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China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower (May 2010)

China 2.0 at Stanford University, May 24-25, 2010

This two-day forum looks at the rise of China as a digital superpower.

May 2010 marks 15 years of China's first connection to the public Internet and 15 years of digital mobile communications. Home to 400 million online and 750 million mobile consumers, China is giving birth to innovative start-ups and established multi-billion dollar enterprises in social networking, games, video, music and e-commerce.

Companies thriving in China will increasingly shape the global digital economy, either by their sheer scale at home or through investments and mergers and acquisitions in the United States and other developed economies.

Join this invitation-only forum to meet with industry leaders from China and overseas to assess the likely future shape and implications of China's rise for consumers, industry players, investors, researchers and policy makers.

Conference Video Overviews

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China 2.0 Introduction	Video: Tencent, Taobao and Baidu	Enabling China's Mobile Market	Chinese Digital Music Scene
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TV & Online Video	e-Commerce	Online Games

	MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15	Session 1--Welcome Remarks and Introductory Presentation
	Marguerite Gong Hancock, Forum Co-Chair/Associate Director, SPRIE, Stanford University
	Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
9:15 - 10:00	Session 2--Case Studies of China 2.0 Leaders: Tencent, Taobao & Baidu
	Duncan Clark & Liu Ning, BDA China Presentation
	Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
10:00 - 10:45	Special Session--Reporting China 2.0
	Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
	Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
	Moderator: Daniel Sneider, Associate Director for Research, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
11:00 - 12:15	Session 3--Enabling China 2.0: Infrastructure, Devices and Access
	Håkan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson presentation
	Stanley Chia, Senior Technology Consultant, Vodafone Group R&D
	Moderator: Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
12.15 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15 - 2.15	Session 4--Digital Music in China
	Gary Chen, CEO, Top100.cn presentation
	Eric Priest, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon presentation
	Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
2.15 - 3.45	Session 5--China's Future TV Landscape
	Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto presentation
	Caroline Pan, Director-China Strategy Office, Intel presentation
	David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
	Moderator: Andrew Lih, Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
3.45 - 4.00	Break
4.00 - 5.30	Session 6--e-Commerce in China
	James Jianzhang Liang, Co-Founder and Chairman, Ctrip
	Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Beibao China
	Fritz Demopoulos, CEO, Qunar.com
	Moderator: Mei Fong, Wall Street Journal Correspondent & Visiting Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
5.30 - 6.30	Networking Reception
	TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2010
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Light Breakfast
9.00 - 10.30	Session 7--Online & Mobile Games
	Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
	Ben Sternberg, Executive Director, Raine Group
	Lisa Cosmas Hanson, Managing Partner & Founder, Niko Partners
	Liu Ning, Principal Analyst - New Media, BDA China
	Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
10.45 - 12.15	Session 8--Financing China 2.0: VC & IPO Outlook
	York Chen, Founding Managing Partner, iDTechVentures presentation
	Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures presentation
	Richard Hsu, Managing Director, Intel Capital China presentation
	David Lam, Managing Director, WI Harper Group presentation
	Moderator: Martin Haemmig, Senior Advisor on Venture Capital, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
12.15 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15-2:45	Session 9--How Can Global Firms Thrive In & With China
	Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Bei Bao China
	Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto
	Carter Agar, Former VP, GM, Walt Disney Internet Group (China), VP, Altius Education
	Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
	Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
3:00 - 4:30	Session 10--China 2.0 Firms: The Talent Dimension
	Mark Baldwin, CEO, Oxus and Founder, Zhaopin.com
	Kelly Sang, former General Manager, Alibaba.com Americas
	David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
	Moderator: Kyung H. Yoon, CEO, Talent Age Associates LLC
4:30 - 4:45	Wrap-up

Audience

Media & tech executives, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers, venture capitalists/private equity investors, policymakers.

Format

Presentations by the on-the-ground pioneers of China 2.0
Roundtable discussions on key issues and emerging trends
Premiere of "vox pop" video interviews of Chinese Internet users filmed in Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Xi'an
Conference highlights to be available online (subject to speaker approval)
Interactive event, including a mobile application custom-made for participants

Participation and Pricing

Participation is by invitation-only. For more information, please contact SPRIE by email at sprie-stanford@stanford.edu.

The USD $50 fee covers conference sessions and materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. A limited number of free spaces are available for current Stanford faculty, students and staff.

Agenda (subject to change)

Map and parking:

The conference is being held in the Bechtel Conference Center, located at 616 Serra Street on the first floor of Encina Hall. Free event parking is available at the Galvez Field Event Parking Lot, located at Galvez and Campus Drive East. It is less than .5 mile from the parking lot to the event. If you park at a meter, be aware that parking is $1.50/hour and is monitored from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About the B2 Bomber But Were Afraid to Ask

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 12:00 PM -Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 1:30 PM

Representing the United States Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel John Vitacca is a national defense fellow for 2009-2010 at CISAC.

John holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University, a Master of Business Administration degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Master of Arts degree in Military Operational Art and Science from Air Command and Staff College, Air University, Alabama. He is a command pilot with over 3,400 flight hours in the B-2 and B-52, qualified as both an instructor and evaluator pilot. Prior to coming to CISAC, John served in various assignments including a tour at the Pentagon as the Chief of the Global Persistent Attack Branch and the B-2/Next Generation Bomber subject matter expert. Most recently, he was the Commander of the 393d Bomb Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, one of only two operational B-2 stealth bomber squadrons in the USAF. His research at CISAC will focus on nuclear weapons policy issues.

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John Vitacca

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Representing the United States Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel John Vitacca is a national defense fellow for 2009-2010 at CISAC.

Colonel (Select) John Vitacca CISAC Visiting Scholar Speaker

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The Recent Subtraction and Prospects of Addition of Democracy in Russia - Can They at Last Get Right What We All First Got Wrong?

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | 12:00 PM -Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | 1:30 PM

Ambassador Kinsman retired from the Canadian Foreign Service in 2006. Over his 40 years of service, he was Chairman of Policy Planning and later Political Director before being named Canada's Ambassador in Moscow in 1992. He was subsequently Ambassador in Rome (1996-2000), High Commissioner in London (2000-2002), and Ambassador to the EU in Brussels (2002-2006). Earlier postings abroad included being Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York and Minister for Political Affairs in Washington. From 1985 to 1989 he was the senior federal official responsible for Cultural Affairs and Broadcasting where he was responsible for preparing the still-current Broadcasting Act, on which he continues to consult.

Today Ambassador Kinsman is a Contributing Writer for Policy Options magazine, a regular commentator for CBC News, and is published widely elsewhere, such as in the International Herald Tribune. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer in Europe and North America, and in 2007-2008 was Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. In fall, 2009 he will be a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

He has been a member of numerous Boards, including the Imperial War Museum, London, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the European Policy Centre, and several non-profit Boards, including the Council for a Community of Democracies, and the Victoria Conservatory of Music. His principal business contribution is to the Dundee Group of companies, and he sits as an independent Director on the Board of Dundee Precious Metals, Toronto.

He attended Princeton University and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. He lives on Vancouver Island with his wife Hana.

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Jeremy Kinsman Lecturer Speaker UC Berkeley

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November 2009 Dispatch - Forced Labor Redress in Japan and the United States

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Matthew Augustine

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News

Date

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:00

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We are pleased to bring you the second dispatch of the year in our series of Shorenstein APARC Dispatches. This month's piece, "Forced Labor Redress in Japan and the United States" comes from Matt Augustine, the Northeast Asian History Fellow for 2009-10 at Shorenstein APARC.

Last month, on October 23, the Nishimatsu Construction Company reached an agreement in the Tokyo Summary Court to set up a trust fund for Chinese who had been forced into labor in Japan during World War II. According to the Asahi Shimbun, the trust fund—worth ¥250 million—will compensate 360 Chinese citizens who were compelled to work at a hydroelectric power plant in Hiroshima Prefecture. Under the terms of the summary settlement, Nishimatsu acknowledged that these Chinese workers were forcibly brought to Japan and apologized for their suffering.This outcome was both overdue and unexpected, particularly since Japan's Supreme Court in 2007 rejected the original lawsuit that five Chinese plaintiffs brought against the construction company in 1998. Nishimatsu officials maintain that they want to set a new precedent for "social responsibility" in the wake of the corporation's recent scandal involving political donations. The timing of Nishimatsu's decision coincides with the rise of the new Hatoyama administration, which has promised to improve Japan's relations with China and other Asian neighbors.

Former forced laborers and their bereaved families have pursued litigation against the Japanese government and the corporations that employed them, not only in Japan but also in the United States. The Hayden Bill, which passed the California State Senate in July 1999, opened the door for Chinese and Korean victims to sue Japanese corporations and demand compensation for their hard labor in inhumane working conditions. Although the U.S. Supreme Court thus far has rejected such cases, the unresolved issue of Asian forced labor redress has now been introduced into the U.S. legal system, indicating that the United States has become involved in Japan’s historical disputes.

