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Next
Generation Electronic Promotion Council of Japan (ECOM)
Activity Report
- Part 2 IT Utilization Group / Special Committee on RFID
Tags/Traceability -
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Many working groups (WGs) of
the Next Generation Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of
Japan (ECOM) have already held their first meetings and
begun fully-fledged activities for this year. This month’s
report features the activities of two groups, the "IT
Utilization Group" and the "Special Committee on RFID
Tags/Traceability."
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IT Utilization WG
At the first WG meeting following confirmation of the action
plan, Mr. Keiichiro Mitsuya, NTT Data Institute of
Management Consulting, Inc., made a presentation on "IT
Investment Methods." Questions and answers were especially
lively in relation to the Performance Reference Model (PRM).
As the PRM is a new area for ECOM, the impression of some
committee members as well as ECOM Secretariat staff was that
the WG would be dealing with a difficult model, but under
the leadership of Mr. Utashiro, project general manager, the
WG members were able to commence research and examination.
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e-Government & Business Collaboration WG
At the first WG meeting, activities for the previous year
were reported and their current status was explained to new
members. Based on these reports and explanations, opinions
on desirable activities for this year were exchanged among
committee members and some activity plans were presented.
Before the next WG meeting, opinions on the activity plans
will be exchanged among committee members through ECOM
electronic conferences, while some sub-working groups (SWGs)
will be organized at the second WG meeting.
Special Committee on RFID Tags/Traceability
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Diffusion Promotion & Social Acceptability Studies WG
At the first WG meeting, with the aim of aligning member
attitudes, the overall framework of ECOM’s activities in
relation to RFID tags was first explained. In addition, and
in regard to the securing of consumer privacy at RFID tag
contact points, activities for the past two years were
summarized and the schedule and purposes of this year’s
activities were presented. Two task forces (TFs) were
organized to examine both bases for diffusion and education
and websites for consumer education, and hearings with
consumer groups are also scheduled.
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RFID Tags/Traceability Workshop
At the first workshop, two presentations were made, "This
Year’s Trends in Policies on RFID Tags" by the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry, and "Total Traceability Field
trials Based on RFID Tags in the Electric and Electronics
Industry" by the Japan Electronics and Information
Technology Industries Association (JEITA), while discussions
additionally took place on "How to Further Expand Electronic
Commerce by Means of RFID Tags." The next workshop will be
held on October 19 when discussions will be advanced on RFID
tags in the consumer electronics industry and supply chains
in Japan, China and Korea.
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Special Report:
Problems with the Further Development of Electronic Commerce
Mr. Tomokazu Hamaguchi
President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT Data Corporation
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 Diffusion of a Superior Method for Personal
Authentication
The Internet has spread into every corner of society. It is not
surprising that the Internet is easily used in daily life as well as
in the office, at work and at school. According to "Information and
Communications in Japan (White Paper)" which was released this July,
the diffusion rate of the Internet reached 66.8% of the population
in 2005, and 26.1% of all Internet users have actually used it to
purchase products and services.
On the other hand, however, incidents such as the establishment of
phishing sites and cracking into websites, through which criminals
have tried to obtain and misuse personal information including IDs,
passwords and credit card numbers, are being reported and are one of
the things causing the general public to be hesitant about using the
Internet.
Our company has been participating in ECOM since the "Electronic
Commerce Promotion Council of Japan" - the first parent body of the
current organization - was established in 1996. Both at that time
and at present, there were and are all kinds of problems with the
management of IDs and passwords in using the Internet. Under the
present scheme in which users are distinguished based only on a
verification between IDs and passwords, both users and companies
have to pay close attention to information handling as well as
system management and operation.
If an easy, inexpensive and highly-secure method of personal
authentication on the Internet was widely diffused, incidents and
troubles would be prevented. Users would easily be able to make use
of the Internet free of worry and companies would be able to
drastically reduce the cost of system construction and operation.
