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Global Standards Conference - 1st Announcement

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 16:33:33 -0400 From: Peter Lefkin To: iisp-gen Subject: Global Standards Conference - 1st Announcement

INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE STANDARDS PANEL (IISP)

Below you will find the full text of the first announcement for the Global Standards Conference on October 1-3, 1997 in Brussels. Please feel free to forward this announcement to others who may be interested.

Since its inception, in early 1996, representatives of the Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP), the U.S. Government (Department of Commerce), and private industry, have been representing the United States on the international Conference Steering Group for the Global Standards Conference. The Conference Steering Group has the overall responsibility for the organization and planning of the Conference. Other participant regions on the international Steering Group include: Europe, Japan, and Canada. The three sponsoring international organizations, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are also participating on the Conference Steering Group.

The full conference information, including the program schedule, speakers for the plenaries and theme groups, registration information, etc., is scheduled to be distributed and posted to the web in early June 1997. Updates during the lead-up to the conference will be linked from IISP's web site at, http://www.ansi.org/iisp/gisconf.html, and posted on the official conference web site. The Official Conference information can be found on the European Commission's Information Society Project Office (ISPO) web site at, http://www.ispo.cec.be/standards/conf97/.

Questions regarding the conference can be directed to the Conference Secretariat at glstdconf@dg3.cec.be. Questions regarding U.S. participation in the conference may be directed to Peter Lefkin (plefkin@ansi.org) or Chick Hayden (chayden@ansi.org).

Best regards,

Peter B. Lefkin Program Manager, Information Infrastructure Programs American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 11 West 42nd Street, NY, NY 10036, USA 212.642.4979 - (fax) 212.398.0023 plefkin@ansi.org http://www.ansi.org/iisp/

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GLOBAL STANDARDS CONFERENCE - first announcement

Building the Global Information Society for the 21st Century New Applications and Business Opportunities: Coherent Standards and Regulations

Sponsored by ISO/IEC/ITU Hosted by the European Commission

Brussels, 1-3 October 1997 Palace and Sheraton Hotels

WHY THIS CONFERENCE?

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the timely and coherent development of the Global Information Society/Global Information Infrastructure (GIS/GII) by identifying and promoting the resolution of outstanding standardization issues. The first steps towards a GIS/GII have already been taken and an opportunity now exists to assess actual applications and to pinpoint the factors contributing to their success. This major global conference is intended to follow-up on the identification/recognition by G7 Ministers in February, 1995 of the importance of promoting interoperability to futher develop the GIS/GII.

The Conference is market focused and its objective is to offer an Open Forum for the essential market players (users, system suppliers, network service providers, information service providers, content providers, standards related bodies, regulators, public policy makers) to :

  • exchange views regarding actual and potential applications along with
    • related practical experience;

  • identify factors leading to the successful and fast implementation of
    • selected applications, and the business opportunities that these will offer;

  • investigate the standards (voluntary and mandatory) and related
    • technical regulations that are needed to shape the implementation of GIS/GII, so that it may realize its full potential in the global environment;

  • share perspectives on the appropriate timing of the implementation of
    • applications to meet GIS/GII needs.

    The Conference will provide an opportunity:

  • to gain a better understanding of the status of G7, national and
    • transnational GIS/GII projects,

  • to share experiences about implementation successes and failures,

  • to learn how timely standards helped resolve difficulties and
    • impediments in developing new markets, new products and new applications through the promotion of global interoperability and functionality,

  • to explore new ways to facilitate development of new
    • products/markets/applications by getting, for example, the right standards at the right time, and to identify and promote methods for achieving global functionality and interoperability.

    The Conference will contribute a renewed motivation for action and a vision for how to successfully realize new business opportunities and the global implementation of GIS/GII. The conference will promote opportunities by referring its results, including perspectives for the future and key issues, to the appropriate organizations, rather than attempting to determine solutions per se. This approach should permit more time for identification of opportunities and discussion of views on how further progress in achieving the GIS/GII can be realized. Through a wide diffusion of results, the Conference will provide a clear awareness of issues and solutions experienced.

    HOW IS IT STRUCTURED?

    The conference intends to provide a clear awareness of the issues and experience in standards development in order to promote progressive action throughout the industry.

    Four major themes will be addressed in workshops during the event:

  • Electronic commerce - topics such as banking, financial services,
    • teleshopping and trade.

  • Services to the public - for example, service information, libraries,
    • museums, remote provision of welfare services, education, telemedicine and intelligent transportation telematics systems.

  • Individual use - services including interactive entertainment,
    • telelearning and the provision of information and communications.

  • Communications infrastructure interoperability (a horizontal topic).

    • The programme is being developed to ensure the greatest opportunity for creative discussion. The sessions on the first and last days will be plenaries in which the status of existing Global Information Society projects will be reviewed, and the potential for consensus-based standardization and public policy initiatives for the enhancement of Global Information Society development processes will be discussed.