In fact, the United States was intimately involved in the issue of Asian forced laborers during the Allied Occupation of Japan between 1945 and 1952. U.S. Occupation forces initially attempted to retain Korean coal miners until Japanese repatriates replaced them, but riots in Hokkaido and elsewhere forced authorities to abandon this policy in November 1945. Responding to strong Korean demands, in May 1946 a military government team in Hokkaido gathered over ¥3 million worth of wages, bonuses, and death benefits owed to Korean miners. This amount was but a small fraction of the more than ¥215 million that corporations throughout Japan deposited into an account at the Bank of Japan by 1948. Occupation authorities made several unsuccessful attempts to persuade unwilling Japanese officials to pay back the financial assets owed to Koreans, while U.S. policy gradually changed to oppose reparations demands against Japan. Article 14(b) of the American-drafted San Francisco Peace Treaty signed in September 1951 waived all reparations claims, and the unpaid wage deposits of forced laborers remained a well-kept secret of the Japanese government.

When former forced laborers from South Korea and China began appearing in Japanese courts in the 1990s, their lawsuits helped to clarify the historical record of wartime abuse and postwar cover-up. Lawyers, journalists, and researchers supporting the redress movement dug up hidden official documents, such as the voluminous reports by the Foreign Ministry on Chinese forced labor and by the Welfare Ministry on the unpaid financial deposits of Korean laborers, both compiled in 1946. Although the Japanese government refuses to make such ministry reports public, the Tokyo High Court in 2005 confirmed that the state continues to hold the ¥215 million deposits, which have never been disbursed. While Japanese records remain largely closed, declassified American records can help to answer important questions, including how closely the United States was involved in the process of postwar Japan’s forgetting and neglecting Asian victims of forced labor.

An Asahi Shimbun editorial on October 24, 2009 admonished the Japanese state to take action in the wake of Nishimatsu settlement, since other corporations facing litigation have vowed not to pay reparations unless the government becomes involved. The new Hatoyama administration should first make an unambiguous apology, the editorial contends, then propose a new framework whereby the government and corporations can establish a joint trust fund to compensate former forced laborers and bereaved families. The United States can support this reconciliation process by revisiting the unresolved issue of forced labor—which also included Allied POWs—and reinterpreting the San Francisco Peace Treaty to enable these victims to file legal claims in American and international courts. Proactive U.S. involvement at the government level should also be matched by an enhanced effort toward nongovernmental cooperation between researchers in the United States and Northeast Asia. Shorenstein APARC has been contributing to this effort through its Divided Memories and Reconciliation research project, now in its third year. The Center will also host a colloquium series titled “The American Role in Northeast Asian Reconciliation” during the 2010 winter quarter.

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Shorenstein APARC Dispatches are regular bulletins designed exclusively for our friends and supporters. Written by center faculty and scholars, Shorenstein APARC Dispatches deliver timely, succinct analysis on current events and trends in Asia, often discussing their potential implications for business.

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New Challenges for Anglo-American Law and Policy on Business, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 12:00 PM -Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 1:30 PM

Professor Horrigan will be discussing recent developments in corporate governance, responsibility and sustainability under Anglo-american law. In particular, he will explain how Australia's embrace of the UK-Canadian institutional dialogue model will affect business, human rights, and corporate social responsibility. He will also be providing an update from the recent UN Secretary-General's Special Representative business and human rights session in Toronto.

Professor Bryan Horrigan is currently the Louis Waller Chair of Law and Associate Dean (Research) at Monash University’s Faculty of Law in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a long-standing law firm consultant in business and governmental areas of law and practice.

Professor Horrigan completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland and holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He has held academic and research leadership positions previously at a number of Australian universities, including Director of the National Centre for Corporate Law and Policy Research, Deputy Director of the National Institute for Governance, and Foundation Co-Director of the Centre for Comparative Law, History, and Governance.

His most recent book in the area of corporate responsibility and governance, Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century: Debates, Models, and Practices Across Government, Law, and Business, is to published internationally by UK-based Edward Elgar Publishing in the latter part of 2009. The book was commenced during his time as a Visiting Scholar at the Wharton Business School.

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Bryan Horrigan Louis Waller Chair of Law and Associate Dean (Research) Speaker Monash University’s Faculty of Law in Melbourne, Australia

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Facts and Myths in the Globalization Debate: How Our National Policies are often Misguided and How the United States Can Continue to Keep Its Global Edge

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 12:00 PM -Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 1:15 PM

Few topics provoke more heated debate than globalization. Globalization is considered essential for companies that want to survive in today's economy, but it is also blamed for job losses and the economic decline of the United States. Executives say they hire from abroad because of deficiencies in the U.S. workforce and skills shortages, while worker advocacy groups say it is all about cheap labor.

Wadhwa will discuss how the contentious public debates on globalization and outsourcing commonly use data that isn't grounded in reality. He will show why globalization and outsourcing are the new reality and how this trend will continue to build even more momentum. Finally, Wadhwa will provide concrete advice and ideas on how the United States can regain its edge in the global economy by understanding the new reality and focusing on its strengths such as entrepreneurship and innovation. By effectively harnessing its highly educated and skilled workforce, and balancing immigrant intellectual capital, the United States can continue to be the winner rather than the victim of globalization.