In addition, if such a personal authentication method on the
Internet and public personal authentication services were linked to
one another, a very convenient environment would be provided to
users in which public procedures for applications, notifications and
private commerce would be implemented by means of a series of
operations (for example, when a user purchases a car by means of a
Web browser, the vehicle would simultaneously be registered and
automobile acquisition tax also paid).
For the purpose of making use of electronic commerce with a sense of
security and to promote the utilization of electronic governments
which are not yet widespread, it is important for both the public
and private sectors to cooperate with each other in developing
online personal authentication technologies and improving public
personal authentication infrastructures.
The Direction of Advanced Electronic Commerce
BtoB transactions as a developed form of conventional VAN and EDI
among companies have also grown extensively. According to the
"Survey on the Current Status and Market Size of Electronic Commerce
for FY 2004" which was conducted last year by ECOM, the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry and the NTT Data Institute of Management
Consulting, Inc., the market size of BtoB EC amounts to 102.699
trillion yen (EC rate in all transactions is 14.7%) and has
increased 33% from the previous year.
In recent years, electronic commerce in consideration of more
advanced security and stricter compliance has likewise begun to
spread.
For example, the reduction of purchasing costs is a big issue for
companies that procure a large quantity of goods. More and more
companies are introducing electronic commerce systems such as
"electronic bidding" and "reverse auctions" into
procurement/purchasing operations. However, when undertaking
electronic procurement in an Internet-based open world, it is
necessary to pay full attention to information protection and the
securing of compliance (observance of laws, rules and regulations,
social norms, etc.).
In conventional manual bidding, even the staff members of purchasing
municipalities and companies are unable to know bidding prices and
conditions until bidding opens because bidding information,
including the prices and delivery conditions of individual business
partners, are stored in locked bidding boxes. Compliance associated
with bidding fairness is thus ensured.
An advanced system is needed to secure the same level of compliance
in IT-based electronic bidding. For example, encrypted bidding
information easily leads to misconduct such as collusion with
certain business partners as purchasing staff can access information
without permission before bidding opens if they so desire.
Our company has developed an electronic bidding method and has
actually introduced it in-house. Specifically, telegram messages are
automatically encrypted when business partners transmit bidding
prices and conditions. A "consent to bid opening" step has been
established and the sellers send a key to decode the codes to
purchasing divisions when the bidding period expires and the bidding
opens. Under this system, even purchasing staff cannot access
bidding information including sellers’ prices prior to the opening
of bidding. Prices and conditions remain encrypted until bidding
finishes, but the contact information of the bidding companies and
other similar data cannot be encrypted because such information is
needed for questioning and answering in regard to bidding
conditions. We have resolved this problem by transmitting both ciphertext and plaintext in a single telegram based on
"WS-Security," a Web service technology, although this form of
processing requires advanced technology.
There will be greater opportunities for BtoB electronic commerce to
expand if utilization infrastructures such as this electronic
bidding system, which is a response to a new type of electronic
commerce, are diffused.
Electronic Commerce and Internal Controls
The advantages of IT-based expansion in BtoB electronic commerce for
companies include not only a reduction of the purchase prices of
materials, but also the recording and "visualization" of all
"information" in relation to corporate procurement/purchasing
operations.
The Financial Instruments and Exchange Law was passed by the House
of Councilors on June 7, 2006, and the "strengthening of internal
controls in relation to financial reporting," that is, the Japanese
SOX (JSOX), will be introduced under the leadership of the Financial
Services Agency. The JSOX needs to begin in April, 2008 at the
latest, and companies are being requested to promptly respond to it.
Moreover, in the JSOX, a "response to IT" is clearly required as a
basic element of internal controls.
