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The 4th Annual Forum on City
Informatization in the Asia-Pacific Region (CIAPR IV) was held in
Shanghai, China from 20 to 22 May 2004. The forum was co-organized
and sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA),
and was co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations
Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (UN/ICT/TF),
the State Council Informatization Office of China, the Ministry of
Science and Technology of China, the Ministry of Information Industry
of China, the Ministry of Commerce of China, and the Chinese Academy
of Sciences.
Mr. Wang Yue, Director General of CICETE, accompanied by staff
of TCDC Division, attended the forum. CICETE also organized the
Session of E-commerce and Modern Logistics in partnership with Shanghai
Electronic Commerce Association.
The CIAPR IV focused on the theme of ICT for Development: The Role
of Local Government, and its attention was also placed on Global
Trends of Information Technology for Development and Its Applications
and on Information Technology for Development - the Strategies of
China. The Session of E-commerce and Modern Logistics mainly discussed
some relevant frontier issues.
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