China's 'Internet Plus' pioneers new national IT model

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government

Subject China's new national IT development plan. Significance The government last month revealed an action plan called 'Internet Plus' -- an ambitious agenda of technological innovation that aims to weave information technology into all aspects of social and economic life, from smart cities and e-government to long-distance learning and healthcare. Impacts Private companies, which dominate IT, will join their state-owned counterparts as state-backed national champions. Foreign firms will face greater scrutiny and stricter security reviews; market access will be harder, especially in government procurement. There will be some new opportunities for foreign firms, but their Chinese counterparts will become more competitive internationally too. Disregard for protection of personal data will enable China to become a leader in sophisticated data analysis. Internationally, China will pursue recognition of national sovereignty as the fundamental principle for global internet governance.

scholarly journals Services procurement under the WTO's Agreement on Government Procurement: whither market access?

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANIRUDH SHINGAL
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Home Bias ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Government Procurement ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis paper studies the government procurement of services from foreign suppliers by conducting a statistical analysis of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the paper examines whether the WTO's Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) has led to greater market access for foreign suppliers in services procurement. Our results indicate that despite the GPA, the proportions of services contracts awarded to foreigners have declined over time for both countries and that in the absence of this decline, the value of services contracts awarded to foreign firms would have been more than 15 times higher in the case of Japan and nearly 68 times more in the case of Switzerland. We also find that for the same services categories, the Japanese government is not purchasing as much from abroad as its private sector is importing from the rest of the world, a finding that further points to the home-bias in that government's public purchase decisions.

Foreign firms resist India's data localisation plan

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
The Government

Subject Reform of data policies. Significance The central government is developing a new regulatory regime for data protection. The main elements likely in the regulatory push are elaborated in ‘The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018’ (PDP bill) and the accompanying report entitled ‘A Free and Fair Digital Economy’ submitted to the government in July by the Justice BN Srikrishna committee of experts. Impacts The proposals, if implemented, would increase the state’s surveillance capabilities. New rules would also force large domestic firms to share their data, somewhat encouraging smaller entrants. The government will struggle to limit the spread of fake news and misinformation, even where these trigger violence.

China's AI plan lays foundation for long-term strength

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
The Government ◽  
Intelligence Development ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Military

Subject China's AI development plans. Significance China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry received investment of 28 billion dollars last year, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. The government last July issued a Next generation artificial intelligence development plan, which sets a 1-trillion-renminbi (151-billion-dollar) 2030 target for China's core AI industry and a 10-trillion-renminbi target for related industries. A Three-year action plan for promoting development of a new generation artificial intelligence industry followed in December, setting numerous quantitative targets for 2020. Impacts Foreign AI professionals will be able to find well-paid employment in Chinese firms and institutions. Foreign firms working in AI will find eager partners and investors in China. Chinese experts will participate in international standard-setting and debates about ethics and safety. Close cooperation with the military on AI development will feed suspicion of Chinese technology firms overseas.

Factors influencing Malaysian small and medium enterprises adoption of electronic government procurement

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai-Kit Soong ◽  
Elsadig Musa Ahmed ◽  
Khong Sin Tan
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
The Government

Purpose This study aims to examine Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Adoption of electronic government procurement (EGP) in the post-introduction phase as the portal was introduced in the early year 2000. Design/methodology/approach This study integrated electronic public services into two acceptance theories (the technology acceptance model [TAM] and unified theory of acceptance and use of technology [UTAUT] framework) and having a direct measurement of the criterion. Both TAM and UTAUT models measure the behaviour intention to use and indirectly measure the criterion of actual usage along with behavioural intention. Besides, this study conducted a systematic sampling survey in SMEs located in Klang Valley (the business hub in Malaysia). Findings The results confirm that effort expectancy, performance expectancy and social influences had a direct effect on the adoption of EGP in the private sector. Rather than the original UTAUT setup, the behavioural intention would influence user behaviour. Social implications The implications and policy recommendations of these findings will be used by both SMEs and the government to improve the EGP delivery. Originality/value The gap with this study is at the time the Malaysian Government introduced e-procurement. The SMEs were quite new and had limited knowledge in the e-procurement during the introduction phase. Both SMEs and the government will use the implications and policy recommendations of these findings to improve the EGP delivery in the current post introduction phase.