In evaluating internal controls in relation to business processes,
it is necessary to demonstrate that predetermined procedures and
workflows are being strictly applied. The abovementioned
procurement/purchasing is one of the operations to which the
strictest application of internal controls is required because it
covers commercial transactions with external business partners in
which money is transferred and often where purchasing staff are in
dominant positions vis-a-vis business partners. In such operations,
it is extremely difficult to manually record the vast amounts of
information generated daily and every individual task performed. If
IT was used, the data and actions produced in each operation could
be adequately gathered and processed, and the reliability of the
process reflected in financial reporting secured. Furthermore, if
business processes were automated and systematized as much as
possible, human errors would be prevented and the risk of arbitrary
judgments and misconduct reduced.
IT investments in the development of internal control systems are
often considered as new burdens for companies, but it is possible to
ease these burdens through strategic development whereby the
advantages and cost reduction effects of electronic commerce can
simultaneously be enjoyed.
Conclusion
For the purpose of resolving all kinds of problems associated with
electronic commerce, it is necessary to secure international
interoperability. If an Internet-based system cannot be used both in
Japan and abroad, its range of use for private shopping,
business-to-business transactions, corporate IT development and
other such applications will be limited and it will not be easily
diffused.
I would like to express my high regard for the numerous results that
ECOM has produced to date and look forward to its future activities
based on a broad view of domestic and overseas conditions. I also
believe that there are humble contributions that our company can
make.
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Activity
report of Information Security Workshop
Trends of Information Security Policy by the Japanese Government |
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ECOM Research Director Kazuhiro Kawashima,
EC Safety & Security Group reports on the activity of
Information Security Workshop.
With the aim of realizing safe and secure
EC, the Information Security Workshop (chairperson: Mr. Yutaka Yasukura) has been providing opportunities for the exchange of
opinions between ECOM members and intellectuals. At the first
meeting (held on July 7, 2006), a lecturer from the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry made a speech and participants
exchanged opinions on policy trends and future plans. The
contents of the lecture and the open-ended discussion are as
follows.
Lecture: Trends of Information Security Policy by the Japanese
Government
Lecturer: Mr. Hideki Kanai, Assistant Director, Office of IT
Security Policy, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Changing of the Times Surrounding Information Security
-Information Technology (IT) and the Risks of New Dimensions-
IT has rapidly developed and spread in recent years and has now
become the "’nervous system’ of the economy and society." On the
other hand, due to complicated systems, the risks of new
dimensions such as viruses, cyber attacks and computer crimes,
which did not exist in the past, have emerged. IT technologies
were used for the protection of military secrets and scientific
and technological computations in the past, but with the rapid
expansion of the range of use, IT is being used in various areas
and all kinds of risks are emerging.
Governmental Efforts -The First National Strategy on Information
Security and Secure Japan 2006-
Based on the recognition of the necessity of efforts by not only
individual ministries and agencies, but by the entire government
for information security in response to widespread IT, the
Comprehensive Strategy on Information Security was formulated in
2003. It aims to realize a world-class "highly reliable society"
and proposes three strategies: "development of a
self-recoverable ‘social system prepared for the occurrence of
accidents/incidents’ (assurance of advanced recoverability and
localization of damage)," "public-sector action for aiming at
taking advantage of ‘high reliability’ as strength" and
"coordinated action to empower the Cabinet Office." On April 25,
2005, the National Information Security Center was established
as a national center for information security in Japan. The
Information Security Policy Council, which consists of
ministerial-level members and intellectuals in the private
sector, has had six sessions to examine the establishment of
unified standards for governmental agencies, measures for
critical infrastructures, and national strategies on information
security for companies and individuals.
At the fifth session of the Information Security Policy Council
held on April 28, 2006, the First National Strategy on
Information Security was formulated as a project for the next
three years. It aims to "reduce IT malfunctions in critical
infrastructures to as close as possible to zero, to raise the IT
of companies to a world class level and to reduce the number of
individuals who feel uneasy about using IT to as close as
possible to zero" by establishing a new public-private
partnership model and making every governmental agency implement
measures required by uniform standards. Secure Japan 2006 was
presented at this session as an implementation plan for 2006
(single year) and its final version was announced to the public
on June 15.
