Results of Strategic Dialogue on Safer Internet Environment for Children
There were discussions at this strategic dialogue concerning the putting in place a basic framework that would bring about safety, and a chairman's report and a Tokyo Communiqué were produced as a result.
It is hoped that, as a result of this, a global approach that promotes the creation of international rules will be more strongly enhanced from now on.
Time and Place
(1) Dates: June 2 and 3, 2009
(2) Place: Hotel New Otani (Kioi-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
(3) Organizers: MIC and International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(4) Participants: Industry, research organizations, international organizations and governments, approximately 200 participants from 32 countries.
Outline
(1) Opening
In addition to inaugural remarks by host country representative, MIC Minister, Kunio Hatoyama, there were speeches by Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General, ITU, Shun Sakurai, Director-General, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC, and Professor Masao Horibe, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University.
(2) Sessions
In all of the sessions, importance of the awareness of the followings was emphasized.
a- Session 1 - The need for online security for young people
- Aggressive introduction of mobile filtering services
- Improving levels of media literacy among relevant people such as guardians and educators
b- Session 2 - How can young people be protected and taught how to become smart Information and Communication Technology (ICT) users?
- Introduction and development of effective technology, and government support
- Promotion of voluntary initiatives by the private sector
c- Session 3 - Initiatives by the state and regional governments concerning safe and secure Internet usage
- Reducing the disparity in state initiatives
- Securing safe and secure use of the Internet worldwide
d- Session 4 - Educating users so that they can use the Internet safely and securely
- Sharing information on systemic approaches and technological approaches
- Coordination between homes, regions and schools
e- Session 5 - The need for a global initiative
- Impartial support for those users who need support
- Promotion of the creation of international rules
Results of Strategic Dialogue
A Chairman's report and Tokyo Communiqué were adopted.
Furthermore, the chairman's report and the Tokyo Communiqué from this meeting will be discussed at the ITU Council and ITU Telecom Forum, scheduled to be held in October of this year, and will then be included in the discussions at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference which is scheduled to be held in October 2010.
Results of Basic Survey on the Communications and Broadcasting Industry (implemented in December 2008)
Main points of the results of the current survey
Sales for the communications and broadcasting industry in fiscal year 2007 (actual figure) came to a total of 19.0075 trillion yen (an increase of 1.6% year on year). The estimated figure for fiscal year 2008 is 19.0654 trillion yen (an increase of 0.3% year on year).
The sales breakdown for the telecommunications industry shows data transmission which is used for applications such as connecting to the Internet at 29.5% (an increase of 4.7% year on year) with data communications progressing.
Acquisition capital investment for fiscal year 2007 for the communications and broadcasting industry as a whole (actual figure) came to 2.8016 trillion yen (a drop of 0.9% year on year). The estimated figure for fiscal year 2008 is 2.6205 trillion yen (a drop of 6.5% year on year).
Outline of survey
The survey has been implemented since fiscal year 1994 in order to grasp actual conditions and trends for sales in the communications and broadcasting industry (telecommunications business and broadcasting business). From fiscal year 1994 to 2001, it was conducted as the Survey on the Communications Industry (Financial Survey of Management Entities). From fiscal year 2002 to 2007, it was conducted as the Basic Survey on the Communications Industry.
Survey targets
• Telecommunications business: All registered telecommunications operators (operators owning large-scale line installations), reported telecommunications operators (those without line installations, or those with small-scale line installations) that are stock companies with capital of more than 30 million yen.
• Commercial broadcasting business: All operators
• Cable TV broadcasting business: Stock companies with more than 10,000 drop terminals installed
• Internet-related service business: Businesses operating portal sites and servers. With regard to ASP (Application Service Providers), operators with capital greater than 30 million yen as picked up from the fiscal year 2004 corporate office statistics lists and industry lists.
1. Operator make-up (by capital, scale of employee numbers, sales for company as a whole, on a company basis)
• Communications and broadcasting business
- Looking by scale of capital, the largest number of operators (43.6%) are capitalized at 100.0 million yen to less than 1.0 billion yen, followed by those capitalized at 3.0 million yen to less than 100.0 million yen (31.1%).
- Looking by scale of employee numbers, approximately 70% (71.4%) have less than 100 employees.
- Looking by scale of sales, approximately 40% of operators (39.3%) have sales between 1.0 billion yen and less than 10.0 billion yen, followed by about 30% (27.2%) with sales between 100.0 million yen and less than 1.0 billion yen.
2. Trends in sales (business-base)
(1) Changes in sales
• Actual sales for the communications and broadcasting industry in fiscal year 2007 came to a total of 19.0075 trillion yen (an increase of 1.6% year on year). In addition, estimated sales for fiscal year 2008 came to 19.0654 trillion yen (an increase of 0.3% year on year).
(2) Changes in sales breakdown
(a) Telecommunications business
• When looking at the sales breakdown of the telecommunications business according to type of transmission, data transmission which is used for connections to the Internet and the like accounts for 29.5% (an increase of 29.5% year on year), showing that data transmission is progressing.
• Also, looking at the breakdown in sales by fixed and mobile, fixed communications accounted for 40.1% of the total (an increase of 2.8% year on year).
(b) Broadcasting business
• The breakdown of sales in the commercial broadcasting business puts television broadcasting (terrestrial) at about 80% of the total (78.3%), with satellite broadcasting (BS & CS) at about one tenth (11.3%).
• The breakdown of sales in the cable TV broadcasting business puts basic service at about 70% of the total (69.2%).
3. Capital investment (business base)
• The overall acquisition capital investment for the communication and broadcasting industry in fiscal year 2007 (actual figure) came to 2.8016 trillion yen (a drop of 0.9% year on year). Acquisition capital investment for fiscal year 2008 is estimated at 2.6205 trillion yen (a drop of 6.5% year on year).
4. Future business development
• The business fields companies are most interested in developing within the coming year include "wireless Internet access" for the telecommunications business and the cable TV broadcasting business, "digital contents creation" for the commercial broadcasting business, and "ASP" for Internet-related services business.
