On 14th October 2019, WTA Annual Meeting and Task force Meeting was held in ShenZhen China, the Chaired HKSEC Hong-Kong, hosted by EBS, attending from Malaysia, Thailand, China, Hong-Kong, Chinese Taipei, Japan and also board member of CommerceNET, founding member of ATA (Founding name of WTA) from Singapore.
- Expert session: In the 14th afternoon, starting the Welcome remarks by EBS, the Opening remark by HKSEC, facilitated by SOSA, The expert session with Distinguished guests for EC field presented precious information exchanged regarding each professional field, such as Recent update for ODR By TradeSafe/Japan, Cyber security by CSM/Malaysia, Building Trust by EBS/China, The ethics of data protection by CommerceNET /Singapore and Special knowledge sharing for the Digital Intellectual Property by Prof. Zhang Ping, finally the report for EC in Thailand by Thailand government.
- Annual meeting: Following the expert session, WTA annual meeting 2019 was held with fervently discussion and approved as followings;
- The name changed WTA: For the purpose to activate widely and practically not only trust but also to trading, change name from World Trustmark Alliance to World Trustmark and trade Alliance. According to this change, Governance Rule will be modified, but not change the abbreviation of WTA.
- The Next chair and vice chair: Chinese Taipei was nominated as the next chair and all member agreed to approved as the next rotating chair. The vice chair are Tradesafe / Japan and CommerceNET / Singapore was also approved.
- Certified expert: WTA certificated honorable experts for their contribution to WTA activities.
- Mr. Mandai Eiichiro/TradeSafe, Dr. JJ Pan/SOSA, and Ms. Hasnida Zainuddin/Cyber Security Malaysia
- Members fee: The members fee as discussed in the task force meeting via video conference, options are Yearly fee, Joining fee, Sponsoring fee etc. Each has advantage or disadvantage, in any case, needs to emit feedback for the fee to the members. One is the news-letter to the members. And more additional option should be discussed.
- The Next annual meeting: 2020 Thailand, 2021 Philippines (SureSEALwill changed their name and rejoin to WTA.)
- ShenZhen 3rd internet integrity conference: WTA members were invited as guest for the conference which was hosted by EBS. Some of WTA members spoke opinions and experience as an expert in the panel discussion in the conference and contributed as presenter to the Chinese excellent EC companies.
Mandai Eiichiro
TradeSafe/ODR Room Network
Oct 18, 2019