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China, S Korea and Japan kick off IT summit

SEOUL - The Ministry of Information and Communication said today it will host a working-level meeting on information technology (IT) cooperation between South Korea, China and Japan in Seoul this week.

The meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday is the first to be held following the three nations' agreement in September last year to form a working-level committee for further cooperation in seven IT fields.

Four areas to be discussed at this week's meeting include next-generation Internet networks, information security and protection, next-generation mobile communications and telecom policy, the ministry said.

The remaining three issues - open-source software, digital broadcasting and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - will be addressed at the next meeting planned to be held in Beijing next month, according to the ministry.

Some of the issues from this week's meeting will be further dealt with at a ministerial meeting of the three nations, slated for July in Hokkaido, Japan, the ministry added.

The discussions at the meeting will also focus on mapping out cooperative measures to standardize IT technologies and to effectively guard against trans-border problems such as spam mail and misuse of information over the Internet, according to the ministry.

(Asia Pulse/Yonhap)

Mar 17, 2004

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