And APEC has spawned an industry of technical committees doing useful work in areas such as trade facilitation.
"There's just a huge number of problems," says David Jefferson, former chairman of the technical committee of the California Internet Voting Task Force and senior member of the technical staff at Compaq Computer Corp.'s Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, CA. Internet voting is already here.
He is chairman of C Holdings, Ltd., and is chairman of Bermuda Press Holdings, Ltd., a group that includes The Royal Gazette, Ltd., Bermuda Press, Ltd., Crown House Holdings, Ltd., and Office Solutions, Ltd. Thomson is a past board member of the technical committee of the Bermuda Olympic Association and past VP of the Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association.
Britain's Sally-Anne Stapleford, chairwoman of the technical committee of the International Skating Union, is threatening to sue the French judge Marie-Reine le Gougne.
"It's like having a little safe inside your PC," says Bob Meinschein, an engineering manager at Intel Research and member of the technical committee of the companies' Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, formed in 1999.
The situation is so serious that it forced the government to convene an emergency meeting of the technical committee of the national relief agency, the Disasters Management Institute or INGC chaired by the Mozambican prime Minister, Carlos Agostinho do Rosario.
The participants were mainly staff from the Ministry of Health; three of them had been involved, as members of the technical committee, in the drafting of the mental health policy.
EAK is a member of a technical committee for the registration of human medicine for the TFDA.
On the 1st of June defence lawyer Khaled Abu Bakr asked the head of a technical committee which the court asked to examine the contents of the team's hard drives, whether he was aware of any specific video which had been manipulated in order to give a false or misleading impression.
The International Skating Union also said it was "shocked" and offered "kindest thoughts" in this "time of sorrow". Coughlin was chair of the ISU athletes commission and a member of a technical committee.