The main points are as follows: to make governmental agencies
thoroughly implement information security measures, to diffuse
measures for all entities including the public at large and to
improve the performance of those entities that tend to be slow
in implementing initiatives. Measures for individual areas are
as follows: for governmental agencies, the establishment of a
PDCA cycle and the public announcement of evaluation results;
for critical infrastructures, the formulation and review of
safety standards by governing ministries; for companies, the
establishment and promotion of security governance and ensuring
consistency with internal control systems; and for individuals,
the promotion of information security education and Internet
safety education at elementary and junior high schools and the
establishment of an “Information Security Day” to increase
public awareness of information security, etc.
The aim of the government (essence) is to "make efforts toward
the development of information security in critical
infrastructures, companies and individuals." Its target is to
establish both desirable and minimum criteria as unified
standards for governmental agencies to replace the inconsistent
standards that were separately formulated by individual
ministries and agencies in the past, and to evaluate and improve
the performance of individual ministries and agencies by means
of the PDCA cycle.
Efforts by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Based on the understanding that the majority of information
security problems have occurred due to both software defects in
constructing information systems and user setting errors, the
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as the governing agency
of industries including the information systems industry, has
been providing the requisite tools for related measures and
developing security measures for industries under its
supervision. Together with affiliated organizations, the
ministry has been implementing both organizational
(establishment of the ISMS conformity assessment system, the
information security auditing system, information security
governance and the quantification of risks) and technical
measures (safety assessment of IT products, ciphers and
encrypted products, construction of electronic authentication
infrastructures and technical development) and has been
establishing laws(Law concerning e-Signatures, Unauthorized
Computer Access Law, etc.).
In the 1990s when personal computers became widespread,
information security threats were posed mainly by criminals for
pleasure who tried to demonstrate their skills and damage was
limited in many cases. However, with the dissemination of the
Internet, damage has grown to massive proportions and spoofing
and fraud have become conspicuous in addition to crimes that
target the vulnerability of software. Moreover, the tactics used
by attackers have become organized, specialized and
sophisticated in accordance with economic motives. The Ministry
of Economy, Trade and Industry is now undertaking
countermeasures by establishing a notification system on
computer viruses and unauthorized access, introducing
fixed-point observation of the Internet, constructing and
strengthening an early-warning system and putting anti-phishing
measures in place.
Open-ended Discussion: Problems with Information Security
Promotion of Information Security Measures
As for information security, there are differences between those
who implement relevant measures and those who do not, and
between measures that have already been implemented and those
that have not. Everyone now wears a seatbelt when we drive a car
because we face paying a fine for failing to do so. Likewise in
relation to information security, it is necessary to establish
guidelines and rules to be observed as well as measures to be
implemented by everyone, with the aim of realizing world-class
security.
Unified Standards for Governmental Agencies and Evaluation
It is necessary to establish measures and systems to be
implemented and observed by everyone. However, without the
leadership of government, all entities (businesses and the
public) will not follow. It is extremely important to formulate
unified standards for governmental agencies (*1) and to improve
and raise the level of the performance of ministries and
agencies through competition within the government by making
them evaluate their own performance and releasing evaluation
results to the public (*2). It is also necessary to prepare
guidebooks so that succeeding businesses and individuals may
specifically put the standards into practice.
Diffusion of and PR for Information Security Measures
System developers often say that we should make more efforts
toward security measures, but major incidents sometimes occur
because users make mistakes with their settings. Although the
skills of developers are important, we will not be able to
realize a world-class information security nation without the
improvement of the literacy of individual users. The foundation
of an "Information Security Day" to increase public awareness is
significant in this sense and it is important that everyone be
dedicated to IT diffusion and education in accordance with the
division of roles between developers and users and the level of
knowledge.
Future Activities
We will exchange information and opinions, including the latest
news, with mainly ECOM members and from a new perspective on
topics as well as problems to be addressed by both the public
and private sectors in an integrated manner. We will also hold
PR and educational events for information security toward safe
and secure electronic commerce through ECOM seminars and ECOM
news.
