Chair’s ReportThe 47th APEC Telecommunications and

Information Working Group Meeting(22nd - 27th April 2013, Bali, Indonesia)

Introduction

The 47th APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group (TEL) meeting and associated meetings were held in Bali, Indonesia from 22 to 27 April 2013. The meetings were attended by 15 member economies (Brunei Darussalam; People’s Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; The Philippines; Russia; Singapore; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; The United States; and Viet Nam). Mr. Mikiharu Shimizu, Program Director of the APEC Secretariat, and representatives from APNIC, APLAC, ISOC and INTUG also attended the meetings.

Mr. Kenji Tanaka from Japan chaired the TEL47 meeting with the Vice-Chair, Ms. Nur Sulyna Abdullah from Malaysia.

The meeting was preceded by a number of workshops and meetings, as follows:

22 April(Monday)

MRA TFEnhance competence in implementing ICT universal services programs / projects in APECCybercrime Experts Group

23 April(Tuesday)

MRA TFWorkshop on cloud computing based tele-health management platformWorkshop on APEC Training Program for Preventive Education on ICT MisuseRegulatory RoundtableIndustry RoundtableCybercrime Experts Group

24 April(Wednesday)

Workshop on broadband network development for green growthWorkshop on comparing approaches to Botnet prevention, identification, and mitigationWorkshop on the Transparency of Internet Broadband Access Speeds

1. Welcome and Opening Ceremony

The first plenary meeting of TEL47 was officially opened on the Thursday morning, 25 April 2013.

At the opening ceremony, Mr. Suprawoto, Expert Staff to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, the Republic of Indonesia, welcomed all

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delegates to the meeting. He mentioned that the TEL47 meeting was held in Bali at the perfect time of the APEC Indonesia year. He pointed out that TEL would play a more important role in sharing information and exchanging views and experiences, because the information and communications technology (ICT) sector is an important key towards achieving global growth and will form an essential foundation for development of a digital economy. Referring to the workshops held in the last three days, he emphasized the importance of the multi-stakeholder approach as observed in the workshops where regulators, industry, academics and experts gathered to share in-depth information and study. Lastly, he expressed his conviction that the success of the TEL47 meeting was certain, and also he hoped all the delegates to spend some time to enjoy Bali’s culture and nature.

On behalf of TEL, Mr. Kenji Tanaka, the TEL Chair, expressed his appreciation to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the republic of Indonesia for hosting TEL47. He also thanked for the host’s arrangement for enjoyable visits to Uluwatus and Kerambitan. He said he learned a lot about the importance of the ICT sector from Mr. Suprawoto’s remarks. He pointed out that ICT plays a more important role in our daily life, and expressed his confidence that TEL could contribute to 2013 APEC Indonesia year.

2. Opening Address

In his opening address, Mr. Kenji Tanaka, the TEL Chair, welcomed delegates to the first plenary meeting of TEL47 and expressed his appreciation to Indonesia for hosting TEL47.

He said that TEL has been working on a wide range of regulatory and technological challenges in the ICT sector through cooperation among 21 member economies for more than 20 years. He expressed his confidence that TEL had achieved meaningful contributions to the development in the Asia Pacific region from the aspect of ICT. Referring to the workshops and the roundtables which were held in the previous three days, he said he was sure that TEL has provided a good opportunity for the APEC economies and guests to exchange their views and experiences for further economic growth.

He also mentioned that having received the report of Independent Assessment on TEL in 2012, it would be important and significant for TEL to review the activities taking into account the recommendations made by the independent assessor to make TEL a more active and effective group in APEC. Lastly, he extended his appreciation to Indonesia’s warm hospitality and expressed his expectation to all TEL members’ continuous support and commitment to the meetings.

3. Adoption of Agenda

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The TEL Chair opened the floor for comments on the proposed agenda for the plenary. There were no comments from members and the agenda was adopted as proposed.

4. Report on APEC Developments

4.1 APEC 2013 Priorities / 4.2 Key Outcomes of SOM1 and SOM2 Meetings

The delegates from the Indonesian APEC SOM Chair office made two presentations: 1) APEC 2013 priorities and the current progress; 2) Promoting Connectivity in APEC 2013.

In the first presentation, the delegates provided detailed information on the progress

of three APEC 2013 priorities in SOM 1 and SOM 2 to the TEL members: i) Attaining the Bogor Goals; ii) Sustainable Growth with Equity; and iii) Promoting Connectivity. The delegates also explained the contents of 2013 MRT Statement which was agreed on 21 April in Surabaya, Indonesia, and mentioned that the expectation from the SOM Chair office was to create a good working relationship between the SOM Chair office and TEL.

The second presentation focused on one of the priorities, Promoting Connectivity.

The delegate introduced the instruction from MRT on drafting APEC Framework of Connectivity, which consists of three types of connectivity: “physical”, “institutional” and “people to people.” The draft would be discussed in SOM 3 in July 2013 and endorsed by Leaders and Ministers in October 2013. The delegates asked the TEL members to provide critical suggestions on the development of the Framework, especially by identifying the ICT-related gaps and potential areas of cooperation among fora and subfora, and by advising the emerging trends in ICT in APEC region.

The TEL Chair expressed TEL’s willingness to contribute to the drafting process, and mentioned that TEL would discuss the draft Framework in the next meeting, TEL 48, and would report to the CSOM in October 2013.

4.3 Project Management Update

The Program Director of the APEC Secretariat introduced the detailed timeline for session 2 and session 3 of the project management process in 2013. It was noted that the deadlines for project proposals in session 3 would be prior to TEL48 and therefore the proposals would be reviewed inter-sessionally.

4.4 Independent Assessment

The TEL Chair updated the follow-up activities on the Independent Assessment that TEL underwent in 2012. The assessment report was endorsed by SCE and the SCE Chair requested TEL to consider the recommendations made by the Independent Assessor and

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to report to SCE. The TEL Chair explained the draft TEL’s action on each recommendation, and asked members’ consideration for their endorsement at the last plenary meeting.

5. Presentations by Economies of their Recent Regulatory and Policy Developments

Economies (Brunei Darussalam; People’s Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Republic of Korea; The Philippines; Russia; Chinese Taipei; Thailand and The United States) presented a brief update of regulatory and policy developments. Australia, Japan and Malaysia also reported their regulatory updates by uploading presentation materials.

6. Steering Group Meeting Reports

At the last plenary meeting on the morning of Saturday, 27 April 2013, the reports of Development Steering Group (DSG), Liberalization Steering Group (LSG) and Security and Prosperity Steering Group (SPSG) were presented by their respective Convenors.

6.1 Development Steering Group Meeting (DSG)

The DSG Convenor, Mr. Yu Zhicheng from China, presented the summary report of the DSG meeting (ANNEX A) and requested for the endorsement of one APEC-funded project and for the approval of three self-funded projects, as follows:

- Deployment of multi-language email address technology by China (APEC-funded project),

- Extension of APEC e-Government research center at Waseda University by Japan (self-funded project),

- Extension of ICT applications for the people with special needs (aging and disabilities) by Japan and Singapore (self-funded project),

- Disaster management and ICT for APEC region by Japan (self-funded project).

One self-funded project proposal was unable to reach consensus during DSG meeting, and the Convenor asked to continue reviewing the proposal inter-sessionally as an exceptional case since the project proposal contained a workshop plan at TEL48. The proposal is as follows:

- Interoperable ICT: semantic, linguistic and other aspects by Russia (self-funded project).

The Convenor also requested holding the following workshops/seminars at TEL48:

- ½-day Workshop on development of multi-language email address technology (China),

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- ½-day Workshop on e-Government (Japan),- ½-day Workshop on disaster management and ICT for APEC region (Japan),- 1-day Workshop on interoperable ICT (Russia) (tbc).

6.2 Liberalization Steering Group Meeting (LSG)

The LSG Deputy Convenor, Mr. Nguyen Quy Quen from Viet Nam who facilitated the LSG meeting as Acting Convenor on an ad-hoc basis, presented the summary report of the LSG meeting (ANNEX B) and requested the endorsement of one APEC-funded project, and for the approval of two self-funded projects, as follows:

- Workshop on Over the Top (OTT) services by Indonesia (APEC-funded project),- APEC Workshop on ‘Promoting the development of ICT revolution to assist the

economic growth of small medium enterprise (SMEs) and the small medium micro enterprise (SMMEs) ’ by Malaysia (self-funded project),

- Workshop on the quality of services for regulators by Indonesia (self-funded project).

The Deputy Convenor also requested holding the following workshops/seminars at TEL48:

- ½-day Workshop on ‘Promoting the development of ICT revolution to assist the economic growth of small medium enterprise (SMEs) and the small medium micro enterprise (SMMEs)’ (Malaysia),

- ½-day Workshop on the quality of service for regulators (Indonesia), - ½-day Industry Roundtable (The United States and INTUG),- ½-day Regulatory Roundtable (The United States) (tbc).

The Vice-Chair of MRA Task Force (MRATF), Mr. Saneh Saiwong from Thailand, presented his report on MRATF meeting (ANNEX C) and requested two day MRATF sessions at TEL48.

6.3 Security and Prosperity Steering Group (SPSG)

The SPSG Convenor, Ms. Jordana Siegel from the United States, presented the summary report of the SPSG meeting (ANNEX D) and requested the approval of two self-funded projects, as follows:

- APEC-OECD Symposium on security risk management in the Internet economy by the United States,

- Towards better comparable CSIRT statistics by the United States.

The Convenor also requested holding the following workshops/seminars at TEL48:

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- ½-day APEC-OECD Symposium on security risk management in the Internet economy (The United States),

- ½-day Workshop towards better comparable CSIRT statistics (The United States),- ½-day Workshop on Botnet (United States),- 1 and ½-day Cybercrime experts group meeting (The United States).

7. Discussion / Approval of New Project Proposals / Priority Setting

The following two (2) Concept Notes of APEC-funded projects were endorsed at the plenary:

Title Funding Rank Steering Group

Proposing Economy

Deployment of multi-language email address technology

ASF 1 DSG China

Workshop on Over- the- Top (OTT) ASF 2 LSG Indonesia

The Program Director of the APEC Secretariat distributed prioritization forms to members in order to obtain input into which of the Concept Notes should be submitted to the BMC as of most importance to TEL members. This process resulted in the Concept Note entitled “Deployment of multi-language email address technology” as the higher priority project.

The following seven (7) proposals for self-funded projects were approved at the plenary;

Title Steering Group

Proposing Economy

Disaster management and ICT for APEC region DSG Japan

Extension of APEC e-Government research center DSG Japan

Extension of Project (TEL 01/2011A) on ICT applications for people with special needs (ageing and disabilities)

DSG Japan, Singapore

APEC workshop on ‘Promoting the development of ICT revolution to assist the economic growth of small medium enterprise (SMEs) and the small medium micro enterprise (SMMEs)’

LSG Malaysia

Workshop on the quality of service for regulators LSG Indonesia

APEC-OECD symposium on security risk management in the Internet economy

SPSG US

Towards better comparable CSIRT statistics SPSG US

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The following project proposal was agreed to review inter-sessionally as an exceptional case.

Title Steering Group

Proposing Economy

Interoperable ICT: semantic, linguistic and other aspects DSG Russia

8. Other Business

8.1 Independent Assessment

The TEL Chair advised TEL members that the draft TEL’s action on each recommendation was reviewed in detail in HoD meetings and revised to progress TEL’s activities effectively, and sought members’ endorsement on the draft to report to SCE. “TEL Actions on the Independent Assessment Recommendations” (ANNEX E) was approved by TEL, and it was agreed to report it to SCE.

8.2 Strategic Planning

The TEL Chair informed TEL members that all subfora of APEC including TEL were requested by SCE Chair to formulate its Strategic Plan in the format indicated by SCE. Since TEL already has established the Strategic Action Plan for 2010-2015 which was endorsed by Ministers at TELMIN8 and TELMIN9, the TEL Chair suggested an approach to this issue in reconstructing the elements of Strategic Action Plan into the designated format. The TEL Chair explained that the draft Strategic Plan prepared by TEL Chair’s Office was reviewed and revised in HoD meetings and he sought members’ endorsement on the draft. “TEL Strategic Plan 2010-2015” (ANNEX F) was approved by TEL and it was agreed to report it to SCE.

8.3 Amendment of Inter-sessional approval process

The TEL Chair mentioned that through the experience for the last two years it was considered necessary to revise the guidelines of inter-sessional approval process of project proposals that were agreed by TEL at TEL44. He explained that the draft revised guidelines of inter-sessional approval process prepared by TEL Chair’s Office was reviewed and revised in HoD meetings, and he sought TEL’s endorsement on the draft. TEL agreed to the revised guideline (ANNEX G - I).

As reported by the Program Director of the APEC Secretariat, since the deadline of project proposals for session 3 in 2013 is prior to TEL48, it was confirmed that TEL

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would review project proposals for session 3 inter-sessionally following the revised guideline. It was noted that the project proposal from Russia, which was unable to reach consensus during TEL47, would be reviewed further inter-sessionally as an exceptional case following the revised guidelines.

8.4 Steering Group Convenorship

Having informed TEL members that some positions of Convenors and Deputy Convenors were vacant and that the current MRA TF Vice-Chair was unable to continue his role, the TEL Chair announced that there were nominations to some vacant posts as follows:

- Mr. Mitsuhiro HISHIDA from Japan to the position of the LSG Convenor;- Mr. Christopher Hemmerlein from the United Stated to the position of the DSG

Deputy Convenor; and - Mr. Roger Nien Po Sheng from Chinese Taipei to the position of the MRA TF Vice-

Chair

The nominations were agreed by TEL. The list of the Convenors and MRA TF with new appointment is as follows:

Convenor DeputyConvenor 1

DeputyConvenor 2

DSG:TEL46~49

Mr. Yu Zhicheng(China)

Mr. Wallace Koh Hoe Aik(Brunei)

Mr. Christopher Hemmerlein(USA)

LSG:TEL46~49

Mr. Mitsuhiro Hishida(Japan)

Mr. Nguyen Quy Quyen(Viet Nam)

(vacant)

SPSG:TEL46~49

Ms. Jordana Siegel(USA)

Mr. Thongchai Sangsiri(Thailand)

(vacant)

MRA TF:TEL45~48

Mr. Peter Chau(Canada)

Mr. Roger Nien Po Sheng (Chinese Taipei)

9. Discussion of Future Meetings

9.1 TEL48

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The United States announced that TEL48 will be held in Hawaii, the United States of America from 16 to 21 September 2013. The United States showed the video presentation about Hawaii and welcomed active participation of member economies. The tentative draft program for TEL48 was introduced and agreed as follows:

Morning Noon Afternoon Evening

15 Sep.(Sun)

Preparatory meeting between host and Excomm

Day 116 Sep.(Mon)

MRA TF MRA TF

[Workshop on Interoperable ICT: semantic, linguistic and other aspects (DSG)]

[Workshop on Interoperable ICT: semantic, linguistic and other aspects (DSG)]

[Regulatory Roundtable]  Industry Roundtable

Cybercrime Expert Group Cybercrime Expert Group

Day 217 Sep.(Tue)

MRA TF [MRA TF] or [Demonstration by Host Economy]

Towards Better Comparable CSIRT Statistics (SPSG)

Workshop on Botnet (SPSG)

Cybercrime Expert Group Symposium on Disaster Management and ICT for APEC Region (DSG)

HoD special session HoD special session

Day 318 Sep.(Wed)

Workshop on ‘Promoting the Development of ICT Revolution to Assist the Economic Growth of Small Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and the Small Medium Micro Enterprise (SMMEs)’ (LSG)

HOD meeting

Workshop on the Quality of Service for Regulators (LSG)

WelcomeDinner

APEC-OECD Symposium on Security Risk Management in the Internet Economy (SPSG)

APEC-OECD Symposium on Security Risk Management in the Internet Economy (SPSG)

Workshop on multi-languages email address technology (DSG)

Workshop on APEC e-Government Research Center (DSG)

HoD special session HoD special session

Day 419 Sep.(Thu)

Plenary I DSG

SPSG

Day 520 Sep.(Fri)

LSG HOD meeting

LSG Excomm MeetingNetworking Night

SPSG DSG

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Day 621 Sep.(Sat)

Plenary II [Excursion]

9.2 Potential hosts for meetings after TEL48

Thailand expressed their willingness to host TEL49 and mentioned that they would proceed with internal consultation to obtain formal confirmation.

