As part of the FY 2005 joint Sino-Japanese research project carried out with the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, a crisis management seminar entitled ‘Crisis Management in the Information Age’ was held in three cities in China. The October 17 seminar was held at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing, the October 19 seminar at the Golden Emperor Hotel in Tianjin, and the October 21 seminar at the Shangri-La Hotel in Qingdao. Each seminar featured frank exchanges of views, and was attended by members of each city’s Olympic Committee and government officials in charge of crisis management.

Program

Chinese speakers

1. ‘Responses and Roles of the News Media in Crisis Management’
   Mingjie Yang, Director Associate, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
2. ‘Future Trends and State of Crisis Management’
   Li Zhang, Director, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, Crisis Management and Response Research Center
3. ‘Public Transport Systems in Crisis Management’
   Haiying Wang, Director, Beijing Municipal Public Safety Bureau, Public Traffic Safety Preservation Division, Command Center

Japanese speakers

1. ‘Crisis Management in the Information Age: Network-Centric Crisis Management’
   Izumi Harada, Survey Department Director and Chief Fellow, IISE
2. ‘The Latest Terrorism Crisis Management: The Future of Border Control’
   Yasuhide Yamanouchi, Professor, New Institute for Social Knowledge and Collaboration at Tama University
3. ‘Crisis Management for Massive Events: Preparing for Shanghai Expo’
   Naoki Honma, Chief Researcher, General Risk Management Department, InterRisk Research Institute & Consulting
4. ‘Crisis Management Solutions’
   Hajime Kaneko, President, NEC China
   Jun Du, Senior Vice President, NEC China

‘The Power to Create a Safe International Information Society’: Final discussion for FY 2003 joint Sino-Japanese research project