DTTN Concept

What is the DTTN?
Community Focus
Guiding Principles for the DTTN

What is the DTTN?

The DTTN is a HKSAR government endorsed community platform that connects organisations in the trade, logistics and financial industries enabling them to exchange business documents electronically with their trading partners.

The existence of a community e-platform with defined standards and protocols will attract ASP and software vendors to develop value added services which will further improve user operational efficiency.

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Community Focus

The DTTN includes nine major communities:

1. Buyers / Importers
2. Sellers / Exporters
3. Freight forwarders including third party logistics service providers
4. Carriers / Portals (e.g. Inttra, GTNexus, Traxon)
5. Terminals
6. Government and its agencies
7. Banks and financial institutions
8. Insurance companies
9. Inspection agencies

The DTTN will co-exist with and complement offerings provided by Application Service Providers (ASPs), Software Vendors, and global service providers and will help to promote a greater take up of e-business in the region to the ultimate benefit of the commercial sectors.

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Guiding Principles for the DTTN

The DTTN is developed and operated in accordance with following guiding principles:

• Neutrality
  Provides a level-playing field without undue bias towards particular players or industry sectors.
• Non-exclusivity
  Provides fair access to all industry stakeholders without discrimination, and does not preclude some segments of stakeholders from using the DTTN.
• Transparent, accountable, and responsible operations
  Ensure subject to strict scrutiny and control regarding its transparency, accountability and responsibility for its operations. Ensures information will not be misused in any way.
• Minimum intervention to internal business process and client relationships
  Ensures the platform provides data interchange capabilities pnly and will not require organizations to change their business processes or customer relationships just to make use of the DTTN.
• Facilitate and respect market force
  Provides an infrastructure that facilitates or complements businesses and will not compete with other existing private sector initiatives over the provision of value-added services.
• Easy to access and use
  Ensures DTTN service is user-friendly, intuitive and participant centric.
• Improve overall competitiveness of Hong Kong
  Provides a low cost community infrastructure that helps improve efficiency, and the overall competitiveness of the trade and logistics industry in Hong Kong.