The Philippines, the host economy of APEC2015, also expressed their willingness to host TEL51 in 2015, and said that they had started internal consultation.

The TEL Chair informed members that Australia indicated their willingness to host TEL50 through correspondence with the TEL Chair during TEL47.

The TEL Chair expressed his deep appreciation to Thailand, the Philippines and Australia for offering to host future TEL meetings, and he said it’s a joyous occasion that there are three volunteers for hosting future TEL meetings.

10. Statements by Observers and Guests

Representatives from APNIC , ISOC and INTUG gave brief updates on their activities and expressed their desire for continued cooperation with TEL.

11. Document Classification

The Program Director of the APEC Secretariat requested the TEL members to finish their revision of the documents, if necessary, in the TEL47 webpage by Friday, 3 May. Also the Program Director announced that he would circulate a draft document classification list to the members after closing the TEL47 webpage for the members’ consideration.

12. Selection of new Vice Chair

Regarding the new Vice Chair, the TEL Chair informed the meeting of the candidate, Mr. Andrey Mukhanov from Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, Russia. Prior to TEL47, the TEL Chair sent an email to the HoDs of members for their consideration. At the HoD meeting during TEL47, the candidature from Russia was reviewed and agreed upon. The Meeting unanimously endorsed Mr. Andrey Mukhanov as TEL’s new Vice Chair.

In his intervention, Mr. Mukhanov expressed his appreciation to all members for their support and to the TEL Chair and Vice Chair for their great contribution to TEL. He also extended his appreciation to Indonesia for hosting the fruitful TEL47 meeting. He

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referred to the high responsibility required of the position, and the importance of the ICT sector in the global development.

13. Remarks by TEL Chair

In his closing remarks, the TEL Chair expressed his appreciation to the host, the Ministry of Communications and Information technology, the Republic of Indonesia, for their warm hospitality and excellent meeting arrangement.

He summarized the outcome of this TEL47 meeting and the major progress that TEL has made during the last two years. Referring to each TEL meeting and TELMIN9, he expressed TEL’s achievement towards the APEC goals. He also expressed his confidence that TEL would continue to contribute to the APEC goals under the new TEL Chairship.

Lastly, he gave his sincere gratitude to economies, the incoming TEL Chair, Ms. Nur Sulyna Abdullah, the APEC Program Director, Mr. Mikiharu Shimizu, and his predecessors, convenors, all the host economies, all the TEL members, and in particular his two assistants, Ms. Yuka Kobayashi and Mr. Atsushi Baba, for their valuable support during his two-years chairship.

14. Handover of TEL Chairship

Mr. Kenji Tanaka handed over the chairship to Ms. Nur Sulyna Abdullah from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.

15. Remarks by new TEL Chair

After the handover of the Chair from Mr. Tanaka to Ms. Nur Sulyna Abdullah, the new TEL Chair thanked Mr. Kenji Tanaka for his commitment and dedication to the work of TEL from TEL44 to TEL47 and wished the best for his post-TEL future undertakings. The new TEL Chair also acknowledged Mr. Liu Ziping who had set the pace for both Mr. Tanaka and herself with his distinctive leadership style during his term as TEL Chair from TEL40 – TEL43. She recalled that it was during Mr. Liu’s term as Chair that she was approached to be the Vice Chair to Mr. Tanaka.

The new TEL Chair also thanked Ms. Yuka Kobayashi and Mr. Atsushi Baba for their diligent work in supporting the TEL Chair for the past two years. A special mention was given to Mr Shoji Mihara and the delegation from Japan who had offered such strong support to the TEL Chair during his term.

She then introduced her team; TEL Chair’s Assistant Ms. Noraini Noor Khan (Nora) and Ms. Nora’s assistant, Ms. Sharifah Khairiyah (Kay). She also welcomed the new

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Vice Chair, Mr. Andrey Mukhanov from the Russian Federation and expressed that she was very much looking forward to working closely with him during her term.

The new TEL Chair then made her first announcement in relation to TEL48. In general, the attire will be Smart Casual except for Plenary I, of which the attire should be Business Attire. She also highlighted immediate challenges which include the vetting of the Connectivity Framework to be developed by Indonesia as the APEC Host for 2013, and the 2016 – 2020 TEL Strategic Action Plan. Both will be the main discussion items for the Special HOD meeting to be held prior to the first Plenary of TEL48.

16. Adjournment

The new TEL Chair announced the closing of TEL47. She wished to all TEL members a safe journey home and looked forward to seeing them in Hawaii at TEL48.

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ANNEX A

47th APEC TEL WORKING GROUP MEETINGICT DEVELOPMENT STEERING GROUP (DSG)

April 26th, 2013Bali, Indonesia

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The DSG Meeting was held on April 26, chaired by Convener Mr. Yu Zhicheng (China), and Deputy Convener, Mr. Wallace Koh Hoe Aik, (Brunei). 53 Delegates from Brunei, P.R China, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, USA, Vietnam, APNIC and Internet Society attended the meeting.

1. OPENING

1.1 Opening and welcome remark from Convener and deputy convenerConvener and deputy convener welcomed all the delegates and thanked Indonesia

for the beautiful meeting venue and warm hospitality.

1.2 Review and Adoption of AgendaThe draft agenda was reviewed and adopted by all the participants. In the agenda,

there were information exchanges on Universal Broadband Access and IPv6 deployment, 5 current project reports, 3 workshop outcomes, 5 new project proposals, review/update of DSG Project Matrix and discussion on APECTEL Strategic Plan 2010-2015 and “Independent assessment report”.

1.3 Notation of TEL46 Convener ReportIn order to have a better continuous acknowledge of DSG work, the TEL46

Convener report was reviewed.

2. INFORMATION SHARING

2.1 Report on Universal Broadband Access and IPv6 deploymentIn this session, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Indonesia, and China shared their

information on Universal Broadband and IPv6 deployment.According to the report from Chinese Taipei, their fixed line broadband

(100Mbps) will achieve 100% household coverage by 2013; Cable TV will be Comprehensively Digitalized by 2014; Optical Fiber Network (FTTx) Subscriptions will be 7.2 Million by 2015; Wireless Broadband Subscriptions will be 11 Million by 2015.

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Since 2012, Chinese Taipei has carried out the broadband upgrading implementation, from 2Mbps to 12Mbps. By 2015, broadband upgrading coverage is estimated to be 95% in remote villages. For the IPv6 development status, Chinese Taipei emphasized several important achievements, relating to ICT products, governmental organizations IPv6 upgrade, personnel training, and IPv6 rapid deployment.

Japan mainly introduced their improvement of broadband infrastructure. By the end of March 2012, Ultra high-speed broadband1households had reached 52.35million, and the coverage rate of service area was 97.3%, more than estimated (96.5%); The Broadband2, households had reached 53.77million, and the coverage rate of service area was 100%, more than estimated (99.7%).

According to Indonesia’s report, based on Q3 Report from the telecommunication operators, the mobile phone users was 262.6 million (more than its population 237.5 million), and the data/internet users reach 115.7 million. According to a report presented by the World Broadband Commission, Indonesia ranked as No. 41 mobile broadband country. For broadband access, wireless broadband was mostly developed in Indonesia, and the 4G implementation still needs ecosystem readiness. IPv6 Task Force members are now ready to supply IPv6 services in Indonesia.

Lastly, China gave a brief presentation on the Internet development and Universal Broadband Access. In China, by the end of 2012, Internet international outbound bandwidth came to 1.85T, and the number of Internet users came to 564 million, with penetration of the Internet reaching 42.1%, of which the number of mobile Internet users accounted for 420 million. For the universal broadband access, by December of 2012, 19,300 more administrative villages had got broadband connections, the penetration rate reached 87.9%. In the aspect of “Rural informatization”, a total of 2,005 new villages and towns have participated in projects, the total penetration rate reached 84%.

2.2 APNIC IPv6 deployment status updateMiwa Fujii, the APNIC Senior IPv6 Program Specialist updated APEC member

economies on the current status of IPv6 deployment in the Asia Pacific region. This presentation provided an update on IPv6 deployment status in a holistic manner by reviewing different statistics in a logical order among different stakeholders.

Based on examined data, Ms. Fujii concluded that we have observed a high level of 1 FTTH, Cable internet, FWA, BWA（ limited to downstream transmission speeds of 30Mbps or more, except for FTTH ) The numbers in parenthesis are data for only fixed broadband service.2 FTTH, Cable internet, FWA, BWA, FWA, Satellite communication, 3.5th generation. The numbers in parenthesis are data for only fixed broadband service

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IPv6 readiness among core transit providers. It appears that IPv4 address exhaustion motivated network operators in the APNIC region to deploy IPv6 networks, and the World IPv6 Launch events in 2011 and 2012 further encouraged that motivation. However, when examining IPv6 deployment from the core towards the edge (that is, access networks, hosting providers, content providers, and enterprises) less IPv6 readiness is seen. Ms. Fujii put emphasis on importance to continue providing holistic support to the entire Internet ecosystem to increase IPv6 adoption.

Ms. Fujii also emphasized importance of deployment of IPv6 in LTE networks as LTE services including voice, messaging and data are converging on IP based services. Given robust growth of mobile devices users accessing the Internet, IPv4 does not support today’s business needs. IPv6 is ready to be used in mobile networks, and it will save cost of network operators. Ms. Fuji sought attention among DSG participants to consider IPv6 issues in addition to spectrum issues while planning LTE deployment in each economy.

In the Q&A part of this presentation, delegate from Viet Nam suggested to consider adding IPv6 criteria in universal accessibility projects. Such criteria may help new networks be ready with IPv6 from beginning. It may contribute to achieve effective infrastructure investment, as there is no need to revisit the IPv6 transition issue if it is done properly at the first place.

3. CURRENT PROJECTS REPORT

3.1 APEC e-Government Research Center at Waseda University, JapanThe APEC e-Government Research Center at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)

was established in 2005. It is a self-funded project overseen by Prof Toshio Obi and is aimed to provide assistance in looking for solutions to the various challenges of e-Government implementation and to organize workshops and trainings for government employees of APEC economies.

Dr.Toshio Obi from Japan reported the progress of the project, including four Presentations at different conferences/Forums/Workshops, two Advisory Board Meetings, and three trainings.

3.2 ICT Applications for people with special needs-aging and disabilities, JapanThe project was launched in 2011 with the aim to provide the foundation for

APEC economies to enhance, to coordinate the focusing of resources to training

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competencies in the field of “ICT applications and elderly/disabled people”. This project was also to examine the level of awareness of trainers and Government staffs on the training of elderly and disabled people to use ICT. It is overseen by Prof. Dr. Toshio Obi of Waseda University and Mr. James Kang CIO IDA, Singapore.

Dr. Naoko IWASAKI, from Japan reported the progress of the project including one speech at opening session of APECTEL, two panel discussions and one visit to Waseda Robot Center.

3.3 APII Test Bed Project, KoreaMr. Hyongsoon Kim from Korea reported the progress of the project which is the

research and test environment between Korea and Japan. First of all, KOREN moved APII POP location to Seoul and upgraded as two 10G connection with procuring separate 10G link. Korea also proceed testing and verifying network technology, and especially, test 100G transmission technology and deploy global future internet experimental facilities. Korea introduced 4 kinds of research activities, including international SDN testbed deployment, web-based global open IPTV testbed, medical collaboration, and CPS based IoT data platform development. For discussion and sharing those activities, APII workshop was held in October 2012. There are some upcoming events, one of them is APAN meeting in August, and the other can be an APII workshop where collaboration research and experiences would be discussed and shared.

3.4 APII R&D Test Bed Network Project, Japan

Mr. Shuji YAMAGUCHI from Japan reported the progress of “APII R&D Testbed Network Project”. In the report, the NICT of Japan presented the overview of JGN-X project in which it focus on establishing the basic future internet technologies through various experiments over large scale testbed network and updates on network environment of JGN-X in which it changed Fukuoka-Pusan circuit to Tokyo-Seoul circuit as 10Gbps each and so on. Regarding recent and upcoming events, NICT reported and announced activities on workshops in APII and APAN and also informed economies of some successful demonstrations and experiments on the SDN/Open Flow technology in SC12, Snow Festival and Tohoku area (disaster-stricken area).

3.5 Demand Based Policy Approaches to Foster Universal Broadband Access, ChileChile was absence at TEL47.

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4. WORKSHOP OUTCOMES

4.1 Enhance competence in implementing ICT universal services programs, Viet NamThe work shop was held on 22 April, and moderated by Mr. Nguyen Quy Quyen

from Viet Nam, the Project Overseer. Before starting the Workshop, all participants shared their deep sympathy with US and China for their losses and damages after terrorism in Boston, US and earthquake in Sichuan, China.

Mr. Zhicheng Yu, the DSG Convener opened the Workshop, 70 participants and experts’ contributions from 9 APEC economies attended the workshop, including Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, USA, China and Vietnam. Dr. Pham Manh Lam from Viet Nam presented the results of the survey and gave numbers of recommendations related to enhancing effectiveness in implementing ICT Universal Service project/program.

The workshop raised out the challenges and difficulties in implementing ICT universal service programs/projects that economies have been facing. Speakers also recommended a number of solutions. Those results are the key objectives of the Project, and they will be included in the final report of the Project as well as the toolkits that will be circulated to all APEC economies at TEL 48.

4.2 Workshop on cloud computing based tele-health management platform, Chinese TaipeiThe workshop was held by Chinese Taipei on April 23. The workshop is part of

the project “Innovative value-added service of ICT: Cloud Computing Technology Applied to Tele-health Management Platform System” approved by APEC in TEL44. The DSG Convener Mr. Zhicheng Yu and the secretary of MCIT, Indonesia, Mr. Djoko Agung Harijadi attended and made opening remark. There were almost 30 participants attending the workshop.

The keynote speaker, Dr. Jenn-Hwan Tarng pinpointed crucial issues when the cloud technologies were merged with tele-health, such as medical liability, privacy & security protection of health records. In the round-table discussion session, three speakers were invited from different economies, separately explained the reasons why cloud technologies were needed to tele-health, the plan of developing e-health in Indonesia, and the cloud strategies from the perspective of government policy.

The workshop came out with several conclusions as list:

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1. Asserted that tele-healthcare embedded with cloud technologies is crucial for not only aging societies but remote areas.

2. Criteria and institutional arrangement are necessary for data privacy and security.

3. Figured out effective means to utilize health data.4. A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model is beneficial.5. A sustainable business model is a critical issue.6. Calling for member economies to share their experiences and understanding of

e-health.

4.3 Workshop on broadband network development for green growth, PRCThe workshop was held by China on April 23. The DSG Convener Mr. Zhicheng

Yu attended and made opening remark. There were almost 60 participants attending the workshop. In the workshop, expert from Tele-info made an interim report for the project. Experts from Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Chinese Taipei, Thailand and USA make presentations about broadband development and green growth.

