E-Business, IT and Telecoms

Business leaders and experts drawn from the ICC membership establish the key business positions, policies and practices on e-business, information technologies and
telecommunications through the EBITT Commission. With members who are users and providers of information technology and electronic services from both developed and
developing countries, ICC provides the ideal platform to develop global voluntary rules and best practices for these areas. Dedicated to the expansion of cross-border trade, ICC champions liberalisation of telecoms and development of infrastructures that support global online trade and the integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for economic growth and social development.

Objectives

• To promote the development of electronic business and the integration of information and communication technologies through policies, standards of practice and guidelines
  that encourage competition, growth and the secure and free flow of information.
• Formulate policies on critical telecommunications, information network security, data protection and privacy, trade-related matters, technical coordination of the Internet and
  jurisdiction and applicable law in e-commerce issues based on a consensus building process.
• Provide an industry interface on telecommunications, IT and e-business issues, with all relevant intergovernmental organisations, including: World Trade Organisation (WTO),
  World Bank, United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), UNICT related agencies and initiatives, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), G8, UN/CEFACT, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the European Parliament and Commission of the European Union (EU).

Projects for 2006

• Lead business follow-up to the UN World Summit on the Information Society as a vehicle to communicate ICC policy positions.
• Advocate ICC positions on key international initiatives including the removal of regulatory barriers to the deployment of new technologies, telecoms liberalisation, technical coordination of the Internet, information and network security, open source software, and internationalized domain names.
• Develop new policy positions and toolkits to encourage legal, regulatory and policy environments that facilitate the use of information and communication technologies for economic growth and social development.
• Increase business and consumer awareness and trust in doing business online by disseminating guidance and information on how to deal with harmful electronic communications (‘spam’). Provide business input to the EU and other initiatives on the retention of data for the purpose of fighting crime.

Commission Officers

• Chair: Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, President, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International (Jordan)
• Vice-Chairs: Joseph H. Alhadeff, Oracle (USA); Kim Ambler, Boeing Company (US); Joseph
  H Alhadeff, Oracle (US)
• Secretary: Ayesha Hassan, ICC

Task Forces

• Telecoms Policy
  Chair: Gordon Moir, VP, Legal & Regulatory, BT Global Services (UK)
• Privacy and Protection of Personal Data
  Chair: Christopher Kuner, Partner, Hunton & Williams (Belgium)
• Internet and IT Services
  Chair: Allen Miller, ITAA (US)
• Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
  Chair: Stefan Bernhard, Linklaters Lagerlöf (Sweden); Michael Hancock, Salans
  (France)
• Security and Authentication (Joint with Commission on Commercial Law & Practice)
  Co-Chairs: William B Kennair, John Venn & Sons (UK); Christiaan van der Valk, Tekki
  (Sweden)
• Electronic Contracting
  Co-Chairs: Christopher Kuner, Partner, Hunton & Williams (Belgium); Professor Charles Debattista, Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton (UK)
• Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet
  Co-Chairs: Talal Abu-Ghazaleh; Urho Ilmonen, Nokia Corporation (Finland)

For more information, please contact:

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