Three nations sign 2008 Olympics IT pact

By Staff, ZDNet Asia
Tuesday, September 09, 2003 09:38 AM
China, Japan and South Korea have agreed to work on information technology (IT) logistics for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, according to Korean news agency Oana-Yonhap.

The cooperation is part seven high-tech areas the three countries will work on, which will include digital broadcasting, next-generation Internet networks, open-source software, information security and protection, next-generation mobile communications, and telecom policy, said the report.

The three sides will cooperate in construction and enhancement of communications network, internet security, system integration and e-government during the big games.

The alliance aims at making Northeast Asia into a regional IT hub.

Chinese Information Industry Minister Wang Xudong, Japanese Public Management Minister Toranosuke Katayama and South Korean Information and Communication Minister Chin Dae-je meet in Jeju, South Korea, on Monday to sign the agreement.

"Let us build a new milestone for co-development of the IT industry in the region," Chin said in the report.

Chin urged the three nations to search for win-win strategies to gain competitiveness in the future worldwide market. The countries plan to exchange information and promote personnel interchanges initially, said the report.

Also, the three countries agreed to exchange network and information security policies and mechanism, as well as to make joint responses to hacking and virus attack on the Internet and exchange of information, said a separate report by official news agency Xinhua.

Representatives from governments, businesses and research groups had held sessions to come up with specifics related to the seven fields.

Last week, China, Japan and South Korea met in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh to sign a deal to research and develop non-Windows, open-source operating systems.


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