Key conclusion from the workshop includes: 1. In current period, the main motivations for implementing Green Growth is the

reduction of energy cost and carbon emission. 2. ICT infrastructure itself need to be upgraded to a “green” based orientation, for

instance wireline system and base stations.3. Green ICT applications (smart energy, smart transportation, etc.) rely on high-

speed broadband infrastructure, the government and enterprises need to actively establishing a seamless broadband network environment.

4. To integrate broadband with traditional industry is a good way to reform and upgrade the economic structure.

5. There are bottlenecks at both supply and requirement sides, government & enterprises need to collaborate closely to integrate a entire “ green growth” chain.

5. NEW WORKSHOP/ NEW PROJECT PROPOSALS

5.1 Extension of APEC e-Government Research Center at Waseda University, JapanThis is an extension of the current project of APEC e-Government Research

Center at Waseda University. For this extension of the project, four leading institutions on e-Government in APEC region will cooperate with each other as the network of the

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Center.These institutions are Japan’s Waseda University Institute of e-Government, Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), Thailand’s E-government Agency (EGA) of MICT and Chinese Taipei’s Taiwan E-Governance Research Center (TEG). The heads of these four institutions will work together as co-project overseers to implement the joint program.

As a team conducting APECTEL project, the planned principal activities of the Center with sustainable continuity will be as follows:

1. Monitoring and assessing of “e-APEC”2. Organizing the a half day workshop on e-Government at the next APECTEL

meeting3. Maintaining data bank for e-Government readiness for member Economies4. Conducting short CIO training with a distance online system if applicableAfter the report, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Thailand expressed their support

to the project and the project was approved by DSG.

5.2 Extension of ICT Applications for the people with Special needs (Aging and Disabilities), Japan and SingaporeThis extension project is self-funded and co-sponsored by Thailand, Chinese

Taipei, and USA. The main goal of this project is to extend the APEC funded project (TEL 01/2011A) that has created an effective platform for knowledge exchange on innovation for assistive ICT applications for elderly and disabled people.

After the report, Chinese Taipei and Thailand expressed their support to the project and the project was approved by DSG.

5.3 Deployment of Multi-language Email Address Technology, ChinaThis is a one year project co-sponsored by Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong,

China, Malaysia, and Russia (more economics will be added after confirmation), proposed to seek APEC Funding for USD 50,000.

The topic is Deployment of Multi-Language Email Address Technology with an aim to share the advanced technology and promote the wide deployment of this technology in APEC region.

The outputs will include a white paper and a proposal to call for the governments and organizations of APEC region to support this advanced technology. China will invite any interested economy to participate in the activities such as a workshop during the APEC TEL 48 and an international forum to be held in Beijing, China in May 2014.

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After the report, Korea, Russia, HK, Brunei, Chinese Taipei, and Internet Society expressed support to the project and the project was approved by DSG.

5.4 Interoperable ICT: semantic, linguistic and other aspects, RussiaThe purposes of this self-funded project include:1. To study APEC economies' experience in the field of interoperable ICT on:

Developing of the interoperable ICT; Possible approaches to interaction of automated systems for economic integration of the APEC region; Linguistic, semantic and other aspects of interoperability, including the trusted cross-border exchange of electronic documents; Finding the solutions to the problems of incompatibility of existing standards, standard classifications, reference books (national, international, industry, etc.) used in internet economy and electronic transactions;

2. To establish an APEC-wide cooperation to share the best practices of APEC economies in provision of ICT interoperability;

The main project outputs are: 1. APEC Workshop on Interoperable ICT -- Sep. 20132. Report publication —Dec. 2013China and Brunei expressed their support to this project. US requested more time

to review the project with experts in Washington, and noted questions which were discussed in more detail directly with the Russian project proponent. Internet Society commented that the proposal required more information, specific to the technical application and how it would be used to promote DSG's goals. Internet Society invites the opportunity to collaborate with the Russian delegation on this proposal. It was accepted by Russia. As there was no consensus by the end of DSG meeting, this project will go to intercessional approval procedure.

5.5 Disaster Management and ICT for APEC Region, Japan

This project is self-funded, from April 2013 to October 2013. Disaster management for the APEC economies is an important topic, and the topics related to disaster management have been actively discussed in many APEC meetings. In this respect, it is useful to summarize the discussion so far related to disaster management and to show how ICT can be utilized towards future efforts to mitigate the damage caused by disasters in the APEC region. The purpose of this project is to improve the robustness of the ICT itself and to promote disaster management by utilizing ICT. The activity of the project is to create a report and to hold a symposium at TEL48 (a half day) for showing

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effectiveness of ICT in disaster management. After the report, China expressed support to the project and the project was approved by DSG.

5.6 Application procedure for new projects, APEC Secretariat

In order to make delegate understand the APEC project applying procedure better, the convener invited Mr. Mikiharu SHIMIZU, the programme director of APEC Secretariat to give a introduction and explanation on project application procedure.

6. REVIEW/UPDATE OF DSG PROJECTS MATRIX AND OTHER BUSINESS

Convener asked member economies to review DSG projects matrix uploaded on the APEC TEL 47 website, any correction or addition will be appreciated. The matrix can be a useful reference to new DSG project proposals.

Convener proposed to make a new topic for Information exchange session, “IPv6 and wireless Broadband” for the DSG meeting in TEL48. It was supported by participants.

7. REVIEW AND DISCUSSION ON “INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT REPORT” AND “STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN”

With TEL chair's instruction, both the “Independent assessment report” and “Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015” were fully reviewed and discussed.

For the “Independent assessment report”, Vietnam expressed their support to the recommendation 7: “Remote participation”, and also expressed the concern on budget issue for the host country.

For the “Strategic Action Plan”, there is no commend from DSG meeting.

8. WORKSHOP AT TEL48The DSG meeting has endorsed three workshops to be held at TEL48.1. Workshop on e-Government, a half day, Japan.2. Workshop on Disaster Management and ICT for APEC Region, a half day, Japan. 3. Workshop on Deployment of Multi-language Email Address Technology, a

half day, China.

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There is another workshop still in the approval procedure, which is 4. Workshop on Interoperable ICT, one day, Russia.

9. CLOSING

Convener thanked all participants for their cooperation and contributions. This made DSG meeting fruitful and successful and thanked Indonesia again for hosting this DSG meeting.

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APEC TEL 47 Liberalization Steering Group (LSG) ReportApril 25 – 26, 2013, Bali, Indonesia

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The LSG meeting was held in the afternoon of April 26 and the morning of April 26. The position of LSG Convenor is still vacant. Ms. Evelyn GOH as the LSG Deputy Convenor has moved to another job so she could not attend the APEC TEL 47 and onward. Therefore, The meeting was convened by Deputy Convenor, Mr. Nguyen Quy Quyen, from Viet Nam.

LSG Session I

1. Opening

The Deputy Convenor welcomed and thanked the delegates for attending the meeting. He also expressed their gratitude and congratulations to Viet Nam, host economy of APEC TEL 45, for the excellent organization and warm hospitality provided.

The Convenor shared with the meeting a brief overview of the active discussions at the various events held back-to-back with APEC TEL 47 such as the Workshop on Transparency of Internet BB access speed moderated by Singapore, Regulatory Roundtable on the OTT applications moderated by Indonesia and Industrial Roundtable on the Mobile Payment moderated by INTUG. He also encouraged all participants to participate actively in the LSG Meeting.

The LSG draft agenda was reviewed and adopted by all economies.

2. Overview of the TEL46 LSG Report

The LSG Deputy Convenor, Ms. Evelyn Goh from Singapore who chaired the LSG meeting as Acting Convenor requested for the endorsement of one project seeking APEC funding, as follows:

Workshop on Classification of ICT Services in the Digital Economy, proposed by Viet Nam (APEC fund seeking project). This project proposal was also endorsed by TEL at TEL45, and obtained in-principle approval but could not get the final approval by BMC in session 2 due to the late submission of QAF documents. So the project proposal was re-submitted as a new proposal at TEL46.

The Deputy Convenor also requested for holding the following workshops/seminars at TEL47:

½-day Workshop on Transparency of Internet Broadband Access Speeds (Singapore)

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1 and ½-day Workshop on Classification of ICT Services in the Digital Economy (Viet Nam)

½-day Industry Roundtable (Indonesia and INTUG)

½-day Regulatory Roundtable (Indonesia)

The Chair of MRA Task Force (MRATF), Mr. Peter Chau from Canada requested for two half-day MRATF sessions and two half-day MRATF drafting sessions to be organized at TEL47.

3. Workshop Outcomes and Project Updates

3.1. Workshop on Transparency of Internet Broadband Access Speeds (Singapore) Mr. Jason TEO from Singapore informed the meeting that the Workshop on Transparency of Internet Broadband Access Speeds was successfully held in the morning of Wednesday, 24 April 2013. There were a total of eight speakers from six economies (Hong Kong, China; Republic of Korea; Malaysia; Chinese Taipei; United States of America and Singapore) and the INTUG. The workshop was well attended by more than 30 delegates.  The objective of the workshop was to promote clear information on the internet broadband access speeds. The workshop covered the consumers’ perspective on their broadband performance and the transparency measures implemented to enable consumers make informed choices on which broadband plans they could subscribe. This is in line with the APEC TEL Strategic Action Plan 2015 to promote transparency and increase consumer awareness of the service prices in the market. Participants at the workshop also discussed the benefits of setting a minimum Quality of Service (QoS) for broadband internet access speeds and the possible collaboration with other organizations to hold an industry roundtable.  Key findings from the survey indicated that most regulators have adopted either a mandatory or voluntary approach for ISPs to disclose their typical broadband internet access speeds. Typical speeds & measurement methods were predominantly published on ISPs’ website and there is generally no mandate for ISPs to provide clear explanation to end-users at points-of-sale. Mr. Jason TEO further shared with the meeting that the report of the workshop would be prepared intersessionally and submitted at the next TEL meeting. He welcomed more member economies to participate in the survey on their domestic transparency measures to make it a comprehensive reference for economies.  Mr. Jason TEO took the opportunity to once again expressed Singapore’s appreciation to the speakers, organizer, co-sponsors and participants of the workshop.

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3.2. Regulatory Roundtable (Indonesia)

The Regulatory Roundtable was held in the morning of 23rd July, 2013 and was chaired by Mrs. Koesmarihati, advisor to the Center of International Affairs, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Republic of Indonesia. The theme of the roundtable was “OTT (Over-the –Top) applications: regulatory challenges; how APEC regulators handle OTT to un-harmed the Broadband initiatives. The Regulatory Roundtable was attended by about 50 participants, mainly from government, regulatory bodies and industries from the following economies, Indonesia, Japan, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia, Thailand, USA, Viet Nam, and Brunei Darussalam including internet society.

The LSG Convenor, Mr Nguyen Quy QUYEN, from Viet Nam, welcomed the participants and gave an overview to the Regulatory Roundtable which noted the impact and the emergent of Over the Top applications to National Broadband Plan. On behalf of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, the Director of Telecommunications, Mr. Ismail opened the Regulatory Roundtable.

Regulatory Roundtable was divided by 3 Sessions as follows:

Session 1. With theme was “Progress of National Broadband Plan (NBP) Development in APEC Region: Issues address on broadband initiatives, broadband ecosystems, and lessons learned”. Then, five papers were presented by speakers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Chinese Taipei.

Mr. HaryuKresna Widhiputranto, Assistant to Telecommunication Services Affairs, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Republic of Indonesia, outlined the Indonesian Broadband Initiatives, policy deployment on the national connectivity, and its challenges not only the development of the network but also the ecosystem. The key points are broadband access should be in the agenda of every economy and the regulators can play significant role in building ecosystem between operators and content developers.

Mr. Jason Ho from National Communication Commissions (NCC), Chinese Taipei, presented the progress on National Broadband Plan Development in Chinese Taipei. He outlined that the National Info-Com Development Plan (NIDP) has goals to create advanced broadband service, construct a ubiquitous network society network, and enhanced national competitiveness. For achieving those goals, it needs the effective bridge for the digital divide between remote and urban areas and meet the rapid growth of the ICT service demand, the government should regularly review the broadband access speed.

Ms. Nur Sulyna Abdullah, Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysia presented the journey of Broadband policy and implementation in Malaysia. The broadband development can increase economic growth, even though it through a long journey and not easy with many obstacles. Ms. Sulyna also

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shown up a short video clip but it is so meaningful - “everything possible with broadband” which talk about a woman without husband who was so hard living with only 5000RM a month. After she knew internet and her daughter made website to promote their seaweed, now she earn 20.000 RM per month and the seaweed not only sell in Malaysia but also goes abroad to Japan and China. It is really meaningful!

Mr. Sinya Tahata, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan presented about the fixed broadband progress, internet penetration and the traffic generated and Japan policy on Net-Neutrality. The principle of Net-Neutrality is that all traffic on the internet should be treated equally, regardless of content, site or platform.

Session 2. With the theme was “Issues to be addressed: What is OTT, How OTT operates, experiences of Telco to counter OTT. How OTT impact on Regulations”. There were 2 papers presented by speakers from Indonesia and USA.

Mr. Sigit Puspito Wigati, Commissioner at Indonesian Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, Indonesia presented paper about OTT from the regulator’s perspective. He described why OTT become an important issue to discuss, mainly due to the ability for Telecommunication Network Operators in especially developing economy to roll out the broadband, due to decreasing its revenue.

Mr. Jake E. Jennings, Executive Director, International External and Regulatory Affairs, AT&T, USA addressed that in the global world the broadband ecosystem is changing and begins to be a symbiotic system, between one other which broadband and contentrely in each other. He also outlined that Net-Neutrality is the battle of the world the Telco versus OTT. Now, in the recent day, OTT becomes opportunity for all providers. He suggested that Telco Network Operator should prepare to face the new broadband ecosystem challenges.

A lively discussion regarding many issues in OTT and pro-contra whether the OTT should be regulated or not occurred in the meeting.

Sesssion 3: Roundtables. Speed exchange was conducted with 2 topics, issues talked about in the Roundtables.

Roundtable 1 discussed on the OTT, and chaired by Mr Nonot Harsono – Indonesian Regulatory Authority Indonesia. Matters discussed including:

1. Whether OTT is regulated in their economy.

2. OTT can not be stopped, telecommunications network and OTT will co-exist.

3. No economy has regulated the OTT yet

4. Some economies stated will not and

5. Some economies stated , their industry feel burden of the present Global OTT, and it should be regulated, but also is still observing and studying.

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Roundtable 2 discussed on the Community Development , and chaired by Ms. Nur Sulyna Abdullah – Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). Matters discussed including:

1. How to give understanding to community to use the facilities (Internet kiosk) for the benefit of their business, their personal use and their welfare, and then they will require personal Internet.

2. Transformation of the people, giving them training the skill to use internet and to get the benefit of the internet, for their business and personal use. To develop blog or web to promote their business or the area.

3. To develop application to fill the need of the people in the remote area.

In closing, the Deputy LSG Convenor, Mr. Nguyen Quy Quyen, thank the host economy and all participants for their active participation and the overall success of the event.

3.3. Industry Roundtable (INTUG)

The Industry Roundtable held on April 23rd, 2013 for discussing about mobile payment (m-payment). The Industry Roundtable was chaired by Heru Sutadi from Ministry of Commmunication and IT, Indonsia.

First presentation presented by Mr. Muhamad Jumadi from INTUG. He stated that m-payment will be very important toward cash less society and there is some concern in the implementation of m-payment from consumer perspective: security, roaming issue and standardization.