Major healthcare push lies ahead for China

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Healthcare Spending ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Infectious Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Indigenous Innovation ◽  
State Bureaucracy ◽  
The Government

Subject The outlook for the healthcare sector in China. Significance The 13th Five-year Plan (2016-20), now being compiled for release later this year, will see structural reform of the health system and greater investment in healthcare. Improving healthcare is an important source of popular support for the government, and has implications too for economic growth, indigenous innovation and market access for foreign businesses. Impacts China is highly susceptible to infectious disease outbreaks; the world will depend on its health system for protection. Over-prescription of antibiotics is making China a dangerous source of antibiotic-resistance. More healthcare spending could gradually alter the balance power in the wider state bureaucracy, altering the longer-term policy outlook. China is now far better placed to deal with a contagion than it was when SARS hit in 2003.

China will lift barriers to foreign financial firms

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Shadow Banking ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Market Opening ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
China Trade ◽  
Financial Liberalisation

Subject Potential loosening of restrictions of foreign investment in the financial sector. Significance Senior officials are among the authors of a report released last month that gives policy recommendations for financial market reform, advocating broader financial market access for foreign players and a freer exchange rate. If adopted, the reforms will give foreign financial firms more control over their Chinese subsidiaries and enable them to conduct business in areas that are currently off limits to foreign investors. Impacts Broader financial market access does not guarantee a level playing field; protectionism will persist in more subtle ways. Financial market opening will not cease after the central bank's reformist governor retires; his proteges remain in key positions. Financial tightening to fight corruption, curb debt and reform shadow banking will continue, despite liberalisation vis-a-vis foreign firms. China will use financial liberalisation as a bargaining chip in US-China trade talks.

Algerian turmoil threatens the local motor industry

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
State Support ◽  
Chief Executives ◽  
Content Type ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Motor Industry ◽  
The Government ◽  
Local Motor

Subject Auto manufacturing and corruption. Significance The government on August 25 appointed judicial administrators to manage three major companies whose chief executives were detained as part of a wide-ranging anti-corruption drive, including the Tahkout Manufacturing Company, which produces cars. Local auto manufacturing -- a flagship industry under ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika -- has been badly affected by the anti-corruption campaign, with some companies struggling to pay staff and import parts. It is also threatened by concurrent new regulations introduced by the government. Impacts In the longer term, a re-evaluation of the programme of state support for the industry could threaten all manufacturers. Projects underway to build new Nissan and Peugeot plants by 2020 may be delayed or cancelled. Damage to the industry poses particular risks to the economy of the north-west, where most factories are located. Foreign firms in other sectors will be reluctant to invest in Algeria, fearing that local partners could be caught up in criminal cases.

China’s personal data protection regime takes shape

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Law ◽  
Foreign Governments ◽  
Security Inspection

Significance Once finalised and promulgated, probably sometime in late 2021 or 2022, it will be China’s first comprehensive piece of legislation to govern the collection, processing and use of personal data. There are significant ramifications for domestic and foreign businesses. Impacts Security inspection requirements for cross-border transfers of personal data could have considerable importance for foreign firms. The law may be used to sanction foreign firms or retaliate against foreign governments. The law aims to settle a long-running turf war between regulators, to eliminate duplicate licensing, enforcement and inspection regimes.

Action at a distance

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Athula Ekanayake
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Sector Banks ◽  
Good Corporate Governance ◽  
Distance Control ◽  
Action At A Distance ◽  
The Government ◽  
Case Organization

Purpose By using Latour’s notion of “action at a distance” (Latour, 1987), the purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which the government acts at a distance to achieve corporate governance of public sector banks, and the extent to which accounting enables such actions of the government. Design/methodology/approach This study follows the qualitative research approach and adopts the case study research method. A major public sector bank in Sri Lanka was selected as the case organization for this study. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews with organizational participants and document study. Findings The study provides evidence to suggest that inscriptions produced through four areas of accounting, namely external reporting, external auditing, management accounting and internal auditing, have the capacity to develop strong explanations enabling action at a distance and good corporate governance in the case organization. The study also provides evidence to show how the role of accounting in long-distance control and corporate governance in the case organization is influenced by various contextual factors. In particular, the study finds that undue government interference over the case organization to gain the long-distance control have resulted in deteriorating the level of corporate governance. Research limitations/implications The findings support the literature that examines the accounting in its social context. Practical implications The findings suggest that actors should be allowed to operate independently, particularly without political expedience and undue influences from pressure groups, which ensure effective utilization of accounting inscriptions by the actors in long-distance control as well as good corporate governance of public sector banks. Originality/value Although research into accounting in public sector organizations has gained considerable importance in recent times, those studies examining public sector banks are still lacking. The paper aims to fill this gap.

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