Figure: contents of activity and future plan of Information
Security Workshop
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Overview of
WG activity in FY 2006:
ECOM Technological Infrastructure
Development Group
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In 2006, as with last year, the WG activities of the ECOM
Technological Infrastructure Development Group will be predominantly
implemented by three WGs: the "Information Sharing Technology WG,"
the "Next Generation EDI (ebXML) WG" and the "Practical B2B-EC
Framework Study WG."
Masato Tamori, Research Director of the ECOM Technological
Infrastructure Development Group, introduces the group below and
gives an outline of the activities of the "Next Generation EDI (ebXML)
WG" which is one of the three WGs mentioned above.
======================================================================== 1. Overview of activity of Technological Infrastructure Development
Group
The "New IT Reform Strategy" which was formulated by the IT
Strategic Headquarters in January, 2006, proposes enhanced business
competitiveness through the establishment of management by utilizing
IT as one of the policies for the "pursuit of IT structural reform
capabilities." The policy advocates the "construction and
utilization of general-purpose shared infrastructure that
enterprises can jointly use for electronic commerce" and "increasing
the percentage of small and medium enterprises that utilize IT for
fundamental businesses and increasing the trading partners of small
and medium enterprises that engage in electronic commerce." For the
purpose of constructing and making use of such general-purpose
shared infrastructure in electronic commerce, in other words,
"constructing and diffusing shared infrastructure for
business-to-business electronic commerce (a business-to-business
electronic commerce platform)," the Technological Infrastructure
Development Group will advance activities based on cooperation
between the three WGs and relevant organizations including the Japan
Electronic Data Interchange Council (JEDIC).
Figure1: Relation chart between platform of B to B e-commerce and
ECOM WG activities
2. Overview of activity of Next Generation EDI (ebXML) WG
As shown in Figure 1, the Next Generation EDI (ebXML) WG will
examine and study the following specific items under two main
themes: a survey on standard technologies and support for
international standardization activities, and a survey on EDI/EC
solutions.
2-1 Survey on standard technologies and support for international
standardization activities
(1) Support for standardization of ebMS3.0 (ebXML Message Service 3.0)
Deliberations on ebMS3.0 (*1) which adopted requirement
specifications for the client-server (PC client)-compliant message
service function and which was proposed to OASIS, have entered the
final stage. The WG is participating in the deliberations through
weekly teleconferences on public comments that were sent to the
public review draft (as of May 9, 2006). It is expected that ebMS3.0
will be officially released around September ? November, 2006.
(2) Preparation for interoperability verifying test on ebMS solutions
For the purpose of establishing ebMS in Japan and Asia, the WG has
implemented interoperability tests on the ebMS solutions of relevant
organizations and vendors in Japan and Asia, in cooperation with the
eAC (e-Business Asia Committee) (*2). On this occasion, the WG will
prepare so it can implement a test in response to the latest
specifications of ebMS3.0 that are to be standardized.
The WG will formulate the following two test specifications this
year.
The reliability conformance test specification relates to
WS-Reliability to be built into ebMS3.0. After the test requirement
specifications are formulated, proposed to the eAC and approved, the
test will be implemented from 2007.
2-2 Survey on EDI/EC solutions
(1) Survey of EDI/EC solutions, mainly in relation to message services
The diffusion and promotion of EDI/EC to small and medium-sized
enterprises is indispensable to its continued dissemination.
Specifically, it is necessary to present EDI/EC solutions that small
and medium-sized enterprises can use and towards this purpose, ECOM
needs to recommend high quality solutions.
Accordingly, the WG will conduct a survey on the solutions of
leading groups and vendors mainly in relation to message services
this year. Specifically, the WG will conduct hearings with relevant
groups and vendors on client-server solutions (the
client-server-compliant message service function mentioned above in
2-1-?), client-client solutions in anticipation of further
development and related architectures.