Dr. Riant Nugroho as second speaker from Indonesian Telecommunication Regulatory Authority mentioned about the next challenges in Indonesian regulatory regarding digital money, especially m-payment. This includes policy roadmap and collaboration policy among telecommunications sector and banking sector.

Mr. Hirano form Yahoo Japan Corporation talked about the experience Yahoo! Japan to provide m-payment that consists of two kinds of payment: Yahoo! Wallet and Kantan Kessai (Easy Payment) for product auction in Yahoo!

Mr. Setyabudi from Indonesian Telecommunication Users Group stressed on how important real-time transaction that can be accessed from anywhere, reliable and trusted services, affordable charging, prudent and adaptive regulation and quality of services as well.

Mr. Herlambang from Telkomsel mentioned about the experiences and challenges of m-payment implementation in Indonesia. Telkomsel is the largest mobile cellular operator in Indonesia. For Telkomsel, the have evolution toward cashless society: modernize the transportation, change people habit and modernize the country.

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After all, the Roundtable continued with questions and answers, and share the m-payment from others economic economies. After Q&A, INTUG conclude the discussion results and the roundtable discussion are closed by LSG Deputy Convenor.

4. MRA Task Force Meeting Report

The MRA Task Force (MRA TF) meetings were chaired by Mr. Saneh Saiwang from Thailand who is currently Vice-Chair of the Task Force since the Chairman, Mr. Peter Chau from Canada, could not attend the meeting.

The MRA TF met over three sessions over one and half days at TEL 47 with 37 delegates from 12 economies, and had discussed 9 contributions. The morning session on April 22 (Day one) and afternoon session on April 23 (Day two) were dedicated to the formal agenda items while the afternoon session of Day one was dedicated to the discussion on market surveillance.

Key meeting outcomes were:

- Updated information on MRA implementation and/or regulatory changes in 8 member economies.

- Research projects on measuring the economic benefits of MRA. Chinese Taipei and Korea had indicated that they are conducting research projects (separately) to quantify of economic benefits of participating in MRA, focusing on manufacturers and other stakeholders and coming up with common quantification model to be used as reference model for every APEC economies. Preliminary results from research projects will be available and further discussed at next Task Force meeting.

- Best practices on market surveillance scheme. The difficulties of normal process to conduct market surveillance had been acknowledged, and alternative approach for market surveillance process have been discussed. The meeting agreed to continue the discussion the Market Surveillance’s Best Practice Guideline and relate issues. The Guideline would be based on APEC TEL 43 MRATF’s proposed outline of market surveillance guidelines with modifications to incorporate alternative ideas and approaches.

The meeting also discussed the future of the Task Force once the Chair, Mr. Peter Chau from Canada, is retired and no alternative Vice-Chair is nominated. Several possibilities were identified. Those include:

- The works can be carried on elsewhere, such as LSG.

- Adopt a rotational basis for the chairmanship.

- The Task Force meets on irregular basis or takes on some other forms of groups, such as expert group.

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- Shortened cycle for chairmanship

The meeting noted that there are advantages and disadvantages associated with those possibilities. The meeting did not come to a conclusion on this topic and still opened for more discussion at next TF.The Chair was then requested to bring forward all comments for the attention of LSG and later to the Plenary.

5. Review of TEL Assessment Report and TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015

LSG meeting reviewed the Independent Assessment Report of TEL Working Group and the TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015 and had no further comments.

6. LSG Contributions to TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015

Subject to be discussed: OTT Applications and Services. APEC Economies will share the current status of the Over The Top applications and services in their economy including current status, development trends, opportunities as well as difficulties and challenges that Government, consumers and telecommunications network or services suppliers are facing. This is in line with the TEL Strategic Action Plan of promoting effective policy and regulatory frameworks that facilitate free and open trade arrangements.

6.1.Legal Frameworks regarding open network (Japan)

Japan shared with the meeting the legal frameworks on the open network. Carriers possessing network facilities in Japan must comply with any request from other telecommunications carriers for interconnection of telecommunications facilities, except for the cases below:

- If it may incur a risk to the smooth provision of telecommunications services; or

- If it may unfairly jeopardize the interests of the telecommunications carrier possessing the network facilities, etc.

Japan also talked about the panel of network neutrality in 2007 with aim to seek views from wide range of stakeholders by establishing new sound and sustainable competition principles.

6.2.OTT Applications and Services in Viet Nam (Viet Nam)

Viet Nam shared with the LSG meeting on the development and application of OTT services and applications in Viet Nam. The Content Providers and Mobile Network Operators in Vietnam are aware that the price of smart phones and 3G Packages being low is a "paradise" for OTT applications developing. It may say that the development of 3G and smartphone is the main reason for booming OTT applications and services in the world. And the explosion of OTT applications such as messaging, free calls over internet is being a worldwide trend and unstoppable.

The advantages and disadvantages of OTT services and applications were raised out. Advantages are such as speed the message very fast, capable of sending SMS with attachments, large number of characters and more advantages than

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conventional SMS and MMS, especially all services like the conventional services have been provided free of charge. However, the OTT services are also disadvantages such as poor quality than traditional call, the quality of service is not be ensured by Content Provider. To be able to send message or to use free call, end users must use the same software, while today there are many OTT softwares being in operation. OTT applications can only be used on the smart phone... However, these disadvantages can be completely resolved by development of software in the near future.

In fact, the explosion of OTT applications has caused major risks to the cellular network providers when current revenues mainly based on basic telecommunications services such as SMS and Voice traffic. Especially when the OTT services and application to be improved with the quality of services being proximity with traditional mobile services will make great damage to the mobile operators due to investment in the infrastructure without revenues from conventional and basic services.

OTT applications are just like the "children" of a couple of telecommunications and digital content. Due to 3G tariffs in Viet Nam is very cheap, so when developing OTT services, mobile operators have to face many difficulties in terms of revenue. Rather than being a "victim", mobile operators should actively participate and cooperate closely with content providers to facilitate the market growing through new packages, from which to provide value-added services and to share the created revenues.

LSG session Ⅱ

7. `Information Exchange

Subject to be exchanged: Co-location . APEC Economies will sharing their view points for the Co-location model in telecommunications sector in order to promote the regional integration such as common understanding about the co-location, differences between co-location and sharing infrastructure, policies and regulations on the co-location. Through the discussions and information sharing, LSG also seeks to reaffirm the importance of the Bogor Goals to achieve free and open trade and investment in the APEC region.

7.1.Outline of the rules for the co-location in Japan (Japan)

As the definition of collocation in Japan, Co-location means installing other carriers’ telecommunication facilities (transmission equipment, switches, cables, etc.), for the purpose of interconnection with the Designated Type 1 Telecommunication Facilities of NTT East/West, in buildings, etc. (including ducts, tunnels, utility poles) that NTT East/West use for communications.

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The following articles regarding co-location are established in the Agreement Concerning Interconnection of NTT East/West (pursuant to Regulations for the Enforcement of the Telecommunications Business Act (Ministerial Ordinance of MPT No. 25 of 1985) Article 23-4 (2) ii)):

(1) Disclosure of information concerning co-location resources (space, electric power capacities and MDF terminals) necessary for interconnection.

(2) Procedures for requesting and obtaining a response about the availability of and conditions for co-location.

(3) Procedures for interconnecting carriers to conduct their own installation or maintenance and to enter into communications buildings.

(4) Standard period of time for process (from the day of request to the day of response or construction, etc.)

(5) The amount of money that other carriers pay to the NTT East/West for installation or maintenance of co-location facilities.

7.2. Telecommunication Infrastructure Sharing (Singapore)

Critical Support Infrastructure (CSI) in Singapore is defined as infrastructure for providing telecommunication services; that cannot be efficiently replicated, nor obtained from a 3rd party through commercial transaction; Licensee has sufficient capacity to share with other licensees and has no legitimate justification for refusing to share infrastructure; and failure to share infrastructure would unreasonably restrict competition. Licensees required sharing CSI infrastructure at cost-based prices.

For other Infrastructure sharing, the Urban Re-development Authority (URA) requires new towers (or monopoles) erected by mobile licensees to be made available for shared use to reduce the no. of towers for aesthetic reason and to optimise land use. Certain building owners require mobile licensees to jointly install and operate common cabling and antennas for in-building mobile coverage.

IDA does not require the developers or owners to set aside rooftop space for mobile licensees. IDA leaves it to the mobile licensees to commercially negotiate the rental & usage.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) also conducts a monthly meeting with ALL utility providers to co-ordinate the schedule of road works. Licensees can discuss & make plans to lay their underground pipes with other utility providers, so that they can lower their cost by avoiding digging the roads several times.

Common Space and facilities in buildings for sharing:

- Telephone wires with RJ11 outlets, including coaxial cables with TV outlets, structured cabling with RJ45 outlets; and an empty conduit for fiber-optic cables.

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- Different telecom services may co-exist on the same cables, provided that they do not interfere with each other.

- No requirement for commercial buildings to pre-lay internal telecom wiring, as their needs are different depending on tenants

7.3. Policies and regulations on the co-location in Viet Nam (Viet Nam)

Viet Nam shared with the meeting synopsis of the co-location. Co-location is understood as the common use infrastructure active and passive infrastructure. In some free trade agreement, the Co-location is interpreted as the access to and control over space in order to install, maintain, or repair equipment, at premises owned or controlled and used by facility-based operator to provide telecommunications services. Currently, there are physical and virtual co-location models. In Viet Nam, Co-location is understood as the sharing telecommunications infrastructure including sharing active and passive infrastructures.

As provision in the Telecommunications Law of Viet Nam at the Article 45, sharing telecommunications infrastructure means to share in using a part of a telecom network, facility or equipment among telecommunications enterprises with the aim of assuring effective, convenient and quick network establishment and provision of telecommunication services, or assuring the requirements and conditions related to the landscape, environment and urban planning.

A sharing of telecommunications infrastructure is carried out by means of a contract on the basis of assuring the legal rights and interests of the telecommunication enterprises.

The Viet Nam Telecommunications Authority will make decisions concerning the sharing of telecommunication infrastructure in the following instances:

a) Joint use of essential means, in the event that the telecom enterprises fail to reach an agreement;

b) Joint use of passive telecom technical infrastructure in order to assure the requirements concerning landscape, environment and urban zoning; and

c) Joint use of telecom infrastructure in order to service public utility telecom activities.

The Ministry of Information and Communications sets forth detailed regulations concerning the sharing of telecommunication infrastructure.

8. New Project Proposals

There was one APEC funded project proposal from Indonesia and two self-funded project proposals from Malaysia and Indonesia that were submitted for LSG’s consideration:

8.1 Proposal on APEC Workshop on ‘Promoting the Development of ICT Revolution to

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Assist the Economic Growth of Small Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and the Small Medium Micro Enterprise (SMMEs)’ by Malaysia. This project is designed to achieve the following key objectives:

With the help of ICT, SMEs are able to gain much greater market access and enables them to create and deliver its products and services nationally and globally;

Collaborate with Google – how to achieve better online target audience;

Share and discuss common issues faced, and Work together with APEC SME WG for consisting with the common goals;

Taking this into account and realizing the benefits ICT can bring, it is the roles of the regulators and policy makers to ensure that the SMEs in their respective economies are given then necessary exposure to prepare and foster these SMEs to shift to a digital economy;

Timeline of project is expected from April 2013 to November 2013. One or two (1/2) day workshop is proposed to be held back-to-back with the APEC TEL 48 meeting.

For the purpose of these objectives, project activities would include one or two day workshop with especially targets to Regulators and Policy Makers. It is aimed to share with the policy makers on ways to educate the SMEs in their respective economies on the importance of ICT, i.e. (accessibility) in order for them to expand and become a part of a global competitive market.

There were some question on the project regarding to the purpose of the project. Representative of Malaysia clarified the purpose as mentioned above.

The project received support from Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand as co-sponsors and would be submitted to Plenary II for endorsement.

8.2 Proposal for "Workshop on the Quality of Services for Regulators" by Indonesia. This project is designed to achieve the following key objectives:

To promote clear information on how to solve those problems to promote better consumer protection in a liberalized industry. First problem is the reliance on network statistics, it is difficult to measure QoS standards, in particular for packet switched services. Second problem, the QoS monitoring system relies on self-reporting by service providers. There are the problems associated with data collection in relation with auditing and accountability. Even with uniform parameters and indicators, service providers may vary in the way they collect and collate the data; and the third problem, the QoS regulations have been geared more heavily toward penalties rather than incentives. While regulators set access providers minimum targets, they do not give them incentives to exceed those targets.

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A 1/2-day capacity building workshop to be held back-to-back with APEC TEL 48.

The project received further support from three economies, including Japan, Viet Nam, Thailand and Russia as co-sponsors and was subsequently endorsed by LSG. The project would be submitted to Plenary II for endorsement.

8.3 APEC New Concept Note seeking APEC Support Fund from Indonesia: Workshop on Over- the- Top (OTT) services.

Proposal for "Workshop on Over- the- Top (OTT) services" by Indonesia seeking APEC support fund. This New Concept Note is designed to achieve the following key objectives:

To share, through a workshop, useful information and experience on the implementation of OTT through keynote speeches and presentations by representatives of different implementers OTT from member economies of APEC;

To provide the best practices for more implementers and users to OTT, especially for developing member economies;

To propose an initiative for the governments in APEC region to develop policies in support of the deployment of OTT; and

A half day capacity building workshop proposed to be held back-to-back with APEC TEL 49.

The new proposal from Indonesia with amount of USD 60,000 is seeking the APEC Support Fund of USD 40,000.

The New Concept Note was reviewed and discussed in the Meeting. There were some comments and queries on the purpose of the project and funding, criteria of experts/speakers and economies to be invited and kind of guidelines that project intend to issue... Following discussion on the project, Indonesia revised as comments from economies and uploaded the newest version on the APEC TEL Website at the link: www.apectel47.info.

As agreed by meeting, before the 5pm of April 26, 2013 (Bali time), there is no any comment and objection, and with support as co-sponsor from Viet Nam and Japan, this New Concept Note was endorsed by LSG, and would be submitted to Plenary II for ranking.

9. Next Meeting and Future Work

The Deputy Convenor informed that the next Regulatory Roundtable and Industry roundtable would be held at TEL 48 in United States of America around September 2013. The theme of the Roundtables would be decided by the host economy and circulated to the economies.

10. Closing Remarks from the LSG Deputy Convenor

The Deputy Convenor summarized the results obtained from the LSG Meeting, and thanked all delegates for their kind cooperation and active participation. He also again thanked the host economy, Indonesia.

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The Deputy Convenor took this opportunity to give all best wishes to Ms. Evelyn as the Deputy Convenor of LSG, and Acting Convenor of LSG in the TEL46 since she has changed her work and will not go along with APEC onward.

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APEC TEL 47 MRA Task Force Meeting ReportBali, Indonesia, 22-23 April 2013

1 Welcome and Introduction

1.1 The MRA Task Force (MRATF) met over three sessions at TEL 47. The morning session of April 22 (Day one) and afternoon session of April 23 (Day two) were dedicated to the formal agenda items while the afternoon session of Day one was dedicated to the discussion on market surveillance.

1.2 The Meeting was attended by 37 delegates from 12 economies – Brunei Darussalam, P.R. China, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, USA and Vietnam. Representatives from APEC Secretariat and APLAC are also in attendance. The full list of delegates is attached as in Attachment 1.

