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| | APEC Senior Officials' Meeting I and Related Meetings, 15-26 January, Canberra, Australia |
| | First Technical Assistance Seminar on International Implementation of the APEC Privacy Framework, 2007: "Creating Trust in developing Cross-Border Privacy Rules: Making Compliance Possible and Enforcement Credible when Personal Information Moves between Economies", 22-23 January, Canberra, Australia |
| | Trading Ideas - the Future of IP in Asia Pacific, 28 - 30 January 2007, Sydney, Australia |
| | 3rd APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Mining, 12-16 February, Perth, Australia |
| | 14th APEC SME Ministerial Meeting and Related Meetings, 04-09 March, Hobart, Australia |
| | APEC 2nd Training Course on E-Trade and Supply Chain Management, 27-29 March, Sanya, Hainan Province, China |
| | APEC Website - Events Calendar |
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Vol.11, January 2007 |
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| At their first meeting for 2007, Senior Officials will have the opportunity to develop a substantial work plan and to set the direction for APEC 2007. The SOM Plenary will make decisions on substantive work programs for 2007 and provide strategic guidance to fora on our objectives and priorities for the year. Topics that will be discussed include trade and investment liberalization and business facilitation; structural reform and behind-the-border issues; economic and technical cooperation (ECOTECH); enhancing human security. Senior Officials' Meetings are held four times a year with the chair from the host economy. |
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| The seminar will bring together key privacy experts, government officials, privacy regulators and supervisory authorities, businesses and APEC member economies to discuss and share ideas with respect to matters that have a significant impact on information privacy protection. Participants are likely to focus on exploring mechanisms that enable industry to meet business and consumer needs through accountable transfers of personal information across economies, which are consistent with the APEC Privacy Framework. Special emphasis will be on the roles of privacy regulators, NGOs, consumers, private sector groups and business that are involved in the development, enforcement or oversight of privacy mechanisms such as Cross-Border Privacy Rules and Trustmarks. |
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| The program features more than 30 expert speakers from the leading and emerging APEC economies and beyond including the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Jon W. Dudas, the President-Elect of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow and executives from companies such as Nokia, Mars Inc, the Motion Picture Association and BlueScope Steel. Session topics include: IP Commercialization Valuation and Licensing IP and Doing Business in APEC economies, IP and Regional Trade Agreements, International IP Asset Management, Copyright and the Challenges Posed by Digital Technologies. |
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| Mining is vital to APEC's economic development and prosperity and sustainable development of APEC's mining industry is in the best interest of the regional community. Facilitating a dialogue between APEC Mining Ministers and the mining business sector, participants will discuss the profile of the APEC mining and minerals industries in the context of global supply and demand. Objectives of the meeting include consideration of a set of non-binding 'APEC Mining Policy Principles; implementation of a sustainable development work plan and the progress of key strategies under the plan; and to foster an environment for information exchange and capacity building through workshops and public-private dialogue. |
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| With more than 49 million SMEs in the Asia-Pacific region, the meeting of ministers and representatives from the Australian and international SME community will play a vital role in improving market access for SMEs in the APEC region. The Ministerial Meeting and Working Group program includes a series of workshops and dialogues involving government and small business representatives. It will seek to build on the momentum established at previous APEC meetings and make a contribution to the APEC year hosted by Australia. |
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| Building on the successful implementation of the first training course conducted in Beijing in October, 2006, the second training aims to reduce the digital divide between SMEs in developing economies and those in developed APEC economies by applying E-business and supply chain management, integrating the expertise of both public and private sectors to better serve the needs of SMEs in the APEC region and accelerate the competitiveness of private business and SMEs in developing economies. It is expected that trainees from member economies will acquire competence in the application of e-trade, e-commerce, e-documents and e-certification. They will receive basic e-trade and supply chain management (SCM) information as well as technical skills so that they will be able to adapt the application and development of e-commerce in their own economy to the international framework of trade facilitation and investment liberalization. |
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To view all APEC events for 2007, click on Find Out More.
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