLe attendees only in Room 208/209 sponsored by the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) - this lunch is held to enable discussions from earlier sessions to continue over lunch.

Lunch speaker - Ms Barbara Dooley, President and Executive Director of the Commercial Internet Exchange

2.00- 3.30 Dialogue on Intellectual Property Rights issues in general and its impact on the Internet industry (Room 201)

This session will be discuss issues such as ISP liability for copyrights, how does caching fit within Intellectual Property laws, how does the new WIPO Convention influence the internet industry, how does trademarks law apply to domain names, what are the WIPO Panel of experts recommendations to ICANN, etc.

Co- Chairs

Ms Laina Raveendran Greene, Managing Director, GetIT Pte Ltd, Chair of APPLE and member of WIPO Panel of Experts
Mr Rajesh Sreenivasan, Rajah & Tan, Singapore

Panelists:

Mr Mah Swee Keong, Legal Counsel, Pacific Internet
Mr Eric Lee, Legal Counsel, Commercial Internet Exchange
Dr Liu, Professor of Law, Taiwan

3.30-4.00 coffee break

4.00- 5.30 pm Dialogue on content regulations in general and its impact on the Internet industry

This session will cover issues such as censorship laws, spamming, privacy, etc. It will explore how are other countries dealing with content censorship, are their carrier liability risks involved in these regulatory trends that ISPs should be aware of, and are there any global or regional trends in general that the Internet industry should generally, be aware of, etc.

Co-Chairs:

Dr Ang Peng Hwa, Vice Dean of the School of Communications Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ms Ling Pek Ling, Director, Singapore Broadcasting Authority

Panelists:

Mr Chip Barton, AT&T (TBC)
Mr Harry Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mr Pavan Duggal, Cyberlaw consultant, India
Mr Eric Lee, Legal Counsel, Commercial Internet Exchange

Coordination of the Policy Track is undertaken by the APPLe Forum
Suggestions, questions and comments should be sent to Laina R. Greene <laina@getit.org >.

Last updated - 25 Feb 1999 - BRG