Asia Broadband Program

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Asia Broadband Program
Ministry of  Public Management, Home Affairs,
Posts and Telecommunications, Japan March 2004
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Why Broadband (BB) is important in Asia?
1. Significance of Broadband (in general)
(1) High-speed, always-on and flat rates
Enabling to overcome the restraints of
time/space Socio-economic
development Economic integration
mutual understanding among economies etc.
2. Significance of Broadband in Asian context
(1) Huge population, potential for growth
BB has significant impact. (2) BB brings closer
relationships among economies (3) BB helps
preserve Asia's diversified culture etc.
growth in information flow, making Asia
an information hub in the world
It is vital to diffuse encourage the use of BB
in Asia.
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Asia Broadband Program (March 28, 2003)
The "Asia Broadband Program" is an action program
initiated by the Japanese government to promote
deployment and use of broadband in Asia.
- e-Japan Strategy ? (July 2003) stipulates
that Asia Broadband Program shall be steadily
promoted. - Asia Broadband Program is made up
of A. Targets (by 2010) B. Measures to
be taken 1)Measures to build BB network
infrastructure 2)Measures to diffuse BB.
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ABPs Targets (by 2010)

• 1. Ensure broadband access for all people in
  Asia
• (including access from various public
  facilities).
• 2. (a) Build intl networks with sufficient
  bandwidth
• (b) Balance volumes of information flows.
• (Asia-North America Asia-Europe
  North America-Europe)
• 3. Facilitate transition to IPv6-ready networks.
• 4. Prepare environment for secure and easy use of
  ICT
• 5. Digitize and archive Asian cultural assets.
• 6. Develop machine translation technologies for
  Asian languages.
• 7. Increase number of ICT engineers and
  researchers.

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Measures to be taken
1. Measures to build network infrastructures
related to broadband

• A) Support for network infrastructure
  building in developing countries
• B) Promotion of international network
  construction in Asia
• C) Development of network technologies
• D) RD and technical standardization
• E) Human capacity building / Exchange
  of human resources
• A) Preparation of common
  infrastructures
• (Network security, IPRs, IPv6,
  etc.)
• B) Promotion of broadband applications
• C) Promotion of digital content
  distribution
• (Multilingual translation
  technologies, digital archives, etc. )
• D) Support for national strategies and
  policies, etc.
• E) Support for developing countries

2. Measures to introduce and diffuse broadband
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Progress in Asia Broadband Program
1. Collaboration with other Asian countries
2. International Joint Projects

• Collaboration among Japan, China, Korea
• Bilateral agreements with
• -Thailand, Malaysia(Jan.2003),
• -Indonesia, Vietnam(Sep.2003)
• -Cambodia (Mar. 2004)
• Bilateral policy dialogue with
• Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam,
• Malaysia, etc.

• RD of Asia Broadband Satellite Key
• Technologies
• International Joint IT Experiment
• -China Japan Advanced IT Collaboration
• -Singapore Japan Advanced IT Collaboration
• Ultra high speed Internet Satellite WINDS
• Loan Assistance (ODA)
• - North-South Submarine Fiber Optic Cable
• Link Project (Vietnam) (March 2003)

3. Strengthening of HRD
4. Multilateral Cooperation

• World Summit on Information Society
• (Dec. 2003)
• - Put importance of Broadband in
  Declaration
• Asia Broadband Summit (Jul.2004)
• Japan-China-Korea Ministerial Meeting
• (3rd) (Summer 2004)
• ASEAN3 TELMIN (Summer 2004)

• Holding seminars
• e.g. - ICT seminar (in Indonesia, Feb.2004)
• -e-Government seminar (in Japan, Mar.2004)
• Organizing training courses
• Dispatch ICT policy experts to Asian
• countries
• etc.

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RD of Asia Broadband Satellite Key Technologies
JSAT
Contractor - RD in collaboration with
universities/research institutes in Japan and
Asian countries - Develop technologies proposed
for international standards - Encourage
widespread use of IPv6 technologies (1)
IPv6-ready large-scale multicasting
technology (2) IPv6-ready dynamic band
assignment/control technology
The Philippines ASTI (Advanced Science and
Technology Institute)
Vietnam IOIT (Institute of Information
Technology)
Keio University
Thailand AIT (Asian Institute of Technology)
Internet
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Malaysia USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
Singapore TP (Tamasek Polytechnic)
- Evaluate the key technologies - Carry out
research on application technologies, such as
transmission/synchronization of high-quality
sound/movies, distance learning
Indonesia ITB (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
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Support for e-government
Government Portal Site
Internet
Other e-government projects -Introduction of
information system inside agencies -e-procure
ment
(Broadband)
Users(consumers, companies, etc.)
- information search - application (for
government permission, etc)
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- Other general information including addresses,
contact points, etc. - Link to homepages of
local governments

• Information on administrative documents

• Information on government agencies' homepages
• - Information on white papers, reports, press
  release, etc.

• Information on application and reporting
  procedures
• Forms of applications available to download
• Application processing

- Common government database of information such
as laws, etc.
Support
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Support for e-learning
Lectures and QA
Broadband Internet
Broadband enables to show students visual
images that help their understanding.