1.3 The Meeting was chaired by Mr. Saneh Saiwang from Thailand who is currently Vice-Chair of the Task Force since the Chair, Mr. Peter Chau from Canada, could not attend the meeting.

1.4 The Acting Chair welcomed all delegates to the meeting. As there were new members to this meeting, the Acting Chair invited all members to introduce themselves.

1.5 There were 9 contributions submitted and discussed at the meeting (see the list in Attachment 2). All documents were uploaded to the APEC TEL 47 website (www.apectel47.info). The Acting Chair assigned the contributions to the appropriate agenda items.

1.6 The meeting adopted the draft agenda for the APEC TEL 47 MRA Task Force Meeting as presented by the Acting Chair with no further amendment. (See Attachment 3)

2 Economies’ Update

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2.1 Eight economies (Canada, Chinese Taipei, P.R. China, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Thailand, USA and Vietnam) gave voluntary updates on their progress of implementation and/or recent regulatory changes. The updates provided by economies were given in Attachment 4.

2.2 In addition, three economies, namely Japan, Korea and Indonesia gave comprehensive presentation with regard to the overview of certification system of telecommunication equipment in their respective countries. The meeting appreciated the information sharing and their responses to questions put forth in the meeting.

3 Case Studies on the use of MRA on Conformity Assessment by industry

3.1 There was no case study on the use of MRA-CA by industry at this meeting. However, there are two contributions on agenda item 4.2 (Project F) which are closely related to this agenda item and outcomes from those surveys and activities should be communicated to industry. More discussions may be required in the next TF meeting.

4 Task Force Projects

4.1 Project E – MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements (MRA-ETR)

Chinese Taipei made a verbal report to inform the meeting on the issue of its preparation for implementation of MRA-ETR in its own economy. In essence, Chinese Taipei is ready to implement MRA-ETR with other economies within its current laws and regulations.

The meeting took note of the report and commended Chinese Taipei on its readiness, and encouraged other economies to start looking into their internal rules and regulations for implementation preparation. The Acting Chair reminded the meeting that TELMIN9 had endorsed Guideline for MRA-ETR Implementation which each economy can utilize that Guideline to their utmost benefit.

4.2 Project F - Stock-take of MRA implementation and benefits

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In TEL 46, there was in-length discussion on how to proceed on quantifying economic benefits of MRA, and it was agreed to gather all information from all stakeholders and share such information. The Chair had encouraged economies to share their experiences of MRA implementation and information of MRA benefit in terms of financial data.

As a consequence, there were three contributions submitted for this meeting. They were:

1) MRA Benefits Survey to manufacturers: Status update - Chinese Taipei

2) The Effect and Benefit of MRA to manufacturers – Samsung, Republic of Korea

3) Measuring the economic effects of MRA – Republic of Korea

Chinese Taipei mentioned in its contribution about the Project of Surveying MRA Benefits in Chinese Taipei organized by Taiwan Accreditation Foundation during May to November 2013 under the supervision of Professor Chun-chieh Wang, Dept. of Politic Economy, National Sun Yat-sen University. The Project had identified and narrowed down into three main avenues to proceed: who shall be surveyed (due to practicality, only manufacturers/suppliers and CABs are identified), what products (scope of 5 products - mobile phone, set-top box, GPS, networking equipment, Notebook(Tablet), and how it should be carried out (on-site visit and off-site questionnaire with appropriate quantification model. The preliminary outcomes should be available and shared with the TF at its next meeting.

Samsung HQ made a presentation on the effect and benefit of participating in MRA-CA for manufacturer, from the viewpoint of Samsung. Korea had entered into Phase I MRA with 4 economies for which the total of 47 test labs in Korea were recognized (one of which being Samsung CS & E Centre). In the case of Samsung, participating in MRA-CA actually had shortened delivery time and saved testing fees. Reduced time is from 3 weeks to 1 week for each certification, and Samsung can make marketing plan in time because of a shorter lead time. Testing fees had been reduced since no logistic cost was incurred.

Prof. Yong-Kyu Lee from Chung-Ang University, Korea made a presentation on Measuring the Economic Effects of MRA. The presentation had pointed out that the total economic effects of MRA to an economy should be measured collectively after calculating effects of MRA with economies respectively, and several factors should be considered to assess the effects. These include characteristics of conformity assessment system of partner economy, industry practices of acquiring test report and certification of partner economy, trade volumes, and phase and scope of MRA. When measuring economic effects, relevant parties or stakeholders should be taken into considerations. However, in reality, the subject might be limited to only manufacturers. With MRA, the sales of products would increase at early

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stage, due to faster penetration to foreign market. Thus, short-life-cycle smart phones will be more influenced by MRA than long-life-cycle products such as wireline phones. It is expected that overall, to any economies that participate in MRA, the benefits gained from MRA is expected to outweigh the costs. And it is stressed that this is appropriate time to begin a discussion at the APEC level about building a grand model that could be utilized to individual MRA.

Those contributions were well-received and discussed in length. In expression his appreciation for the works being carried out in various economies on the issue of economic benefit of the MRA, the Acting Chair had made several queries on how the TF could proceed on this issue and how the importers are incorporated into the question. Prof. Lee had indicated his opinion that, in the case of importers, one of the benefits would be sales uplift and lower transaction cost and thus may be subsumed under manufacturers’ benefits. However, more details would be available once the interview with the industry was completed. Indonesia raised the importance of importers as it is mainly one of the importing economies, and stressed that they should be part of the research project.

Based on the discussion, it was realized that the model to be used would rely on bi-lateral consideration and, as such, could not come up with a single quantification on MRA benefit to APEC as a whole. The Vice Chair suggested that, as the works are going on, it would be more appropriate to continue the discussion until the results from two research works are made available. It is foreseen that when the results from those works are available and shared for information purpose, all member economies are all beneficial and can adopt or adapt such common quantification model and research to suit their own environment.

5 Training

There was no need for training identified at this meeting.

6 Review of projects for TEL approval

No project is identified. If such need for project arises, all necessary information can be provided by the chair or via the TEL Secretariat.

7 Update on the Development of Regional MRAs

7.1 The ASEAN Telecommunication Regulators’ Council MRA (ATRC MRA)

As requested by the Chair at last TEL, Thailand made an overview presentation on ATRC works with regard to MRAs, their implementations

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and related work plans (in Attachment X). To date, ATRC has 2 MRAs, namely MRA on Telecommunication Equipment (MRA-TE) and MRA on Standard Equivalence (MRA-SE). Until now, four countries have entered into bi-lateral MRA-TE agreements. This includes Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Two laboratories are recognized, one from Malaysia (Sirim) and another one from Singapore (Spring). Currently, ATRC’s MRA related work plan is aiming towards the implementation of ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015 initiative, which is to enhance implementation of mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs) by ensuring that all technical standards are in the ASEAN working language (English) and adopting common standards to reduce time-to-market for ICT products.

Indonesia further informed the meeting on the development of ATRC Project on enhancing MRA. The project was proposed to study pros & cons for having MRA agreements, conduct a survey to assess situations in each of ASEAN members and provide recommendations on ways and how to proceed.

The Acting Chair invited Indonesia to update the meeting on a regular basis of the outcomes of the project. Information should be shared under agenda item Project F - Stock-take of MRA implementation and benefits.

8 Web based information management

The MRA web page information is available at www.apec.org facilitating the user to go to find up-to-date regulations and contact information for multiple economies at one web location for efficient implementation and operation of the MRA. As a standing agenda item, members were invited to check whether their MRA web pages can be accessed via the APEC TEL MRA webpage at www.apec.org and, if found necessary, provide the correct URL linkages to their websites to the Chair.

Thailand informed the meeting that there is incorrect information in the web page in relation to the link to its web site, and had provided the corrected link to the Acting Chair to pass it on the APEC Secretariat for further action.

9. Market Surveillance

Information & Communication Certification Conference of Japan (ICCJ) presented a contribution titled “Eco Market Surveillance Proposal”. In that contribution, ICCJ informed the meeting about the results from MIC MRA International workshop held in February 2013 on several key issues, one of which being market surveillance action (Conformity Assessment Body Opinion on Market Surveillance Actions by FCC & MIC). Problems identified

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were purchase of equipment samples (expensive, tough to find, and logistics) and testing (impossible to test, need special tools or software). The presentation proposed new idea to market surveillance process by requesting only required documents to CAB (requirement of certification document) and to applicants (requirements of compliance inspection record) without re-testing.

The meeting took note of the presentation. The difficulties of normal process to conduct market surveillance had been acknowledged, and alternative approach for market surveillance process have been discussed.

In addition, the Acting Chair had provided introductory information on the previous contribution by Canada to TEL43 on Proposed Outline for Market Surveillance Guidelines. He stressed that market surveillance was very important and was a part of regulatory scheme to ensure equipment compliance. Although various economies had different market surveillance schemes to suit their own environment, suitable options or alternatives of best practices in market surveillance could be identified. The new proposal from ICCJ is one of them. APEC economies should be benefited from having a set of best practices offered to be used and incorporated, where applicable, to enhance their own market surveillance schemes.

The meeting agreed to continue the discussion and reviewed the Market Surveillance’s Best Practice Guideline. The discussion will be contribution driven thus all economies are encouraged to submit contributions on this topic.

10. New Topics and Future Work

10.1 Due to the fact that Mr Peter Chau, the Chairman, will vacate his chairmanship after TEL48 and Mr. Saneh Saiwong from Thailand had announced earlier that he could not continue his role as the Vice-Chair due to the restructuring in his Office, the TF needed to identify a new Vice-Chair to assist the Chair in advancing and managing the TF agenda and intercessional activities and also successive plan after TEL48. Currently, there was no nomination for the Vice-Chair at this meeting. The Acting Chair encouraged the meeting to provide the nomination.

10.2 The meeting then took discussion with regard to the future of the Task Force. APEC Secretariat mentioned that it would be difficult from operational aspect for the Task Force to continue the activities without the Chair.Several comments were made with regard to the term of Chairmanship and whether the current Chair’s term could be extended for more than traditional period of two years. The TEL WG Chair responded that current rules specified only the terms of WG Chair, but not those of Task Force. Under special

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circumstance, the chairmanship could be extended, if so agreed by such person and the meeting itself.

The TEL WG Vice-Chair shared the experience of rotating the chairmanship in ASEAN meetings. It may be helpful and the Task Force may think about that. This matter of lacking chairmanship happened in other groups as well. One main reason is the difficulty of economies to commit the resource of people for up to four years (two-year for Vice-Chair and another two-year for Chair). It may be helpful to start consider shortening the period. Nevertheless, the issue had to be taken on to next TEL.

APEC Secretariat mentioned that some groups of APEC had adopted a rotational basis for the chairmanship. However, it depends on circumstances and normally it should be done on a voluntary basis.

The Acting Chair mentioned that there are two main activities, apart from the implementation of MRAs, that are currently pursued by the Task Force. One was research on quantification of the MRA economic benefit ( works being done by Chinese Taipei and Korea. The other was market surveillance best practices. He also mentioned the options or possibilities of future of the Task Force:

- The works can be carried on elsewhere, such as LSG.

- Adopt a rotational basis for the chairmanship

- The Task Force meets on irregular basis or takes on some other forms of groups, such as expert group.

- Shortened cycle for chairmanship

There were always advantages and disadvantages of putting those options into practice.

The TEL WG Chair also mentioned that Mr Peter Chau, in his earlier communications, had cited lack of active participation, lack of new projects, and narrow scope as main indicators for difficulties in Task Force going forward, and had also suggested to expand the scope to cover other related technical issues, such as TBT, to TF activities.

The meeting noted the discussions and the Acting Chair would forward all comments to the LSG and later to the Plenary. The TEL WG Chair also would raise this issue in HoD meeting on Day 3.

11. Any other business

11.1 There was no other issue raised at this meeting.

12 Way Forward

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In summary, the following issues would be discussed at the future APEC TEL MRA TF meetings:

Review of market surveillance best practices Outcomes from research project on MRA economic benefits Readiness to implement MRA-ETR successive plan after TEL48

13 Date and Venue of Next Meeting

13.1 As in the past, it is proposed that the next MRA Task Force meeting be held in the first two days of TEL 48 as per the conventional APEC arrangements.

13.2 Although the MRATF meetings and drafting/training sessions will mainly be convened in two days, a room may be requested to accommodate sub-working committees to discuss and follow-up on issues of MRA in the afternoon of Day 3.

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Attachment 1

Attendance list of MRA Task Force at APEC TEL47

NAME ECONOMY Organization E-MAIL1 Mohd Fadzlan Brunei

DarussalamAITI fadzlan.abdullah@ait

i.gov.bn2 Mr. He Guili China China

Telecommunication Technology

Labs

heguili@chinattl.com

3 Mr. Francis Chan Hong Kong, China

OFCA fransicchan@ofca.gov.hk

4 Mochamad Hadiyana Indonesia MICT hadiyana@postel.go.id

5 A.A Gede Oka Indonesia SDPPI gung_o@postel.go.id6 Ika Dyah M Indonesia DJSDPPI ika@postel.go.id

7 Sofi Soeria Atmadia Indonesia MICT sofi@postel.go.id8 M. Rowan E Indonesia Ket-SRM adwan@brti.vo.id

9 Mr. Sigit Puspkd Indonesia ORTI sigit@bnti.or.id

10 Ms. Bertiana Sari Indonesia MICT bertiana@postel.go.id

11 Mr. Nob Nakanishi Japan ICCJ nob-nakanishi@dspr.co.jp

12 Mr. Masashi Takada Japan MIC m3.takada@soumu.go.jp

13 Mr. Teruyuki Shibata Japan MIC t3.shibata@soumu.go.jp

14 Mr. Bungjai Huh Korea HCT bjhur@hct.co.kr

15 Mr. Kyeong DongKim Korea Samsung jesus100@samsung.com

16 Mr. Yong-Kyu Lee Korea CAU james@cuc.ac.kr

17 Mrs. Hye Joo Yoon Korea RRA hjyoon@msip.yr.kr

18 Mr. Ju Yeong Ahn Korea EMC Compliance korea@cmciso.co.kr

19 Mr. Jason Teo Singapore IDA jason_teo@ida.gov.sg

20 Ms. The Jenny Singapore TUV SUD PSB jenny.teh@tuv-sud-psb.sg

21 Mr. Deng Junhong Singapore TUV SUD PSB junhong.deng@tuv-sud-psb.sg

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NAME ECONOMY Organization E-MAIL

22 Mr. Jr-Chang Shie Chinese Taipei

NCC jcchang@ncc.gov.tw

23 Mr. Roger Sheng Chinese Taipei

TAF roger@taftw.org.tw

24 Mr. Sung Chin Fang Chinese Taipei

BV ADT yemmy.soong@tw.bureauveitas.com

25 Mr. Hsao Hung Kai Chinese Taipei

BVADT

26 Mr. Saneh Saiwong Thailand NBTC saneh.s@nbtc.go.th

27 Mr. Artprecha Rugsachart

Thailand NBTC artprecha@gmail.com

28 Ms. Rungtawan Jindawan

Thailand NBTC rjindawan@hotmail.com

29 Ms. Rujira Thammachat

Thailand NBTC rujira.t@nbtc.go.th

30 Mr. Suriya Jiajan Thailand TOT suriyaj@tot.co.th

31 Mr. Scott A. Smith USA Department of State

smithsa@state.gov

32 Mr. Adam Gouker USA APLAC agouker@azla.org

33 Mr. Dihn Hai Dang Vietnam MIC dhdang@mic.gov.vn

34 Mr. Bui Pha Truong Trong Tri

Vietnam MIC bpttri@mic.gov.vn

35 Mr. Jumak INTUG

36 Mr. Henne INTUG

37 Mr. Shimizu APEC Secretariat mkcz@apec.org

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Attachment 2

Contributions in MRA Task Force at APEC TEL 47

[To be completed]

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ATTACHMENT 3

Update of MRA Activities and Changes to Technical Regulations

Canada IC Update

Technical regulations (Annex I of the MRA):

Since the last meeting of this Task Force on July 30th, 2012, Industry Canada (IC) has made the following amendments to its technical requirements:

Technical Requirements for radio equipment:

New Publication:

RSS-132, Issue 3: certification requirements for transmitters and receivers for cellular telephone systems in the bands 824-849 MHz and 869-894 MHz – Published on January 26, 2012.

