Digital Economy

Impact of Internet and Information and Communication Technologies on the business management arena.

Gender Equality

It is referred to a fair treatment of men and women, according to their corresponding needs.

Direct export

Towards small businesses or shops in international markets.

Indirect export

Provides input and finished goods to businesses that are already exporting

Gender

Referred to a series of roles, relationships, personality characteristics, attitudes, behaviors, values, relative power and influence that have been socially constructed, and that society assigns to both sexes in a different manner.

MSMEs

Micro, small and medium enterprises.

ITC: Information Technologies and Communication

They are part of emerging technologies related to the use of information systems to store, process and disseminate all kinds of information with different objectives.

ABAC: APEC Business Advisory Council

Established in 1995, this is a permanent council composed of up to three senior business people from each member economy to provide advice on implementation of APEC action plans and on other specific business sector priorities.

Established in 2005, APEC’s Anti-Corruption and Transparency Expert Task Force (ACT) is made up of law enforcement officials from APEC member economies.

AEMM: APEC Education Ministerial Meeting

Ministerial Sectorial meeting carried out by the first time in 1992, in Washington, United States.

AELM: APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting

Since 1993, the annual meeting of Heads of State and/or government from APEC Economies. Declarations from these meetings set the thematic and political agenda of the forum.

AEPR: APEC Economic Policy Report

Publication from the Economic Committee regarding the APEC’s Structural Reform Agenda.

AFS APEC Food System

Created in 1999, it is an action implemented by all APEC fora and economies to encourage the development of rural infrastructure, promote trade of food products and the dissemination of technological progress on food manufacture and processing.

AICST: APEC International Centre for Sustainable Tourism

TWG initiative approved during the 2nd TMM in Mexico (July 2002), aiming at creating a cooperation center dedicated to important topics related to tourism and creating a link so that governments, organizations and universities work together to improve this industry throughout the APEC region.

AMM: Annual Ministerial Meeting

Created in 1989, these annual meetings of Ministers in Charge of Trade and Foreign Affairs from APEC economies.

APWINC: Asian Pacific Women´s Information Network Center

Organization that promotes the use of multimedia applications and information technologies among Asia Pacific women.

ASC: APEC Study Centers

Were established in 1993 as part of the APEC Leaders’ Education Initiative.  Currently there are ASCs in 19 APEC Member Economies, made up of some 100 universities, research centers and centers of academic excellence across the APEC region.

BPA: Bali Plan of Action

Plan agreed during the 2nd AOMM, in Bali, Indonesia (September 2005).  It contains practical commitments for the 2006-2009 period on topics related to the ocean.

CEO Summit: Chief Executive Officers´ Summit

Provides business leaders a platform to deliberate on solutions applicable to sustainable development and reaffirming the role o businesses in the region.

CFPN: Cultural Focal Point Network

APEC Forum dissolved in 2007.  It promoted cultural Exchange among Member Economies with the aim of strengthening the community idea within the Asia-Pacific.

CTI: Committee on Trade and Investment

Was established in 1993 as a result of a Declaration on a Trade and Investment Framework to increase economic activity and facilitate the flow of goods and services among member economies.  This committee coordinates APEC’s work on the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment.

ECOTECH Economic and Technical Cooperation

EDNET: Education Network

One of the three networks through which HRDWG carries out its work plan.  It promotes learning systems, education for all and strengthening of the role of education on the promotion of social, individual, economic and sustainable development.

EMM: Energy Ministers Meeting

Ministerial Sectorial meeting carried out by the first time in 1996, in Sydney, Australia.

FMM: Finance Ministers´ Meeting

Ministerial Sectorial meeting that takes place annually from 1994.

GFPN: Gender Focal Point Network

Established in 2002, after the expiration of the SOM Ad-hoc Advisory Group on Gender Integration (AGGI), its main objective is to advice the implementation of a framework to integrate women into APEC.

IAP: Individual Action Plan ISPS Code

Document that annually reports the economies’ progress towards meeting the Bogor Goals.

IPR-GT: Intellectual Property Rights Get Together

Renamed in 1997 as IPEG, it works to address the necessary work regarding intellectual property rights matters from the Osaka Action Agenda (OAA).

LAISR: Leaders´ Agenda to Implement Structural Reform

Work plan to implement structural reform (internal constraints) that supplements APEC work on trade liberalization and investments.

LSIF: Life Science Innovation Forum

Since 2003, forum where government officials and senior level representatives work on topics of common interest.

One of networks through which HRDWG carries out its work program.  It promotes strong and flexible labor markets and strengthens social protection.

MRT: Ministers Responsible for Trade

Trade Ministerial Meeting.  The first meeting took place in 1994 and since 1996 it takes place every year.

MTF: Mining Task Force

Established in 2007 as a unique and cohesive forum within APEC that aims at improving the outputs from mining and the trade of minerals and metals in the APEC region.

OAA: Osaka Action Agenda

APEC Economic Leaders adopted the Osaka Action Agenda in 1995 which established the three pillars of APEC activity: trade and investment liberalization, business facilitation and economic and technical cooperation.

SFOM: Senior Finance Officials´ Meeting

Meeting of finance officials to address the topics for the Finance Ministers Process (FMP).

SMEMM: Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting

Annual sectorial meeting that is realized annually from 1994

SOM: Senior Officials´ Meeting

Meetings where Senior Officials from APEC economies prepare recommendations to the ministers.  They supervise and coordinate the work programs of the forum.  These senior officials are also named after this acronym.

SSN CBN: Social Safety Net Capacity Building Network

Promotes the effective capacity building within APEC on the area of social protection networks.

STAR: Secure Trade in the APEC Region

Initiative that aims to ensure and improve the flow of goods and people through measures to protect their loads, ships, international aviation and people in transit.

TILF: Trade and Investment Liberalization and Facilitation

It is part of the APEC pillars established in the OAA.

TMM: Tourism Ministerial Meeting

Ministerial sectorial meeting carried out by the first time in 2000, in Seoul, Korea.

WLN: Women Leaders´ Network Meeting

It works as an advisory body for the GFPN (Gender Focal Points Network).

WTO: World Trade Organization

It is the only international organization that deals with trade regulations among nations worldwide.