Press release
Irish Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources visits Japan
Minister Éamon Ryan visited Japan from June 18-22 meeting with the Japanese Government, successful Irish companies and their partners.
DUBLIN, IRELAND and TOKYO, JAPAN — July 10, 2008 –Minster Ryan visited Japan to promote ICT links between Ireland and Japan in areas such as wireless innovation and digital media. As well as meeting with Valista and its partner, NEC, discussions also took place with Japanese government counterparts. According to Minister Ryan, “Exchanges of ideas with Japan, one of the world’s advanced economies, are vital in our pursuit of maintaining Ireland’s position as globally competitive information and knowledge society”.
7th from the left: Mr Eamon Ryan, T.D. Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Ireland;
6th from the left: Mr. Botaro Hirosaki, Senior Executive Vice President and Member of the Board, NEC Corporation;
3rd from the right: Yutaka Nozawa, Country Manager, Japan, Valista International Limited
Valista and NEC formed a strategic partnership last year to target payments solutions business opportunities in Japan with secure and flexible payments offerings. The partnership includes joint development of the 'Value Chain' payments platform, an emerging payments platform fuelled by multi-industry offerings. The ‘Value Chain’ payments platform is being designed for deployment on the next generation network and integration of Valista’s products into NEC’s NGN service application platform.
During his stay, the Minister also visited major Japanese high technology firms which have bases in Ireland and delivered a keynote address on Japan-Ireland ICT cooperation to the Ireland Chamber of Commerce Japan’s (ICCJ) Annual Business Dinner.
Note for editors:
Ireland is a leading developer and manufacturer of ICT products and software with a broad base of international companies, including a number of global Japanese firms involved in the sector of high level ICT research. ICT-related exports account for more than one third of all Irish exports.
For more information about the partnership, please contact:
Valista®
Valista Ireland
Glencormack Business Park, Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Evanna Kearins
Director, Marketing.
Email: marketing@valista.com
Valista Japan
〒105-0001, Bureau Toranomon, 2-7-16 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Email: japan@valista.com
Tel: +81-3-5251-7061 Fax: +81-3-5251-7062
About Valista® Ltd.
Valista accelerates the growth of digital commerce with multi-channel merchandizing, payments and settlement solutions. The company enables mobile, broadband and cable operators, and media and entertainment companies to support the entire commerce ecosystem including end-to-end transaction management; advanced settlement; discounting, promotions and loyalty programs with a choice of software or managed services.
Valista specializes in managed services which enable operators to expand their markets and customize their offerings in a timely and cost efficient manner utilizing Valista’s best of breed application ValistaPlus™ software platform.
Key customers include:
America Online, Cricket, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom’s w-HA, Orange, 3, mBlox, and Orascom/Mobilink.
Website: www.valista.co.jp
Valista® and ‘accelerating commerce™’ and ‘new ways to purchase with multiple ways to pay™’, ‘payments software enabling the purchase of premium services™’, ‘ValistaPlus’, ‘PaymentsPlus’, ‘OffersPlus’, ‘SettlementPlus’ are registered trademarks and trademarks of Valista Limited. All other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners.
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