RSS-133, Issue 6: certification requirements for transmitters and receivers used in radiocommunications systems to provide Personal Communications Services (PCS) in the bands 1850-1915 MHz and 1930-1995 MHz – Published on January 26, 2012.

Withdrawn:

RSS-118, Issue 2: Land and Subscriber Stations: Voice, Data and Tone Modulated, Angle Modulation Radiotelephone – withdrawn on January 26, 2012.

Radio Standards Specification RSS-129, Issue 2: 800 MHz Dual-Mode CDMA Cellular Telephones – withdrawn on January 26, 2012.

Upcoming Publication

RSS-142, Issue 5, "Narrowband Multipoint Communication Systems in the Band 1429.5 - 1432 MHz”.

RSS-244, “Medical Devices Operating in the 413-457 MHz Frequency Band”.

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On January 22, 2013, Industry Canada published CB Notice 2013-02 to inform Certification Bodies and other MRA stakeholders of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) three year transition (IAF Resolution 2012-09) from ISO/IEC Guide 65 to ISO/IEC 17065:2012. Recognized CBs have until 15 September 2015 to complete their transition to ISO/IEC 17065:2012.

Canada’s MRA implementation update:Canada continues to implement Phase I and Phase II of the APEC TEL MRA on conformity assessment for telecommunications equipment:

Under Phase I, Canada has designated 12 Canadian testing laboratories to test to the technical requirements of six participating economies, and has recognized 47 foreign testing laboratories from APEC economies to test to Canadian requirements. For information on Phase I, please visit the following websites:

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mra-arm.nsf/eng/nj00096.html , andhttp://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mra-arm.nsf/eng/nj00092.html

Under Phase II, Canada has designated 2 Canadian certification bodies to certify to the technical requirements of three participating economies, and has recognized 20 foreign certification bodies from APEC economies to certify to Canadian requirements. For information on Phase II, please visit the following web sites:

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mra-arm.nsf/eng/nj00098.html , andhttp://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mra-arm.nsf/eng/nj00094.html

Canada, USA and Mexico MRAs under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Canada, the USA and Mexico held trilateral training sessions in October 2012, as part of the confidence building plans specified in the Canada-Mexico and USA-Mexico MRAs. Tri-lateral discussions continue to be held to accelerate the implementation of the MRA.

China There are two technical requirements which were issued in March 2013 1) Technical Requirements for Security Capability for Smart Mobile Terminal (YD/T 2407-2013) 2) Test Methods for Security Capability of Smart Mobile Terminal (YD/T 2048-2013).

Hong Kong, China

At this point, Hong Kong, China has reached Mutual Recognition Arrangement for Conformity Assessment (MRA-CA) of Telecommunications Equipment with 5 APEC Economies including Australia, Canada, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and USA for the implementation of Phase I procedures. Meanwhile, Hong Kong, China has also reached MRA-CA with Canada and USA for the implementation

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of Phase II procedures. Being one of the several APEC economies ready for implementation of the Phase I of MRA-CA scheme when it was initially launched in 1999, Hong Kong, China further participated in the Phase II of MRA-CA in April 2005.

Phase I implementation2. Hong Kong, China has now designated a total of 8 testing laboratories, including one recognized by Canada, one by Singapore and six by the USA. Meanwhile, Hong Kong, China has recognized a total of 15 testing laboratories including three designated by Chinese Taipei, one by Singapore, one by Canada and ten by the USA. Please refer to Annex 1 for the details.

Phase II implementation3. To date, Hong Kong, China has recognized one certification body from Canada and three certification bodies from the US. Besides, one local certification body in Hong Kong, China is recognized by the US. Please refer to Annex 2 for details.

Information and contact4. The detailed information and procedures relevant to the implementation of MRA are available at the dedicated APECTEL MRA webpage of the OFCA website http://www.ofca.gov.hk/en/industry_focus/telecommunications/standards/telecom/apec_tel_mra/index.html. Hong Kong, China is ready to partner with any APEC member economies to implement MRA Phase I / II procedures. Any APEC member economy who is interested in becoming MRA Phase I / II partners of Hong Kong, China or has any enquiries on our latest implementation of APEC TEL MRA may approach us by sending email to standards@ofca.gov.hk.

Annex 1

5. List of local CABs recognised by APEC Economies under Phase I of APEC TEL MRA

Test Laboratory APEC Economy1 Intertek Testing Services Hong Kong Ltd. Canada2 Calibration & Testing Laboratory

Sun Creation Engineering Limited Singapore

3 The Hong Kong Standards and Testing Centre Limited

USA

4 CMA Industrial Development Foundation Limited

5 Intertek Testing Services Hong Kong Limited

6 TUV Rheinland Hong Kong Limited7 Bureau Veritas Hong Kong Limited

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8 SGS IECC Limited

6. List of CABs recognised by Hong Kong, China under Phase I of APEC TEL MRA

Testing laboratory APEC Economy1 National Technical Systems Inc. Canada2 Telecommunication Equipment Testing

Center, Telecommunication Laboratories,Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd.

Chinese Taipei3 Telecom LaboratoryIntertek Testing Services Taiwan Ltd.

4 Advance Data Technology Corporation (Lin Kou Laboratories)

5 TUV SUD PSB Pte Limited Singapore6 Intertek Testing Services NA Inc.

USA

7 MiCOM Labs8 Advanced Compliance Solutions, Inc.9 Compliance Worldwide, Inc.10 Bay Area Compliance Laboratories Corp.11 SIEMIC, Inc.12 Intertek Testing Services NA Inc.13 Electro Magnetic Test, Inc.14 Northwest EMC Inc.15 Curtis-Straus LLC

Annex 27. List of local CABs recognised by APEC Economies under Phase II

of APEC TEL MRA

Certification Body APEC Economy1 Intertek Testing Services Hong Kong Ltd. USA

8. List of CABs recognised by Hong Kong, China under Phase II of APEC TEL MRA

Certification Body APEC Economy1 Nemko Canada Inc. Canada2 Bay Area Compliance Laboratories Corp. USA3 SIEMIC, Inc. USA4 Curtis-Straus LLC USA

Singapore In midst of implementing MRA Phase 2 with Brunei, targeting to be completed by end of the year. Separately, Singapore’s desire to pursue

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MRA with Vietnam and get it implemented as soon as possible.

Thailand Since last APEC TEL MRA task force meeting, there is no significant change in conformity assessment regime in Thailand. Currently, a technical standard regarding vehicle radar in 76-77 GHz is being considered to be revised to incorporate 24.05-24.25 and 24.25-26.65 GHz frequency band. In addition, several new standards are being considered to be created, of which are technical standards for LTE equipment and technical standard for Short-Range-Device operating in 60GHz frequency band.

US Recent FCC updates/high profile issues include:Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) FCC 13-19: First comprehensive review of equipment authorization program in over 10 years proposed updates to administrative requirements of Part 2 of FCC rules including: TCB processes, accreditation processes, market surveillance processes, updates standards in rules (ISO/IEC 17011 and 17065, ANSI C63.4, C63.10, and C63.5), proposes eliminating 2.948 listed lab program and requiring all testing be done by accredited, FCC recognized labs. This is open for comments for 45 days from printing in Federal Register.

FCC Report and Order (R&O) 13-15: Experimental Radio rules streamlined and all moved into Part 5 of FCC rules. More of impact for domestic labs.

FCC 13-21 Signal Booster Order creates new requirements and classes for boosters in Parts 2, 22, 24, 27, 90, and 95.FCC NPRM 12-22: Adds 195 MHz of spectrum for 5 GHz UNII devices.Equipment Authorization information available at the FCC Knowledge Database: www.fcc.gov/labhelp or www.fcc.gov.Web addresses for Equipment Authorization:

o https://apps.fcc.gov/eas - FCC issued grant filing pageo https://apps.fcc.gov/tcb - TCB issued grant filing page

FCC is running out of three character grantee codes so a rulemaking increased the code size from three to five characters. Five character grantee codes will start being issued on May 1, 2013. Three character grantee codes will remain valid but no new three character codes will be issued.FCC is moving to a process where each user will have unique login and password as opposed to current system where each entity has on login and shares the password. More details will follow prior to implementation.The US is participating with nine APEC economies in phase I: Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, China, Japan (not APEC MRA), Mexico (not APEC MRA) Singapore, Republic of Korea and Vietnam.The US Phase I MRA with Mexico is in the confidence building and

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information exchange process to make it operational. The US recently signed an MRA with Israel for a Phase I MRA. The Israel MRA is expected to be operational by the end of 2013The US is participating in phase II with four APEC economies: Canada, Hong Kong, China, Japan and Singapore.FCC Recognized Phase I CABs ~305 total, ~166 in APEC economies.FCC Recognized Phase II CABs 34 total, 5 in APEC economies.Devices Certified in 2012 = 15800 (15566 by TCBs, 234 by FCC)98+ % of equipment requiring Certification is approved by Phase II CABsProducts Certified in 2012 by APEC Phase II CABs 873 (2011=467)

Vietnam 1. New technical regulations

QCVN 63: 2012/BTTTT – Technical regulation on DVB-T2 DVB-T2 receiver (based on Nordic specifications)

Main requirements

Features

Interfaces

Technical requirements

Conformity assessment method: Certification and declaration

(ref: http://mic.gov.vn/Attach%20file/Quy%20chu%E1%BA%A9n%20k%C4%A9%20thu%E1%BA%ADt/QCVN%20update%2013-12-2012/QCVN%2063%20ve%20thiet%20bi%20thu%20truyen%20hinh%20so%20mat%20dat.pdf - in Vietnamese)QCVN 65: 2013/BTTTT - Technical regulation on radio equipment using 5 GHz band (based on ETSI EN 301893V1.3.1 (2005-08))

- Main requirements:

Environment conditions

Technical requirements for transmitter

Spurious emission requirements for receiver

- Conformity assessment method: Certification and declaration

(ref: http://mic.gov.vn/Attach%20file/Quy%20chu%E1%BA%A9n%20k%C4%A9%20thu%E1%BA%ADt/QCVN%20update%2007-02-2013/QCVN%2065-2013.pdf - in Vietnamese)

2. MRA implementation update:

- Vietnam exchanged letters to implement APECTEL MRA Phase I with Korea (2006), United States (2008) and Canada (2012).

- Vietnam recognised 13 testing labs from Korea; 35 testing labs

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from United States.

The list can be seen here these links http://mic.gov.vn/mra/mra_mra/dspdkdtttnln/Trang/Danhs%C3%A1chc%C3%A1cph%C3%B2ng%C4%91oki%E1%BB%83m%C4%91%C6%B0%E1%BB%A3cth%E1%BB%ABanh%E1%BA%ADn%28theotho%E1%BA%A3thu%E1%BA%ADnl%E1%BA%ABnnhauMRA%29.aspx (in Vietnamese)

or http://english.mic.gov.vn/mra/mra_mra_mu/Trang/thelistoftestinglaboratoriesrecognizedbyvietnamundermra.aspx (in English)

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ATTACHMENT 4

TEL 47 MRA TF Proposed Agenda:

1) Welcome & Introduction

2) Economies' Update

- MRA implementation status; Technical Regulations Update - Each economy please prepare a contribution paper and upload to TEL47 website

- Additional contribution paper for information at TEL 47: 1) Overview of Certification System for Radio Equipment and Terminal Equipment, MIC Japan 2) Certification Scheme for Communications Equipment in Korea, RRA, Republic of Korea 3) Indonesian Telecom Regulatory System, PosTel Indonesia

3) Case studies on the use of MRA on Conformity Assessment by industry

- Please advise the TF Chair or Vice-Chair of any potential presenters

4) Task Force Projects

o Project E – MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements (MRA-ETR)

- Please advise Chair of any contribution on readiness to implement this MRA

- Contribution paper for TEL 47: 1) NCC’s internal procedure for implementing MRA-ETR, Chinese Taipei

o Project F – Stock-take of MRA implementation and benefits

- We encourage economies to share their experiences of MRA implementation and information of MRA benefit in terms of financial data.

- Contribution paper for TEL 47: 1) MRA Benefits Survey to manufacturers - Status update, Chinese Taipei 2) The Effect and Benefit of MRA to manufacturers, Samsung HQ, Republic of Korea 3) Measuring the economic effects of MRA, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea

5) Training

- Task Force participants are invited to identify prior to the TF meeting, any training needs relevant to either implementation of the existing MRA on conformity assessment or

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the new MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements (MRA-ETR). This is to facilitate preparation of training material.

6) Review of projects for TEL approval

- Members are invited to propose and discuss projects related to the work of the MRATF.

7) Update on the Development of Regional MRAs

- ATRC MRA Update (The ASEAN Telecommunications Regulators’ Council)

- Contribution paper for information at TEL 47: 1) ATRC Sectoral MRAs, Thailand

8) Web based information management

- Members are invited to check whether their MRA web pages can be accessed via the APEC TEL MRA webpage at www.apec.org and, if necessary, please provide the correct URL linkages to their websites to the TF Chair.

9) Market Surveillance

- The meeting will continue to discuss the Market Surveillance’s Best Practice Guideline and relate issues. The discussion will be contribution driven thus all economies are encouraged to submit contributions on this topic.

- Contribution paper for TEL 47: 1) Eco Market Surveillance Proposal, Japan

10) New Topics & Future Work

- This is an item where new topics can be presented for information or discussion by TF members. - At this TEL47 meeting, a session will be dedicated to discuss the future of the Task Force.

11) Any other matters

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47th APEC TEL WORKING GROUP MEETING

SECURITY AND PROSPERITY STEERING GROUP MEETING

April 22- 28, 2013

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1. OPENING1.1. Opening and welcome from Convenor

The Convenor opened the meeting and welcomed all delegates to the SPSG meeting.

1.2. Review and Adoption of AgendaThe Convenor reviewed the agenda and made two modifications to the agenda based on delegates’ feedback. The agenda was then adopted by all delegates.

2. HOST ECONOMY BRIEFINGS2.1. Indonesian Update on Cybersecurity Efforts

Mr. Muhammad Salman from the Indonesia Security Incident Response Team on Internet Infrastructure, Coordination Center (ID-SIRTII/CC) provided a briefing about their activities. First, Mr. Salman spoke about the effort to Clean up Cyber environment in Indonesia. He noted the growth of the internet in Indonesia is contributing to the need for security. The complexity of problems are increasing, there is a need to minimize risks and threats; a need to prevent more victims; a need for a better internet environment; the need to reduce unwanted traffic; and the need to encourage productive content. Then, Mr. Salman discussed ID-SIRTII & the Nawala Project. The Nawala project was established in 2008, initiated by Indonesia Internet Café Association (AWARI) and Id-SIRTI – the objective is to prevent negative content; safeguard children and school from unintended access. Mr. Salman shared some of the other aspects of the program, which are available in his briefing. Next, he discussed other initiatives and activities of IDSIRTII. IDSIRTII conducts a National Cyber Exercise involving all stakeholders 4 times a year, which focused on how stakeholders respond. They are also actively involved in regional activities - APCERT, OIC, FIRST, and ANSAC.

