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Research Reports on Cross-Border Data Flow Mechanism in the Asia-Pacific Region
This report focuses on the cross-border data flow mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region, and systematically analyzes its necessity, feasibility, existing obstacles and optimization paths. As the core driving force of the development of the global digital economy, cross-border data flow plays a key role in promoting trade growth, technological innovation and global governance. The Asia-Pacific region accounts for more than 60% of the world's GDP and have high digital trade activity in the region. The similar market demands of countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific have laid a feasible foundation for cooperation. Through comparative research, it is found that countries in the Asia-Pacific region show diverse characteristics in legal regulation, governance models, regulatory systems and data sovereignty strategies, forming differentiated paths such as self-discipline-led, mutual recognition of rules, and security priority. At present, cross-border data flow faces three core obstacles: lack of unified international rules and insufficient effectiveness of existing guidelines; the definition of privacy protection and the strictness of the institutional environment are different, and the foundation of trust is weak; industry data flow standards need to be refined urgently, and there is a gap in the supervision of non-sensitive commercial data and special industry data. This report recommends building a coordination mechanism from three aspects: first, promote the harmonization of cross-border data laws and regulations, and unify the language of protection standards and rules; second, strengthen cross-border data supervision cooperation, improve regional cooperation and the construction of data exchanges and clearing centers; third, lead the innovation of systems and mechanisms, and balance data flow and security, technological development and sovereignty maintenance.
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The World Internet Conference (WIC) was established as an international organization on July 12, 2022, headquartered in Beijing, China. It was jointly initiated by Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA), National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT), China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Alibaba Group, Tencent, and Zhijiang Lab.
