2月2日、Web2.0サービスおよびe-ファイナンスに関するカンファレンスが、台北の実践大学（Shih Chien Univ.）で行われる。

愛媛県の松山市の中村市長がキーノートをされることになっているが、僕もOA学会の上杉先生のお招きで、プレゼンテーションを行うことになった。

台湾のベンチャー事情に触れるよいチャンス。非常に楽しみだ。

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International Congress on Innovative IT-enabled
Services (ITeS) in the New Economy
-- Web2.0 Services and e-finance
 
February 2nd, 2007 (Friday)
 
I. Background
 
Industrial transformation propelled by deregulation and
technological advances is a common issue faced by the newly
industrialized countries. Taiwan is no exception. Facing traditional
manufacturing industries relocating in less developed countries, the
need to develop substitutive industries has become evident. Taking
after Japan, Taiwan launched her e-Taiwan, M-Taiwan and recently,
U-Taiwan projects accordingly. Like Japan, by relying on her IT
manufacturing capabilities, Taiwan hoped to develop innovative IT
enabled services as her future star. 
 
Recently, a resurgence of dot com business with a set of new
business logic (Web2.0) also cast some lights on the possibilities to
develop innovative web services along sides with the deregulated
ICT industries. Another area showed great potential for IT enabled
innovative service is in the area of e-finance, as most financial
services today can be provided through the digital means. The
advance in IC smart card makes it possible to carry out all of our
daily transactions with only a plastic card (or other devices). 
 
As Japan and Taiwan had each accumulated rich experiences in
the past, it is beneficial to exchange experiences and ideas in order to
push further the IT enabled innovative services. Through paper
presentation and panel discussion, we hope to learn from each other
and further the development of IT enabled innovative services in the
future.