Other efforts include collaboration to support clean up in the region, including participation in Tsubame, NICTE, PRACTICE, and Data exchange with APCERT Members initiated by China CERT; Nawala – Proactive Protection for Content Filtering Initiatives; and, a Honeynet and Anti-spam project with Acad-CSIRT (academic CSIRT). Mr. Salman next discussed the Garuda Eyes initiative focused on the Indonesia Internet Traffic Monitoring System; he mentioned the Indonesia safe healthy and secured Internet campaigns to raise awareness; he noted the Cyber competitions; and reinforced their support for anti-cybercrime efforts with the National Police and Law Enforcement as an expert witness and by conducting digital forensics.

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GOVCSIRT won’t have a role in incident response and that the GOVCSIRT will instead focus more on ensuring that all government institutions are complying with established security standards.

3. Update on Cybercrime Experts GroupThe United States provided an update on the outcome of the 3rd Cybercrime Experts Group. First, Mr. Hall, Chair of the Experts Group he thanked Indonesia for their efforts as a Co-Chair and noted the diverse agenda over the two-day period. The United States then highlighted the key items from the agenda for the Experts Group including: a scene-setting session on mobile phones, digital devices, and the Internet; a review of the Connected Car and the implications of a driverless vehicle from a law enforcement perspective; a briefing from Indonesia on their approach to cybercrime including strengthening cybercrime and cybersecurity measures; and, a briefing from Chinese Taipei regarding the threat picture in that economy and their current efforts to combat cybercrime. Then, the Experts group reviewed a two-part botnet case study from the U.S., which included a review of both the investigation and the prosecution. Finally, Korea provided a briefing about their activities to fight cybercrime.

Two key themes emerged from the discussion: first, the need for international cooperation to support law enforcement, including capacity building and training and interest in additional resources that are facing us in the cybercrime world; second, emerging technologies including new threats and new technologies are rapidly influencing our ability to combat cybercrime both positively and negatively (such as botnets, the role of encryption, and emerging technology like the connected car). The next meeting will be held at TEL 48.

4. Update on Workshop on Comparing Approaches to Combating BotnetsThe United States provided an update on the outcomes of the ½ day Workshop on Comparing Approaches to Combating Botnets. Ms. Siegel highlighted the key items on the agenda: a scene-setting session to provide an overview of the current environment and high-level threat pictures; a review of a specific Botnet take-down; a briefing form Chinese Taipei on their domestic approach to addressing botnets; a briefing from Japan on some of their efforts to combat botnets; a briefing from AT&T to highlight the role of the private sector in combating botnets; and an update from AP-CERT. Then the agenda focused on ways to enhance collaboration as well as next steps. A few key themes emerged from the discussion: combating botnets is a complex challenge; there is a critical need for international collaboration to address this challenge; and, there is more work that the TEL can do intercessionally to advance cooperation on this topic as well as this effort in the TEL. Recommendations for action items made by economies were also taken into account for next steps and will be carried forward into an event at TEL 48 as well as consideration of future activities.

5. Update on APEC Training Program for Preventative Education on ICT Misuse Korea provided an update on the outcomes of their wrap-up workshop on the Preventative Education on ICT Misuse that has been held over the last four year, from 2009 - 2013. The workshop consisted of speakers from each of the countries that

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participated in the program and they reported on their training sessions as part of the project. The Phillippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam provided presentations on their training project runs. Officials from Korea also provided remarks at the Workshop. Korea distributed a comprehensive White Paper about the project as well. UNESCO’s related work was also highlighted. Korea asked economies to express interest in joining a follow-on project that would build on the work to date.

6. NEW PROJECT PROPOSALS6.1. APEC-OECD Symposium on Security Risk Management in the Internet

EconomyThe United States introduced this self-funded project proposal, which suggests holding an APEC-OECD Symposium on Security Risk Management in the Internet Economy at TEL 48. This would build on work already initiated at TEL, affording an opportunity to contribute to the review of APEC’s Strategy for a Trusted Secure and Sustainable Online Environment (TSSOE) and an opportunity to contribute to the review of the OECD’s Security Guidelines. This project was co-sponsored by Canada, Thailand, and Australia.

6.2. Towards Better Comparable CSIRT StatisticsThe United States introduced this self-funded project proposal, which suggests holding a ½ day workshop to deepen participant understanding of CSIRT-specific challenges related to measurement and to begin to identify possible solutions. This project also takes forward existing work of the TEL on CSIRT Capacity Building and Collaboration. This project was co-sponsored by Canada and Thailand.

7. CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS RAISING ACTIVITIES7.1. Stop Think Connect Campaign, United States

The United States provided an update briefing about Cybersecurity Awareness Raising activities in the U.S. Specifically, the United States highlighted key activities during last year’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). The United States also reinforced the Stop Think Connect campaign and noted that international partners can join the campaign and take advantage of all of the available resources and materials associated with the campaign, which can then be translated into different languages. The United States offered to provide more information about joining the campaign to interested economies.

7.2. APEC TEL Cybersecurity Awareness Day preparation (Convener, All)The Convenor suggested that the SPSG consider what plans we may want to put in place to further the work done to date on this topic, specifically highlighting APEC TEL Awareness Day. Delegates had a good discussion on this topic and economies suggested some possible options for consideration, which were well received by the delegates. Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and the U.S. committed to developing ideas for discussion at TEL 48 and then taking those forward to implementation in October and beyond.

8. COLLABORATION WITH OECD-WPISP8.1. OECD Update

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On behalf of the OECD WPISP, the Convenor provided a brief update on the work of the OECD, highlighting two key projects. First, in December 2012, the OECD released its report on national cybersecurity strategies: “cybersecurity policy making at a turning point.” The main objective of the work was to analyze commonalities and differences across countries and to identify key merging concepts and trends. The report is available online for review by economies. The Convenor noted the commonalities amongst the strategies that are found in the report as well as the emerging concepts. The Convenor also noted the initial phase of the review of the Security Guidelines, which has just gotten underway and discussed some of the early efforts, including the convening of an Experts’ Group on April 8th. All APEC TEL economies are welcome to join the Experts Group and contribute to the process as it moves forward.

8.2. Review of Status of Project on Developing Indicators with CSIRTs On behalf of the OECD WPISP, the Convenor provided an update on the progress to date on this initiative and highlighted immediate next steps, in which all APEC TEL economies are welcome to participate and contribute.

9. COLLABORATION WITH AP-CERT9.1. AP-CERT Update

Kaori Uemura from JP-CERT provided the AP-CERT update in her capacity as AP-CERT Secretariat. First, Ms. Uemura discussed recent activities of AP-CERT and future plans. This includes the Annual General Meeting, which was held in March, where AP CERT celebrated its 10 year anniversary. At the Meeting, APNIC hosted a meeting and the program included a look back on the last 10 years and how things have evolved, especially with respect to the CSIRT community. The APCERT vision statement is to work to help create a safe, clean and reliable cyberspace through global cooperation

Regarding the Annual General Meeting, key updates include: the new membership structure has been adjusted to full member/general member, and has been changed to Operational CSIRT Membership and Supporting Membership. This is intended to include organizations/groups that can support APCERT members and mission as well as establish a liaison arrangement with other regional CSIRT frameworks and global security operations. APCERT also held a workshop on Measurement and CSIRT Indicators at the Annual Meeting.

In addition to the Annual General Meeting, Ms. Uemura highlighted recent activities including: the AP-CERT Drill, in which AP CERT invited three OIC members and others to participate; the APCERT Tsubame Working group; CSIRT Training for AP region and Africa; the development of the APCERT Annual Report 2012, which will be up in early May; progress on the OECD – CSIRT indicator study, in which APCERT is participating; and, contribution to the APEC TEL SPSG Workshop on combating botnets. APCERT is also focused on reducing size of botnet and reducing size of BOT infrastructure. For the year ahead, APCERT plans to focus on measurement and also looks forward to continue collaboration with APEC TEL through the SPSG.

10. PROJECT UPDATES

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10.1. Security of Mobile Devices, MalaysiaMalaysia indicated that they last held a workshop in Danang and then circulated the workshop report for TEL review in St. Petersburg. Malaysia proposed concluding this report and requests to hold the next workshop on this topic at TEL 49, which would be on a schedule of every two years.

10.2. Cybersecurity Policy Developments in the APEC Region, United StatesThe United States indicated that the next steps of this project will be taken forward in the proposed joint APEC TEL – OECD WPISP Symposium on Security Risk Management in the Internet Economy.

10.3. APEC Training Program for Preventative Education on ICT Misuse, Korea

Korea noted that this project is in its final stage. Korea did want to note the last training held in Vietnam in late 2012, which was successful and Korea noted the positive role of the Ministry of ICT. The Convenor reinforced the importance of this work and commended Korea and Estelle, in particular, for their tremendous efforts over the last four years.

10.4. CSIRT Capacity Building and Cooperation, United StatesThe United States indicated that this project will be taken forward as part of the new project proposal on Towards Better Comparable CSIRT Statistics

11. ECONOMY REPORTS11.1. Malaysia, Saravanan Kulanthaivelu

Malaysia provided an update on recent activities. Mr. Kulanthaivelu highlighted a cybersecurity monitoring center initiated by Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission. It takes information in to provide a National internet network thermometer. Malaysia also participated in PRACTICE with Japan, started in August 2012 and completed on March 13th, which looked at dark net monitoring to see type of threats coming into Malaysia. Malaysia reviewed statistics from last year and saw a rise in tickets. In 2012, they had a rise from 1200 to 6000, with more tools available in 2012 than 2011. They also focused on phishing take downs, which were targeting mainly 10 local banks. Malaysia reviewed top attack categories; top source countries – indicating IP address detected from monitoring systems; Malware detected by honeynetwork – Russia/Chinese Taipei/conficker. They are also seeing use of DNS Amplification Attacks – use of open recursive DNS to amplify attacks.

11.2. China, Li HaoLi Hao from China provided a briefing focused on “Introduction of the Cybersecurity Situation in China.” Last year, there was rapid internet development in China, including Microblog, mobile payment, ecommerce, cloud computing, mobile internet, and broadband strategies. There was steady momentum, without any major incidents, but a lot of hacking, mobile, phishing, DDOS, etc. occurred. China’s cyber infrastructure was facing great challenges from highly dangerous loopholes and cyber attacks. The Ministry

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has provided guidance for carriers to prevent cybersecurity incidents. CNVD issued 211 warnings against Internet loopholes.

Hidden attacks, such as backdoors, experienced great increase and the online information of Internet users was mostly targeted by hackers. Rampant phishing scams put the interests of the public and the development of financial services online and ecommerce in jeopardy

Mobile internet was increasingly attacked by malicious programs, especially concerning the Android platform. DDOS is still a major threat to cyber security in spite of the decreased incidents from fake source addresses. Increasingly, comprehensive and complicated technologies exist. China sees frequent emergency of APT attacks from malicious programs. In 2013, the cybersecurity situation was much more complicated. The constant evolution of malicious code and loophole technologies was problematic. And, Mr. Hao noted that malicious code will become more relevant and complicated especially because of the constant evolution of malicious codes and loophole technologies and risks of targeted APT attacks at high-value information, continued major attacks from information stealing and Internet fraud, and constantly increased and more complicated malicious programs on the mobile Internet. There are also dual challenges from new data and operational risks introduced by big data and cloud platforms.

Looking ahead, China will increase its promotional campaign to educate Internet users about threat prevention to raise their awareness of cybersecurity; strengthen the protection of users’ information; provide support to combat cybercrime; enhance environmental governance of cybersecurity for the public Internet; and promote the development of cyber security industry.

11.3 United States, Jordana SiegelMs. Siegel provided an update on a policy development in the United States. On February 12, 2013, President Obama signed an Executive Order (EO) on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and a Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. These actions will strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure against evolving threats through an updated and overarching national framework that acknowledges the increased role of cybersecurity in securing physical assets.  Ms. Siegel provided additional information about the EO and the PPD and expected next steps towards implementation.

12. UPDATES ON APEC TEL ACTIVITY The Convenor reviewed the outcomes of the Independent Assessment Recommendations and suggested that all delegates review closely as they relate to conducting TEL business. The Conven0r discussed the APEC TEL Strategic Plan and reviewed the table highlighting TEL activity with delegates to confirm completeness and accuracy. Delegates identified a few minor items that require updating and the Convenor indicated that she would provide those to the TEL Chair.

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13. FINAL APPROVAL OF NEW PROJECT PROPOSALSSPSG delegates endorsed both new SPSG project proposals for TEL 48.

14. ANY OTHER BUSINESS 14.1. Seoul Conference on Cyberspace 2013

Korea provided an update on the upcoming Seoul Conference on Cyberspace 2013 to be held at COEX in Gangam, City of Seoul on October 17-18. This will be the third conference in the series. Korea expects 700-800 attendees from 80+countries from Governments, international organizations, NGO, private sectors, and academia. The main theme is global prosperity through an open and secure cyberspace. To differentiate this conference from the previous two, Korea will be broadening the scope of participation; arousing attention across developing regions; strengthening public-private partnerships; reviewing/renewing existing approaches (stock-taking) – discussion paper; and ; looking ahead toward global prosperity – outcome document that hasn’t been done in previous conferences. There will be Six sub-themes: Economic, growth, and development; social and cultural benefits; cybersecurity; international security; cybercrime; added capacity building (broaden discussion on participant). The main programme will have five plenary sessions. Korea is also holding a number of Pre-workshops: Sweden (May) – freedom of expression; June (Hungary) – cybersecurity; Korea (Seoul) – international security; and US (to be announced). Korea encourages all APEC TEL economies to participate in the conference.

14.2. Meridian 2013 Conference UpdateThe United States provided an update on the Meridian Conference. The next Conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 4-6, 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This builds on previous conferences held in London, Budapest, Sweden, Singapore, United States, Chinese Taipei, Qatar, and Germany. The Meridian Process aims to exchange ideas and initiate actions for the cooperation of governmental bodies on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) issues globally. It explores the benefits and opportunities of cooperation between governments and provides an opportunity to share best practices from around the world.  Participation in the Meridian Process is open to all economies and aimed at senior government policy-makers involved in CIIP-related issues. All APEC TEL economies are invited to participate.

14.3. FIRST and ITU Telecom WorldThailand noted that annual Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) Conference will be held June 16- 21st, 2013. It will be the 25th annual conference, with specialist tracks, case studies, and special interest groups. ITU Telecom World 2013 will also be held in Thailand November 19-22, 2013.

15. ADJOURNThe Convener provided closing remarks and concluded the meeting.

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TEL Actions on the Independent Assessment Recommendations

The Telecommunications and Information Working Group (TEL) appreciates the instruction from SCE Chair of 10 December 2012 on the results of the Independent Assessment that was undertaken of the TEL in 2012. TEL held the 47th session of the meeting (TEL47) in Indonesia from 22 to 27 April 2013, and the summary sheet from the SCE as well as the report produced by the independent assessor, Ms. Monica Dunhem, were reviewed and discussed at the meeting. The produced recommendations for TEL are as follows:

Recommendation 1: Establish mechanisms to determine when a topic had been sufficiently discussed;

Recommendation 2: Plan ahead; Recommendation 3: Add two categories to the project proposals; Recommendation 4: Targeted audience; Recommendation 5: Set the venues of the meetings as the major SOM meetings or

elaborate a list of venues for the next TEL meetings following an agreed order; Recommendation 6: Participation should be encouraged; Recommendation 7: Remote participation; and, Recommendation 8: Elaboration of a roadmap.

