CAPTEL Photo and Resource Archive of the UNESCAP's Regional Expert 
Conference on Harmonized Development of Legal and Regulatory Systems for 
Electronic Commerce in Asia and the Pacific: Current Challenges and Capacity Building Needs

United Nations Convention Centre, Bangkok, Thailand 7-9 July 2004

(For more information about the UNESCAP Conference CLICK HERE)

On the 7th July 2004, the UNESCAP convened E-Commerce Law experts from the 
Asia Pacific region to discuss how to assist the governments of the less developed 
countries in the development of their legal and regulatory systems for E-Commerce.  

Most significantly, 6 of the 26 experts invited to the conference are Fellows and Associates
of CAPTEL. They are:

1. Prof Hong Xue (Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong) CAPTEL Associate Fellow - Current Challenges in E-commerce Legal and Regulatory Systems Development in Asia-Pacific - The China Case  and Dispute resolution for e-commerce: the experience and the prospective of China;

2. Mr Pavan Duggal (India) CAPTEL Associate Fellow - Regional harmonization of e-commerce laws and regulatory systems in South Asia;

3. Mr Goh Seow Hiong (Business Software Alliance) CAPTEL Associate Fellow - Current Challenges in E-commerce Legal and Regulatory Systems Development in Asia-Pacific - The Singapore Case (Presentation) and (PAPER)

4. Mr Rajesh Sreenavisan (Messrs Rajah & Tann) CAPTEL Associate Fellow - An analysis of e-commerce legal and regulatory frameworks of developing countries in East Asia Pacific (EAP)

5. Prof Toh See Kiat (CAPTEL Fellow) - B to B security solutions ; and 

6. Prof Harry SK Tan (CAPTEL Director) -  Best practices of legally securing e-commerce (Presentation) and (PAPER)

 

SESSION #1 PANELISTS - "National E-commerce Legislation in Asia-Pacific: Regional Best Practices" At this session Goh Seow Hiong (second from left) spoke about "Case of Singapore" and Rajesh Sreenavisan (second from right) spoke on "An Analysis of E-commerce Legal and Regulatory Frameworks of Developing Countries in East Asia Pacific"

 


Day 1 - SESSION #1 PANELISTS - Rajesh was the opening speaker at the conference reporting on the findings of their research conducted on behalf of the World Bank on the E-Commerce Frameworks of selected countries in the region.

 


Goh Seow Hiong at the start of the second Session

 

Some of the resource experts

 

 


Rajesh considering a question posed by a participant

 

Day 2 - SESSION #9 PANELISTS - "Legal Issues related to online security for E-Commerce" - Prof Toh See Kiat, Prof Harry SK Tan and Luc Mensah. Harry spoke on the Best Practices of Legally Securing E-Commerce while See Kiat spoke on B2B Security.

 


Also at the Conference were Marianne Law, Nicholas Langford and Chun Li from New York Law School with Prof Tan. The three graduate students were interning at CAPTEL for the summer of 2004

 

Prof Harry Tan seen here discussing with the Director of NECTEC Thailand about possible collaboration

 


At the end of day 2, CAPTEL Associates mingled
and discussed about the day's proceedings.

 

Session #9 Chair - Prof Michael Geist of U of
Ottawa with Prof Harry SK Tan

 


Prof Amelia Boss of Temple University sharing a
joke with Prof Toh See Kiat at end of Day 2

 


Day 3 - Seow Hiong, Profs Harry Tan and See Kiat arrived
early, found some time to pose for the camera

 


Day 3 - Expert Roundtable on Capacity-Building Needs for E-commerce Legal and Regulatory System Development - Prof Toh See Kiat (centre) listening to the ITU presentation

 


Prof Toh See Kiat with Mr Goh Seow Hiong

 


Mr Pavan Duggal and Prof Harry Tan

   

 
A CAPTEL Associates group photograph. From left to right - Pavan Duggal,
Prof Hong Xue, Prof Harry Tan, Dr Roland Amoussou-Guenou, Mr Rajesh Sreenavisan,
Ms Marianne Law, Mr Nicholas Langford, Prof Toh See Kiat and Mr Chun Li.

 

 

180° wide angle photograph of delegates and experts at the Conference Hall at the UN's Conference Centre in Bangkok Thailand (scroll right to see all)

 

 

 

   For more information about the conference, visit http://www.unescap.org/tid/projects/ecom.asp