Chicagoland Electronic Commerce Initiative's Mission to the Global Business Opportunity Conference (G-BOC)
October 2002
Advanced infrastructure (Update 11/04)
Disaster preparedness (Update 10/04)
See, also, Murphy's PowerPoints: August 2000, Go Faster, Go Global! (From the "Grass Roots" meeting between the City of Chicago and the City of Osaka at DePaul University).
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Several CECI participants have attended G-BOC and other programs, but this is the first official visit from CECI. CECI has been very active in promoting investment opportunities in Japan to U.S. companies in the high technology sector. CECI believes that there will be great value in the exchange of ideas between interested parties at the G-BOC.
If there is sufficient interest in additional presentations, CECI may also be willing to make presentations in other Japanese cities, before or after G-BOC.
CECI has selected advanced infrastructure and disaster preparedness as its two areas for presentation and meetings.
1 Global Information Infrastructure / International Research and Educational Networks
Powerpoint (still in draft form)
CECI's role in the international business community has increased as more enterprises become interested in global business-to-business commerce and security systems using hybrid private/public networks and the Internet. Mr. Murphy has been involved in large scale telecommunications system design and new technologies for several decades (publishing, knowledge management, market assessment, etc.). The focus of the presentations for G-BOC will be refined (with the aid of other CECI participants) on the web page http://www.ceci.org/500/Japan between June and October 2002 in preparation for the G-BOC presentations.
- Global Information Infrastructure (i.e. NIST Global Information Infrastructure Commission, Interest Organizations, etc.)
- International Research and Educational Networks (i.e. Star Tap, 6REN, TransPac, National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/IT R&D) etc. )
- International Commercial Networks (i.e., Automotive Network Exchange, Covisint, etc.)
Japan has a unique opportunity to develop advanced infrastructure as part of its plans to revitalize its telecommunications infrastructure by 2006. Modernization in Japan is likely to surpass systems in many other countries as a result of planned growth supported by industry to provide new services to an educated marketplace. Chicago and the Midwestern United States remain the centers for technical innovation and traditional manufacturing. The Ameritech NAP and TransPac are two exchange points in which Japan engages in high-speed research communications with the U.S.A. CECI is interested in developing more commercial exchange points in the United States. CECI has addressed several of the modern issues facing the secure exchange of information between businesses. CECI has also made presentations about communication between automotive manufacturers and suppliers. We will seek partners in Japan to further the development of international communications and communications between high speed networks in Japan and other countries.
*Type of Japanese company you wish to meet at the Individual Business Talks:
Prefecture representatives, data service providers (telecommunications, Internet, others), business incubation facilities, research organizations, trade and business associations
2 Disaster Preparedness (i.e., critical infrastructure, redundancy, life safety, etc.)
Disaster preparedness does not prevent disasters. The shift in philosophy over the past few years has been away from prevention to planed response. If employees are trained to react to a disaster, they may be able to mitigate its effect (or at least prevent further disasters from happening). Even diversified systems are not immune from failure or overload. Network planning for advanced systems anticipates the survival of the network. . . even in the case of the wholesale destruction of entire sub networks (In this example, Systems 1, 2 and 3). Failures of entire regions can be anticipated and addressed. However, systems in 2 and 3 each become at risk for the failure of the other. A subsequent earthquake in 3 leaves system 2 as the only center left to carry the anticipated load for all three systems. Teams involved in the protection of human life should not participate in teams that protect physical equipment or who are responsible for disaster response for equipment and systems.
*Type of Japanese company you wish to meet at the Individual Business Talks:
Prefecture representatives, fire and safety companies, insurance companies. and more
Other presentation topics may include:
Protocols and Standards (i.e., TCP/IP Version 6, IP Sec., MPLS, etc.)
Methods of Communication (i.e., fiber optic, copper, satellite, wireless, etc.)
Types of Communication Systems (i.e., metro area networks, enterprise networks, expanded campus environments, peering, peer to peer, extranets, exchanges, etc.)
Knowledge Management (i.e., data warehousing, data mining, artificial intelligence, advanced storage systems, etc.).
Other topics (i.e., Security, Public Key Infrastructure, Enterprise Networks, , etc.)
CECI has explored many of these topics in the past six years and has accumulated information about these areas of global interest. The wild fluctuations in the economy have not affected CECI greatly because CECI has focused on the discussion of several new and interesting technologies. We have remained flexible by not limiting our discussions to narrow areas.
Some of the CECI participants will be able to supplement Mr. Murphy's presentations.
The first G-BOC deadline is June 10. As the summer progresses, Mr. Murphy will provide more detail about his own presentations and other CECI participants that plan to attend G-BOC.
We anticipate that several CECI participants from the Chicago area will attend G-BOC in 2002.
This page will be updated as the exact topics and participants become known.
Michael Murphy, Chairman of the Chicagoland Electronic Commerce Initiative, expects to make a presentation to commercial prospects and to interested Prefectures in October of 2002 at the Global Business Opportunities Convention.
Mr. Murphy founded CECI in 1995. CECI's interest in data communications includes international business and the development of world wide communication systems.
CECI is a not for profit organization interested in information exchange of information between interested parties. CECI participants are involved in "for profit" businesses. Mr. Murphy works for WAMITS, Inc. and other "for profit" corporations.