    The second day will be devoted to four workshops, run in parallel, to explore the four major themes. The workshops will provide the opportunity to discuss widely-recognized Global Information Society needs, such as security, encryption, privacy, multilingualism support, user interface, and practical interactive communications which are made possible by interoperability, in specific applications of relevance both to business and to the citizen. The results of the thematic workshops will be summarized and presented for discussion to all the conference delegates in the plenary session on the last day of the Conference.

    WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

    With its clear focus on market developments and business opportunities, the Conference is an essential forum for CEOs, senior managers and business leaders from:

  • Users: Information infrastructures and services users: small, medium
    • and large enterprises, central and local governments, individual user groups and local communities, etc

  • Suppliers/Developers: Major standards developers, suppliers involved
    • in global standardization programmes, GIS application developers, information content providers, service providers, Internet providers, business circles, trade/industry associations, financial institutions, researchers involved in GIS/GII pilot projects.

  • Leaders in standardization and Government representatives involved in
    • public policy and/or standardization: Standards development organisations (including international, regional and national partners), Governmental agencies, public policy makers, Government officials involved in standardization and technical regulations affecting GIS/GII.

    The aim is to achieve a carefully-balanced audience, ensuring that all major players are represented, from all regions of the world, both developed and developing countries, from industry, public authorities, standardization organisations, service providers and academics.

    ABOUT THE VENUE

    The newly-renovated Palace Hotel, with its distinctive Art Nouveau atmosphere, is situated in central Brussels, with the Botanical Gardens on its doorstep. On the opposite side of the square is the Sheraton Hotel, where two of the one-day thematic workshops will be held.

    The world-famous Grand Place and its neighbouring streets of notable restaurants is just five minutes walk away. The hotels have easy access to the inner ring road and the main train station, and are on the metro line.

    A registration fee of 25,000 BEF will be charged for this prestigious event. To ensure that the conference can fully achieve its objective of full delegate involvement, the number of places available will be limited.

    Full information, including the programme schedule, registration forms and hotel details, will be distributed in the early summer of 1997, and updates during the lead-up to the Conference will be available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ispo.cec.be/standards/conf97

    WORKSHOP THEMES

    An international Conference Steering Group has the overall responsibility for the organisation of the Conference, whilst autonomous thematic planning groups are working on the preparation of the Conference content. Here are the contact details for the lead and regional coordinators of each thematic workshop:

    Theme 1 - Electronic Commerce

    Lead coordinator US: Jay M. Tenenbaum (Commerce Net) jmt@commerce.net Regional coordinators US: George Spix (Microsoft) gspix@microsoft.com EU: Claude Boulle (Bull) c.boulle@frlv.bull.fr CA: Jake Knoppers (Canaglobe International Inc) mpereira@istar.ca JP: Tatsuo Goto (NEC Corporation) JAT09653@pcvan.nec.co.jp

    Theme 2 - Services to the public

    Lead coordinator EU: Wolfram Berger (Ministerialdirigent - German Ministry of Economics) berger@bonn1.bmwi.bund400.de Regional coordinators EU: George Hall (ICL) g.hall@lon1105.wins.icl.co.uk CA: David Clemis (interim)(Industry CA) clemis.david@ic.gc.ca JP: Shozo Tanaka (Fujitsu Ltd) PDG02575@niftyserve.or.jp US: Peter Waegemann (Medical Records Institute) cpw@medrecinst.com

    Theme 3 - Individual use

    Lead coordinator CA: Claudine Simson (Nortel Technology) csimson@nortel.ca Regional co-ordinators CA: Paul Jay (Nortel Technology) paul_jay@nortel.com JP: Shoei Kataoka (Sharp Corporation) kataoka@sharp.co.jp US: Mary Anne Lawler (IBM Corp) cirsmdg@rhqvm07.vnet.ibm.com EU: Georg Luetteke (Philips-DE) luetteke@mail.hamburg.com

    Theme 4 - Interoperability

    Lead coordinator JP: Sadahiko Kano (NTT Corp.) KANO.Sadahiko@nw.hqs.ntt.co.jp Regional coordinators JP: Hajime Yamada (NTT Corp.) hyamada@es.hqs.ntt.co.jp US: Thomas Spacek (Bellcore) spacek@bellcore.com EU: Heinz Wichards (Deutsche Telekom) wichards@07.bonn02.telekom400.dbp.de CA: George Arnold (TSACC/Lucent) garnold@lucent.com

    MAKE A NOTE OF THIS GLOBAL EVENT IN YOUR DIARY NOW 1-3 October 1997 in Brussels!

    CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT European Commission, Directorate General III - Industry with the support of CEN/EWOS Rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel +32 2 511 7455 Fax +32 2 511 8723 email glstdconf@dg3.cec.be URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/standards/conf97 ```

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