Asia-Pacific II 2007 (13)

Theme: Next generation strategies - a look at the new environment - Part II

The changes brought by today's information and communication technologies have unsettled the sectors involved and raised a series of profound questions that policy makers and regulators throughout the world are struggling to deal with. Business users are finding that buying technology and learning to use it is just the first step; to really take advantage of the new technologies and tackle the competition they often have to re-invent their processes, systems and products - even the corporate culture and the company itself. Governments and institutions, like businesses, have to re-think their systems and services in terms of what the new technologies can do, but the payoff in better services, greater efficiency and reduced costs can quickly re-pay the effort. The new technology is infiltrating itself into the daily lives of people in the world's great cities and in its remotest reaches, bringing basic communications, entertainment and new life-changing educational, medical and business services.

In the sector itself, the changes are profound. Manufacturers, systems developers, content providers, distributors, operators, carriers; each and everyone in the sector is feeling the change. New business models, new partners, new marketing and new competition are the rule.

The theme of Connect-World: Asia-Pacific II (2007), our coming edition will be Next generation strategies - a look at the new environment - Part II

Connect-World Asia-Pacific is an official media sponsor of PTC (14-17 January 2007, Hawaii), Carriers World (13-15 March 2007, Hong Kong), and PTC/User World event 2007 Americas (3-6 June 2007, Tampa, Florida).