The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), together with the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO), jointly organized the 1st Digital Bridges Symposium September 10-11, 2004 in Busan, Korea on the occasion of Asia Telecom 2004. Some 105 participants took part in the meeting, representing a range of regulatory agencies and policy-making bodies, operators, manufacturers, industry analysts, user representatives academics and others. Dr Larry Press, Professor of Information Systems at California State University, Dominguez Hills, chaired the meeting.