The target solutions and relevant groups and vendors to be hearing
candidates are shown in Table 1.
Table1: Overview of EDI/EC solution study, mainly in relation to
message services
| Target solutions |
Hearing
candidates |
| Survey on client-server solutions and
client-client solutions |
The Distribution Systems Research Institute (DSRI) |
| Japan Electronics and Information Technorogy
Industries Association (JEITA) |
| Common XML/EDI Practice Promotion Council |
| Argo21 Corporation |
| Others |
| Survey on rich clients*1 |
Microsoft Corporation |
| Survey on utilization of digital documents*2 |
Adobe Systems
Incorporated |
*1 A rich client refers to client software whose user interface has
enhanced (rich) visual quality and operability. On the other hand,
web browser software for browsing conventional HTML files is called
a HTML client. A rich client is client software for resolving
problems with operability and the slow responses of HTML clients,
and includes various kinds which add functions to the web browser as
a base and uses unique clients etc.
*2 For details, please refer to "?Survey on utilization of digital
documents (eDocs)" as described below.
(2) Survey on utilization of digital documents (eDocs)
This project has been developed by the UN/ECE (European group) since
2000 and a survey will be conducted on the availability of digital
documents (eDocs) for EDI which is being studied by TGB2, the
sectional committee of the UN/CEFACT. Because eDocs can easily
maintain consistency between paper documents and digital data and
has advantages for both small and medium-sized enterprises as well
as major enterprises, it has the potential of producing solutions
for small and medium-sized enterprises that tend to be slow in
promoting EDI/EC. The advantage for small and medium-sized
enterprises is its simplicity that enables both document preparation
regardless of styles and as if prepared with a word processor, and
the transmission of telegram messages by means of e-mail
attachments. On the other hand, the advantage for major enterprises
is that data can be easily reused because transmitted eDocs files
are defined under the XML method.
*A sample can be browsed and downloaded from the following URL:
www.unece.org/etrades/unedocs/docs/UNeDocs_Adobe_Interactive_FFI.pdf
Figure2: Sample of digital documents (eDocs)
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development of an electronic commerce environment such as the
Internet, we are now realizing a society in which everyone can be
involved in electronic commerce. Toward the promotion of next
generation electronic commerce, relevant trends in Japan will be
reported on by means of a comparison between Japan and the U.S.A in
terms of electronic commerce market size. Date: September 1, 2006 (Friday), 15:15 - 16:30
Location: Meeting Room 6F (6-66, 67) Kikai Shinko Kaikan Building
(3-5-8, Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
▼Program For details see ECOM’s website (http://www.ecom.jp/seminar/seminar12.html)
| 15:15-15:30 |
Greeting: "IT Trends Surrounding Electronic Commerce in
Japan"
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 15:30-16:15 |
Lecture: "Electronic Commerce for 2005 - Development
from Defensive EC to Aggressive EC" |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Q&A |
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Announcement of the “Thirteenth ECOM Seminar”
- Trends and current status of RFID tag utilization in Asia- |
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penetration of electronic commerce into the social and economic
system and the growth of its importance, the necessity of rational
and effective integration with new information media including RFID
tags is increasing. At this seminar, lectures will be given on the
current status and latest trends of RFID tag utilization in Asia.
