APEC Seminar
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Project |01 "Women's Business and Smart Technology" Seminar in 2014 APEC WEF
The “Women’s Business & Smart Technology” Seminar is a part of 2014 APEC Women and The Economy Forum (WEF). 2014 APEC-WEF is hosted by 2014 APEC-China. The Seminar is co-organized by Asia Pacific Women’s Information Network Center (APWINC), Korea Women’s Entrepreneurs Association (KWEA), and Global Women’s ICT Network (GWIN), hosted by Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MOGEF) of Republic of Korea (ROK), in cooperation with All-China Women’s Federation of the People’s Republic of China. The objective of the seminar is to promote mobile commerce and social commerce for women’s business, and to identify key strategies for enhancing women’s economic empowerment using smart technology.
The seminar contains basic research, current trends on use of smart technology, best practices & business models, and enabling environment: cyber security. For the basic research, current use of smart technology by Korean women entrepreneurs and successful cases on the use of smart technology, mobile commerce and social commerce in APEC region will be investigated. In the Seminar, successful business models of mobile commerce and social commerce will be introduced and promoted to APEC economies. In addition, policies and development strategies using smart technologies will be discussed and reported to APEC Policy Partnership on Women and The Economy (PPWE), Small and Medium Enterprises Working Group (SMEWG).
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Date : 2014.5.23.(Fri.) 13:30 – 15:30
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Venue: Beijing Hotel, Beijing, the People’s Republic of China
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Organized by: APWINC, KWEA, GWIN
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Hosted by: MOGEF of Republic of Korea,
in cooperation with All-China Women’s Federation of the People’s Republic of China. -
Supported by: speaker support - NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) USA
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Participants: approximately 100-150
- women entrepreneurs, members of the Women Entrepreneurs Association of APEC region,
government officers, academic scholars.
Program
Moderator : Ms. Maria Montserrat Hamlin
13:30 ~ 14:40
Opening & Welcoming Remarks
- Opening:
Ms. Min Jai Lee (Chairperson, Korean Women Entrepreneurs Association, ROK)
- Welcoming:
Ms. MU Hong (Director-General, All-China Women's Federation of the People’s Republic of China)
13:40 ~ 14:15
Keynote Speech
- Dr. Kio Chung Kim
“APEC Initiative for Women’s Participation in the Digital Economy, Smart Economy,
and Creative Economy via Smart Technology”
- Dr. Ernest L. McDuffie
“The Importance of Women in Cybersecurity: How NICE in the US is Approaching the Issues”
Moderator : Dr. Ching-Cheng Chang
14:15 ~ 14:30
14:30 ~ 15:00
Session on Research on the use of the smart technology and challenges
- Dr. Yongja Kim
“Research and training program on the use of the smart technology and challenges in Korea”
- Dr. Lorna Wright
“Smart technology trends and Canadian women-owned business: attitudes, needs and policies”
Moderator : AM. Natasha Stott Despoja
Session on Research on the use of the smart technology and challenges
- Ms. XU Li
“Case Presentation of the People’s Republic of China”
- Dr. Soyoung Lee
“Case Presentation of ROK”
- Ms. Irene Boey
“Case Presentation of Singapore”
Session on enabling environment for using smart technology for women’s business & recommendations (with participants)
- Dr. Ernest L. McDuffie
- Dr. Lorna Wright
- Dr. Yunkeum Chang
15:00 ~ 15:25
15:25 ~ 15:30
Closing Remarks
- Dr. Yunkeum Chang
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