Vivek Wadhwa, currently a visiting scholar at UC-Berkeley, is a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and an executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. He helps students prepare for the real world, lectures in class and leads groundbreaking research projects. He advises several start-up companies, writes a column for BusinessWeek.com and contributes to several international publications. Since joining Duke in 2005, he has researched globalization, its impact on the engineering profession and the sources of the United States' competitive advantage. Mr. Wadhwa holds an MBA from New York University and a BA in Computing Studies from the Canberra University in Australia.

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Vivek Wadhwa Senior Research Associate Speaker Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

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Corporate Strategy: New Business Strategies for the 21st century - Choose and focus

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(excerpt) In our excitement over China’s ascent, we have forgotten to update our view of corporate Japan. This is understandable, because remnants of the “Old Japan” persist, and we have not yet trained ourselves to look for the “New Japan.” But the reality is that the old keiretsu no longer exist; main banks as bailout leaders have been supplemented by new laws and actors, such as equity funds; 80% of listed Japanese firms have switched to performance promotion and pay; the manufacturing industries have globalized to a point where subcontractor relations have been turned upside down; and global competition and discount mavericks have broken open the retail industry. The most important change of all is that in many industries the household names of Old Japan are no longer among the key players.

The unifying thread behind these myriad changes is the last decade’s transformation from diversification to focus. Instead of each firm like Panasonic (formerly Matsu- shita) producing all products, from toasters to semiconductors, they are focusing on “fewer, but better.” The gestation period is still underway, but the core transformation has already occurred.

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Commentary

Publication Date

November 1, 2009

Journal Publisher

Oriental Economist Report

Authors

Ulrike Schaede

Tapan Parikh: evaluating impact of various types of mobile technology

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Thu, 10/15/2009 - 12:00

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Tapan Parikh, of UC Berkeley School of Information, spoke about a number of projects that are using mobile phone based technology to give small businesses the information they need to improve productivity. He argued that voice technology has distinct advantages over text, because it overcomes challenges of illiteracy while responding to a strong need people feel to be heard.

Information is key for economic development and empowerment. But information is worthless unless it is also useable (leads to decisions the business owner can actually take), trusted (comes from a source he respects) and relevant (speaks about the issues he is facing). For information to be really empowering, it must also be two way: there must be ways for individuals to create content themselves.

Tapan described three current projects he is involved in:

Hisaab: Microfinance groups in India often suffer from poor paper based record keeping, making it difficult for the group to track loans and repayments. The Hissab software was designed with an interface suitable for those who may be illiterate and/or new to computing. The use of voice commands and responses in the local language, Tamil, prevented the software from feeling remote and inaccessible and contributed to the success of this initiative.

Avaaj Otalo: Agricultural extension workers provide advice to farmers on pests, new techniques etc to help improve yields. But often they have limited reach, visiting areas only rarely, or perhaps lacking the expertise to respond to all the problems they encounter. Avaaj Otalo is a system for farmers to access relevant and timely agricultural information over the phone. By dialing a phone number and navigating through simple audio prompts, farmers can record questions, respond to others, or access content published by agricultural experts and institutions. The service has been hugely popular, with farmers willing to spend time listening to large amounts of material to find what they want. The opportunity to be broadcast was a major attraction, reflecting the desire to be heard and to create media rather than be a passive consumer of it.

Digital ICS: Smallholders' compliance with organic, fair-trade and quality requirements is usually measured via paper based internal inspections. The data uncovered by these is vital but often lost. Digital ICS is a mobile phone based application that allows inspectors to fill out the survey digitally, enhance it with visual evidence (e.g. from camera phones) and upload it onto a web application. This is being piloted with coffee farmers in Mexico. A key finding from the work is that farmers want to know who ends up drinking their coffee, what they pay for it and what they think about it. Greater links between producers and consumers may therefore be another area for this project to investigate.

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China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower (May 2010)

Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About the B2 Bomber But Were Afraid to Ask

John Vitacca

The Recent Subtraction and Prospects of Addition of Democracy in Russia - Can They at Last Get Right What We All First Got Wrong?

November 2009 Dispatch - Forced Labor Redress in Japan and the United States

New Challenges for Anglo-American Law and Policy on Business, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Facts and Myths in the Globalization Debate: How Our National Policies are often Misguided and How the United States Can Continue to Keep Its Global Edge

Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Court in Southeast Asia

Corporate Strategy: New Business Strategies for the 21st century - Choose and focus

Tapan Parikh: evaluating impact of various types of mobile technology

Using Technology to Catalyze Large-scale Social Change

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