Date: September 8, 2006 (Friday), 13:30 - 16:30
Location: Meeting Room 6F (6-65, 66) Kikai Shinko Kaikan Building
(3-5-8, Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
▼Program For details see ECOM’s website (http://www.ecom.jp/seminar/seminar13.html)
| 13:30-14:20 |
Lecture 1: "Survey Report on the Possible
Utilization of IC Tags (RFID Tags) in ASEAN Countries" |
| 14:20-15:10 |
Lecture 2: "The Current Status and Latest
Trends of RFID Tag Utilization in China" |
| 15:10-15:20 |
Coffee break |
| 15:20-16:10 |
Lecture 3: "The Current Status and Latest
Trends of RFID Tag Utilization in Korea" |
| 16:10-16:30 |
Q&A |
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Announcement of the “Forteenth ECOM Seminar”
-Overview and future development of Hibiki Project- -Debriefing
session of Hibiki Project- |
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Project," which the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry launched
in August, 2004, finished at the end of July, 2006 after two years
of progress. At this seminar, participants in the "Hibiki Project"
will be invited as lecturers and reports will be made on the
functions and performances of chips, inlets and other similar
products that were developed as part of the project, the results of
participation in the project, as well as field evaluations and
future development. Date: September 26, 2006 (Tuesday), 13:30 -
17:25
Location: B2Hall, B2 Kikai Shinko Kaikan Building
(3-5-8, Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
▼Program For details see ECOM’s website (http://www.ecom.jp/seminar/seminar14.html)
| 13:30-13:35 |
Greeting Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry |
| 13:35-13:40 |
Greeting: "Regarding to the Hibiki Project "
Hitachi, Ltd. |
| First Session: Outline of
the Hibiki Project and Contents of Development |
| 13:40-14:00 |
Lecture 1-1: "Development Process and
Achievements of the Hibiki Project" |
| 14:00-14:15 |
Lecture 1-2: "Development of IC Chips for
Hibiki Tags and Low-cost Inlets" |
| 14:15-14:30 |
Lecture 1-3: "Development of Readers/Writers
for Evaluation of the Hibiki Project" |
| 14:30-14:45 |
Lecture 1-4: "System Evaluation of the
Hibiki Project" |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Q&A / Coffee break |
| Second Session: Evaluation
of the Application of Hibiki Tags and Future Development |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Lecture 2-1: "Trends in the RFID Tag Market
and Evaluation of their Application in Belt Conveyers" |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Lecture 2-2: "Development of Small Tags" |
| 15:30-15:45 |
Lecture 2-3: "Total Traceability Field
Trials and Evaluation of the Application of the Hibiki Tag
System" |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Lecture 2-4: "Evaluation of the
Interoperability of Hibiki Tags and Verification of their
Practical Use at Manufacturing Sites" |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Q&A / Coffee break |
| Third Session: Field
Evaluation of Hibiki Tags and Future Development |
| 16:15-16:35 |
Lecture 3-1: "Field Evaluation in Books and
Future Development" |
| 16:35-16:55 |
Lecture 3-2: "Field Evaluation in Home
Electric Appliances and Future Development" |
| 16:55-17:10 |
Q&A |
| 17:10-17:20 |
Summary: "Summary of the Hibiki Project"
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 17:20-17:25 |
Greeting Next Generation Electronic
Promotion Council of Japan (ECOM) |
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From the Secretary-General |
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members have returned to the Secretariat from summer vacation and
ECOM will implement activities in an accelerated manner from now on.
Next month, we will have the 12th, 13th and 14th ECOM seminars
(September 1, 8 and 26, respectively). (For details, please refer to
http://www.ecom.jp/.) Working
groups have had their first meetings to return to their starting
points and will implement fully-fledged activities toward the end of
the year. Your continued support would be greatly appreciated.
▼Mr. Byung-Heon Shon, who was transferred from the Ministry of Commerce,
Industry and Energy in the Korean government to ECOM in September
2003 and who joined the International Relations Group, will return
to the same ministry at the end of this month. We owe him so much
for the cooperative activities between Japan and Korea through the
Japan-Korea EC Promotion Council and the Japan-Korea EC Policy
Dialogue, etc. I would like to take this opportunity to again thank
him. His successor will join us in September and I will introduce
him in the next ECOM News. (Kataoka)
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ECOM News No. 17
Issue Date: August 31, 2006
Issuer: Next Generation Electronic Commerce Promotion Council
of Japan
Kikai Shinko Kaikan Bldg 3F
3-5-8, Shibakoen, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0011, Japan
Tel: +81-3-3436-7500, Fax: +81-3-3436-7570
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