The table below is a list of the actions to be taken by TEL in response to the above recommendations.

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Recommendations by Independent Assessor

Actions Timeline

Recommendation to TEL WG 1.

Establish mechanisms to determine when a topic had been sufficiently discussed: elaborate a report that will include the important amount of information sharing as well as the workshops results on a particular subject and submit these documents to the economies for consideration. This mechanism will also help identify the topics that have not been sufficiently discussed.

TEL WG agreed to encourage the member economies and/or POs to make a report of their workshops in addition to a report in the SG meetings.

Ongoing

Recommendation to TEL WG 2.

Plan ahead. The identification of subjects ahead of time gives the Economies more time to plan and finance the workshops attendance as well as to invite relevant

TEL WG agreed to encourage the member economies to submit project proposals as early as possible. When workshops are organized, TEL WG

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stakeholders that could enrich the discussions.

makes efforts to announce the subjects as well as dates to the member economies as early as possible.

Recommendation to TEL WG 3.

Add two categories to the project proposals. In order to facilitate the organization of the processes the project proposals should include two more categories, one with information on the expected result and the second on its contribution to TEL Strategic Plan and objectives.

TEL WG agrees with this recommendation. In accordance with the format designated by “Guidebook on APEC projects,” TEL WG encourages the member economies to include the suggested two categories of information, one with information on expected results and the second on its contribution to TEL Strategic Plans and Objectives in the relevant part of the Template such as “Alignment” or in a supplemental document when proposing projects. TEL WG considers the information when reviewing the project proposals.

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Recommendation to TEL WG 4.

Targeted audience. A clear definition of the expected outcomes from TELs activities will permit the member economies to identify the targeted audience.

TEL WG would be supportive of making the project proposal process more informative. TEL WGto make an effort to clearly define the expected outcomes when formulating projects.

Ongoing

Recommendation to TEL WG 5.

If possible set the venues of the meeting as the major SOM meetings or propose in the next TEL WG to elaborate a list of venues for the next TEL meetings following an agreed order. In these difficult economic times with budgetary constraints it would be beneficial for TEL work to be able to establish a list of TEL meeting venues.

With due consideration on member economies’ budgetary situation, past record of meetings and so on, TEL WG agreed to consider possible approach in this area, taking into account SOM Policy on Scheduling of meetings.

Ongoing

Recommendation to TEL WG 6.

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Participation should be encouraged. The strength and fruitfulness of the meetings depends directly upon the economies’ participation.

TEL WG agrees with this recommendation. TEL WG agreed to make an effort to announce meetings’ plan including subjects and details of schedule to the member economies as early as possible.

Ongoing

Recommendation to TEL WG 7.

Remote participation. Remote participation at the meetings should be considered.

TEL WG agreed to discuss the concrete ways for future remote participation in the meetings by effective use of the Internet. TEL WG also sees potential benefit to using in new ways both connection and collaboration technologies and will explore these further.

Consideration ongoing

Recommendation to TEL WG 8.

Elaboration of a roadmap. The elaboration of a roadmap that will

Since TEL WG has “TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015”, which provide the future topics until 2015,

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organize future topics to be developed in the different steering groups could enhance participation and collaboration in the meetings.

TEL WG agreed to consider the suggested roadmap when TEL reviews the implementation status of the TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015.

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Draft APEC Telecommunications and Information Working GroupStrategic Plan 2010-2015

1 Introduction

The APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group (TEL WG) was established in 1990 and since then TEL WG meets biannually to work towards developing information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, enhancing socio-economic activities through the use of ICT and promoting a safe and trusted ICT environment with a view to promote regional economic integration and strengthen cooperation in the ICT sector.

TEL WG conducts its work programme through the following steering groups: Liberalization Steering Group (LSG) ICT Development Steering Group (DSG) Security and Prosperity Steering Group (SPSG)

The steering groups propose and implement projects that address priorities set by both Telecommunications and Information Ministers and Leaders.

2 Vision Statement

The APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group aims to improve telecommunications and information infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region by implementing appropriate telecommunications and information policies, including relevant human resource and development cooperation strategies.

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3 Mission Statement

The TEL WG consists of government policy makers and technical experts working with the private sector and academia to promote improvement of the telecommunications and information infrastructure in the region. TEL WG closely collaborates with the private sector that plays a key role for development of the telecommunications and information infrastructure.

4 Objectives

Since APEC’s inception, Leaders and Ministers has recognized the important role that ICT plays in fostering economic growth and in achieving the overarching APEC objectives of trade and investment liberalization, business facilitation and economic technical cooperation. To achieve these objectives, in 2010, the 8th Ministerial Meeting on Telecommunications and Information Industry (TELMIN8) endorsed the APEC TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015 with the following priority areas:

Develop ICT to promote new growth; Enhance socio-economic activities through the use of ICT; Promote a safe and trusted ICT environment; Promote regional economic integration; and Strengthen cooperation in the ICT sector.

In 2012, TEL WG reviewed the implementation status of the APEC TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015 and agreed to revise the Plan to further meet the APEC objectives. The 9th Ministerial Meeting on Telecommunications and Information Industry (TELMIN9) in 2012 endorsed the revised Plan, and instructed in its Declaration the TEL WG to continue its effort to advance implementation of the revised APEC TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015.

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5 Critical Success Factors

- Commitment and willingness of member economies to address issues and take actions;- Active participation of member economies in the TEL’s activities;- Open sharing of information and experiences;- Identification of capacity building needs and necessary resources;- Development and implementation of projects and initiatives to support the overarching APEC objectives;- Engagement and partnership with relevant multilateral organizations as well as with the private sector.

6 Prioritized Implementation Schedule

TEL WG developed the APEC TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015 in 2010 and accomplished objectives in some areas. As mentioned above, in 2012, TEL WG reviewed the Plan, which was endorsed by TELMIN9, as well as TEL's achievement since 2010 and made improvements on the Plan taking into account SOM's instruction on APEC Strategic Planning. The prioritized implementation schedule as of 2013 is as follow:

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Objective Activities Start Date Completion Data

Lead Economy Outputs

1. Develop ICT to Promote New Growth

Universal Access by 2015

Next generation high-speed broadband access by 2020

2010 2011 China, Hong Kong China, Viet Nam, Philippines, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Chinese Taipei

Workshop on Infrastructure Sharing to Foster Broadband was held at TEL43.

2012 2012 Viet Nam and INTUG Industry Roundtable on the topic of Digital Divide at TEL 45

2010 2011 Peru, Mexico and USA Develop a study aimed to encourage broadband-based services usage in the region and identifying best practices of Internet as a tool for strengthening development and governability in the region. Study was presented at TEL 44.

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Information sharing on the status of universal access via broadband services at DSG

Strategies to assist developing economies

2010 2015 ━ Information sharing on regulatory frameworks and policy developments at LSG at TEL44 and 45

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ICT availability to people with special needs

2011 2015 Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, USA, China, Peru, Indonesia, Korea Philippines, Russia, Chinese Taipei, Australia and Canada,

Workshop on ICT Applications for People with Special Needs was held at TEL45 and APEC-OECD joint workshop was held in September 2012

Regional deployment of IPv6

2010 2010 USA, Japan, Brunei,Canada and Singapore

Workshop on IPv6: Securing sustainable growth of the Internet at TEL 42

2010 2015 Information sharing on the topic of IPv6 at DSG

Infrastructure sharing 2010 2011 China, Hong Kong, China, Viet Nam, Philippines, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Chinese Taipei

Workshop on Infrastructure Sharing to Foster Broadband was held at TEL43

5. Enhance Socio-Economic Activities through

Development of innovative technologies and services

2010 2015 China, Russia and INTUG

Industry Roundtable on the topic of Cloud Computing at TEL 43 and 46

Smart grids and sensor 2011 2012 Russia, Japan, Workshop on Application of

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the Use of ICT

networks Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam

ubiquitous Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for customised management in emergency situations was held at TEL45 and another workshop at TEL 46.

ICT applications to drive socio-economic activities

2010 2011 Japan and Viet Nam Disaster Management Seminar was held at TEL44.

2010 2012 Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam

Study Workshop on Best Practice Transfer of Green ICT for Sustainable Growth was held at TEL44 and final report was presented in TEL 45.

6. Promote Safe and Trusted ICT Environment

Safe and trusted ICT environment

2010 2015 USA Workshop on Cybersecurity Policy Development in the APEC Region was held at TEL43 and SPSG continues discussion on cybersecurity policy developments.

2011 2011 Malaysia and Thailand DNS SEC Workshop was held at TEL44.

2010 2015 ━ APEC TEL recognition of OECD’s “Principles for Internet Policy-

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Making”2010 2012 Malaysia Workshop on Security of Mobile

Devices was held at TEL45 and development of report on the topic.

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SPSG collaborates with the OECD WPISP and the AP-CERT to support building a safe and trusted ICT environment.

2010 2015 USA, Thailand and Japan

Comparing Approaches to Botnet Prevention, Identification, and Mitigation

Cyber security capacity building

2010 2011 Malaysia and Thailand DNSSEC Training Session was held in September 2011 in KL prior to TEL44.

2010 2013 USA and Thailand Cybercrime Experts Group Meeting was established and training sessions held at TEL44, TEL45 and TEL 47.

2010 2015 USA Seminar on CSIRT Capacity Building and Collaboration held at TEL45. SPSG continued discussion on cybersecurity indicators together with

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the OECD and APEC TEL.Raising cyber security awareness

2010 2015 Japan, Korea and USA TEL established an annual APEC Cyber Security Awareness Day on 29th October. SPSG has a standing agenda item to discuss best practices for cybersecurity awareness raising and cooperation.

2010 2015 Australia, Brunei, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand and USA

TEL held a poster exhibition during TELMIN8 in Okinawa, Japan. SPSG distributed cybersecurity awareness materials during TELMIN9 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

2010 2013 Korea and Thailand APEC Training Program for Preventative Education on ICT Misuse – ongoing project within the SPSG currently on its fourth pilot.

2010 2015━

APEC TEL recognition of the OECD “Recommendation of the Council on the Protection of Children Online"

Cyber security initiatives with industry

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Mobile Devices, CSIRT Capacity Building Cooperation, DNS Sec workshop, and others.

2010 2012 Malaysia Workshop on Security of Mobile Devices at TEL45 with participants from industry

Safe and secure online environments for vulnerable groups

2010 2011 Malaysia Regulatory Roundtable on the topic of Social Media was held at TEL 44.

Internet economy 2010 2011 ━ Information sharing on cybersecurity at SPSG at TEL43

2010 2015 ━ SPSG efforts mentioned above support this objective.

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SPSG collaborates with the OECD WPISP and the AP-CERT to support building a safe and trusted ICT environment.

9. Promote Regional Economic Integration

Free and open trade and investment

2011 2012 Singapore, Hong Kong China, Japan, Malaysia, Chinese Taipei and INTUG

Workshop on Telecom Competition Policy in APEC Economies was held at TEL 45.

2012 2012 Vietnam and INTUG Regulatory Roundtable on the topic of

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Mobile Number Portability was held at TEL 45.

2011 2011━

Information sharing on domestic regulations and FTA policies at LSG at TEL 43

2012 2012━

Information sharing on net neutrality approaches in the APEC region at TEL 46

2012 2012━

Information sharing on public-private partnership frameworks in the APEC region at TEL 46

Technical conformity assessments and equivalence of technical requirements

2010 2015 Brunei, Canada, Hong Kong China, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, USA and Vietnam

MRA Task Force has discussed MRA issue and has drafting session at every TEL meeting.

2010 2015 Guideline for MRA of Equivalence of Technical Requirements Implementation was finalized at TEL46.

2010 2015 Fostered MRA of Conformity Assessment amongst economies

2010 2015 Information sharing on experiences in Market Surveillance practices

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International mobile costs

2010 2011 Australia Workshop on Progress on International Mobile Roaming was held at TEL43.

Consumer awareness 2010 2011 Singapore, Hong Kong China, Malaysia, Japan, Chinese Taipei and China

Workshop on Enhancing Consumer Protection in Telecom Services was held at TEL44

Peer learning 2010 2012 Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam

Study Workshop on Best Practice Transfer of Green ICT for Sustainable Growth was held at TEL44 and final report in TEL 45.

Submarine cable protection

2010 2011 Australia Final report of Submarine Cable Information Sharing Project was submitted after TEL44.

14. Strengthen Cooperation in the ICT Sector

Access to information 2010 2015Collaboration within APEC

2010 2011 Australia Cooperation with CTI on Submarine Cable Protection

Collaboration outside APEC

2010 2015 Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada,

Close cooperation with OECD for workshops on ICT Applications for

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China, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Chinese Taipei. Thailand, USA and Vietnam

people with special needs for knowledge exchange on innovative development for assistive ICT and applications for elderly and disabled people. Workshop was held at TEL45 and another workshop in Tokyo in September 2012.

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Draft revised Guidelines of Inter-Sessional Approval Process

These guidelines provide the procedures and criteria of inter-sessional approval process for APEC funded project proposals within TEL. The inter-sessional approval process will be applied only in case TEL cannot review project proposals in a TEL meeting due to the timing of submission deadline to the APEC secretariat. Any new project proposals may be accepted for consideration by the process. Concept Notes (CNs) approved through the inter-sessional approval process need to obtain at least 2 co-sponsors as required by Guidebook on APEC Projects. Time line indicated below is a model in a normal case (see Attachment 1) and could be changed depending on each case.

1. Points of Contacts (POC) list should be updated. One Representative from each economy should be appointed who is responsible for formal endorsement/rating. Appointment of the Representative is essential for this process.

2. Program Director (PD) announces rough schedule for submission deadline at TEL meeting.

3. PD announces deadlines of submission to APEC Secretariat and of TEL internal steps.

4. (Step 1) Project Proponents (PP) submit CNs to PD.(no less than 2 weeks for Step1)

5. (Step 2)PD circulates CNs to POC of TEL members for consideration.

6. Convenors review CNs to confirm the allocation to SGs and reply to TEL Chair and PD.

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7. (Step 3 Review at SG level)TEL Chair announces the commencement of the process and deadline of each step. TEL Chair asks TEL members to send comments to relevant Convenors with a copy to other TEL members. TEL Chair also asks Convenors to moderate on-line discussion.

8. TEL members send comments by e-mail to relevant SG Convenors, Deputy Convenors and PP with a copy to other TEL members. SG Convenors moderate the on-line discussions on relevant CNs. CNs might be revised based on comments received. (to be completed within 2 weeks)

9. By the deadline of Step 3, the CNs are deemed to have been approved if each has obtained at least 2 co-sponsors and must not have any outstanding objections or negative comments.

10. (Step 4 Endorsement at Plenary level)TEL Chair seeks endorsement from TEL members by email. Representative of each economy sends final position (endorse or not) on each CN to TEL Chair, Vice-chair, PD and PP, with a copy to TEL members. (within a week)For endorsement, "silence after the deadline for response is assumed to mean assent" in accordance with APEC practices.

11. TEL Chair announces the result of consultation on endorsement to TEL members.

12. (Step 5 Rating)PD requests TEL members to prioritize the approved project proposals by email.

13. Representative of each economy sends project rating to PD. (within a week)

14. PD announces the result of the rating to TEL members.

15. CNs are submitted to the APEC Secretariat by the submission deadline.

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16. In case of Self-funded project proposals, No.1-11 of the above process should be applied with TEL's approval in accordance with the Guidebook on APEC Projects.

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