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2016 APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group(ECSG) Officially Agrees Chinese Taipei's Proposal to Hold IDEAS Show at APEC Social e-Commerce in July, an International Conference Directed by Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and Conducted by Institute for Information Industry(III)
Date: 2016/03/02
Picture description: In 2016, APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group(ECSG) officially agreed Chinese Taipei's proposal to hold IDEAS Show at APEC Social e-Commerce in July. Instructed by Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA),in July, III will hold idea exchanging activities such as international conference, startup team internet competition etc. to facilitate economic integration in APEC regions and to vitalize innovative business applications in each economic entity.
Chinese Taipei has long established the foundation for the development of e-commerce and been equipped with the excellent conditions for growing social commerce. Hence, on the multi-year basis, the representatives of Ministry of Justice, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA) and, Bureau of Foreign Trade collectively attended 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) First Senior Officials Meeting and Related Meetings held by Peru in South America in February.
The Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA) represented Chinese Taipei proposed a project to Electronic Commerce Steering Group(ECSG) under APEC structure for promoting the social commerce cooperation in Asia Pacific area. Chinese Taipei was expecting to hold an international conference, IDEAS Show, at APEC Social e-Commerce in July 2016. Starting from APEC economic entities, Chinese Taipei gradually enlarged the social commerce cooperation in Asia Pacific area and expected to collectively promote the social commerce market specifically for the region with the other APEC members.
Chinese Taipei will then invite social commerce startup teams from various APEC member entities. Those teams will have the opportunities to discuss Asia Pacific social e-commerce matters with Chinese Taipei experts and scholars in related industries and are expecting to participate in idea exchanging forums as well as events such as Demo Day etc. It is likely that the various economic entities would unselfishly share information regarding current situation, bottleneck, and future trend of promoting commerce application technologies in their regions. That could lead to benefit APEC member economic entities growing up new social commerce business models so as the regional economy cooperation. More specifically, this program targets at vitalizing innovative commerce applications of each economic entity and has gained collective support from 6 economic entities including the Philippines, Peru, Russia, Vietnam, America, and China and was passed at ECSG.
Commissioned by Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and held by Innovative DigiTech-Enabled Applications & Services Institute of III, IDEAS Show is about to enter its 9th year. Over the past 8 years, there were 168 III incubated teams shined in the international startup showcases, including : Whoscall、Amorize Technologies …etc, 4 international mergers and acquisitions that brought 6.115 billion NTDs. IDEAS Show is now internationally well-known so that our representatives find it effortless to establish collaboration channels with the other APEC members during the show such as China and Singapore.
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