The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) are organizing the 16th Interagency Working Group on ICT through ICTs and Space Technology.

The consultation will take place on 22 November 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. The objective of the consultation is to .

Related documents:

• Tentative Programme
• Information Note for Participant
• List of participants
• Outcome document commented
• Report
• Presentations:
• Session 1:
  • Regional connectivity agenda: Strategies for single information space
  • Making broadband affordable in Asia
  • Enabling the network society
  • Expanding regional connectivity in Asia and the Pacific
• Session 2:
• Knowledge networked society for resilient development: Big trends and big data
• ICT innovation and resilience building
• The future strategy for Smart Society, Smart Korea
• Can mobile boom leapfrog the digital divide in Sri Lanka ?
• Broadband strategy & broadband network trends of China
• Session 3:
• Digital inclusion and resilient development
• Meaningful broadband model: Its application in Asia and its potential in Asia
• Reassessing contemporary approaches to digital inclusion & braodband development: Meaningful public policy and regulatory innovations
• Using ICT to make growth more inclusive in Sri Lanka
• Session 4:
• The United Nations Electronic Communications Convention: an Overview
• Policy considerations on the Electronic Communications Convention
• Integration of the:ECC, New York Convention and CISG
• Establishing an enabling cross-border legal environment for regional connectivity: The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communication in International Contracts, 2005 and Electronic Transaction Law in Thailand
• Session 5:
• Use of electronic communications in customs
• Incorporating digital signing & encryption in transactions in the payment system of Sri Lanka
• Technology outcome of the Electronic Transactions ACT of 2006
• UN Electronic Communications Convention & Electronic Transaction Act No. 19 of 2006, national implementation
• Session 6:
• ESCAP work programme on electronic single window legal issues and cross-border paperless trade facilitation
• Legal Environment for Electronic Single Windows
• Enabling legal environment for paperless trade
• Legal environment for electronic single windows and paperless trade in Korea
• ESCAP Resolution 68/3: Enabling paperless trade and the cross-border recognition of electronic data and documents for inclusive and sustainable intraregional trade facilitation
• Background publications:
  • Session 1
  • Building regional connectivity
  • Making broadband affordable using the Asian Highway
  • Enabling the networked society
  • Session 2
  • ICT innovations: their contribution to knowledge-networked societies and resilience in Asia-Pacific