Asia Broadband Backbone Committees August 30, 2002 Shigeki Goto, Kazunori Konishi (APAN-JP)

APAN Topology

Europe (30) Gbps Asia (18) 9.7Gbps Africa(18) 0.01Gbps North America (2) 55.2Gbps Central and South America (16) 1.9Gbps Current Status of Information Distribution within Asia (International Internet bandwidth) There is a need to create an environment under which increased information distribution corresponding to economic development in Asia and strengthened economic collaboration within the region can be realized. (Source: “Packet Geography 2002,” TeleGeography, Inc.) Figures in parentheses indicate the number of countries/economies.

Trends and Direction of International Information Distribution Along with increased information flow within Asia, it is forecast that international information distribution will shift to more balanced information flow in terms of volume. 162 Gbps Europ e Asia North America 1 Gbps 42 Gbps Balanced future Europe Asia Korea Chin a Thailand Singapore Malaysi a Japan Europ e Asia North America Ref.: World trade volume $428 billion $564 billion (Source: CIAJ based on “Packet Geography 2002,” TeleGeography, Inc.) (Source: “WTO International Trade Statistics 2000” 〕 $413 billion North America

Potentials of Asia Population coverage rate of the Internet by country in Asia Population coverage rate of the Internet by country in Europe (Source: White Paper 2002 “Information and Communications in Japan” 〕

Toward Developing the “Asia Broadband Program” 1.Bridge the digital divide and set common goals within the Asian region 2.Respect economic and cultural diversity 3.Ensure closer collaboration among public/private sectors, NPOs, international organizations and support the efforts of these parties 1.Bridge the digital divide and set common goals within the Asian region 2.Respect economic and cultural diversity 3.Ensure closer collaboration among public/private sectors, NPOs, international organizations and support the efforts of these parties To make the entire Asian region a global information transmission hub through increasing information distribution within the region.

Joint Efforts Japanese government will play the key roles for IT deployments in Asia, but should be widely collaborated by –Joint planning with leaders in other countries –Wide range participants including government, private sectors and NPOs –Advanced Experiments & Educations –Expanding Intra-regional communications

Two committees Strategic Committee –hosted by the Minister of “PTT” –will decide the guideline –Chair: Jiro Ushio (Ushio Electric Co., Ltd.) Planning Committee –hosted by the Vice Minister of “PTT” –will make the plan based on the guideline by the Strategic Committee –Chair: Shigeki Goto (Waseda Univ.) PTT = Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications

Summary of 1 st Strategic Committee 1. The common objectives should be the stimulation of information distribution within Asia region along with establishing the entire Asia region as a global information base. 2. Respect should be given to the economics, social and cultural diversity in the Asia region.

Summary (Continued) 3. Participation by all related countries in the Asia region and close cooperation between a wide range of entities such as governments, the private sector and NPOs shall be ensured. 4. Exhibiting ownership by all related parties including governments, the private sectors and NPOs is essential. 5. Consideration shall be paid to the elimination of the digital divide in the Asia Region.

Proposals are requested The deadline is Aug. 28, 2002 Format: –Project name: –Target date/year: –History & Status: –Action plan:

Schedules July 22: 1st Strategic/Planning meeting Aug. 28: Deadline of the Proposal Sep. 11: 2 nd Planning Committee Oct? Interim Report Nov? Dec? Final Report Jan: IT Summit?

Members from APAN and related organizations Strategic Committee –Shigeki Goto (JP) –Jun Murai (JP) –Yong-Jin Park (KR) –Sureswaran Ramadass (MY) –Royol Chitradon (TH) –L.W.C.Wong (SG) Planning Committee –Shigeki Goto (JP) –Kazunori Konishi (JP) –Yong-Jin Park (KR) – Izumi Aizu (JP) – Toru Takahashi (JP) – Tommy Matsumoto (JP)