The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in collaboration with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of the Government of Sri Lanka, are organizing a Regional Expert Consultation on Connecting Asia-Pacific’s Digital Society for Resilient Development.

The consultation took place on 5-6 September 2012 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The objective of the consultation is to devise ways and review best practices in using ICT connectivity for the resilient development of the region. The consultation will focus on several aspects of regional connectivity, both in terms of infrastructure and the enabling legal environment.

Related documents:

• Programme
• List of participants
• Outcome document
• Presentations:
• Session 1: Expanding regional broadband connectivity
  • 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: ICT innovation and resilience building
• 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: Promoting digital inclusion
• 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: Establishing an enabling cross-border legal environment for regional connectivity
• 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: The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts, 2005-National implementation
• 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: Building an enabling national and international legal environment for electronic single windows and paperless trade
• 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