APAN WGs Highlights Issue 003 – Disaster Mitigation WG

APAN WGs Highlights – Disaster Mitigation WG Chair: Eric Yen (ASGC, TW), Co-Chair: Veerachai Tanpipat (HII, TH), Franz A. de Leon (ASTI, PH). Disaster Mitigation Working Group (DMWG) was initiated by the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) of the Philippines, Hydro Informatics Institute (HII) in Thailand and Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC) in […]

APAN WGs Highlights – Asia Pacific Advanced Network Medical Working Group

The medical working group was established in 2005 and has held various medical sessions at APAN, such as webinars, case conferences, and live demonstrations. In addition, onsite training programs for hospital engineers have been organized during APAN meetings. We have provided tips and techniques for venue setup and troubleshooting for telemedicine conferences in Asia and […]

APAN Survey on virtual conference management

Upon the successful conclusion of APAN52, we ran a survey to understand how APAN can improve its virtual conference management. We also wanted to evaluate the user experience on the platform that was used during the conference. The areas we covered in the survey were on scheduling, ease of usage of platforms such as Whova […]

5 minutes with Prof. Wang, Chairman of APAN

Jilong Wang Glad to be interviewed by APAN! By 2021, I participated in the work of NREN for 25 years and APAN for 20 years. Quite honestly, this interview is of great significance to me. In 1996, I began to participate in the work of CERNET when I was a PhD student in the Department […]

APAN WGs Highlights 2021 – APAN Open and Sharing Data (OSD) Working Group

APAN Open and Sharing Data (OSD) Working Group Chair: Veerachai Tanpipat (veerachai@hii.or.th,iamtanpipat@hotmail.com) Co-chair: Basuki Suhardiman (basuki@itb.ac.id) Co-chair: Eric Yen (Eric.Yen@twgrid.org) Co-chair: J. Adinarayana (adi@csre.iitb.ac.in) Co-chair: Akane Takezaki (akane@affrc.go.jp) Co-chair: Markus Buchhorn (markus@apan.net)   About OSDWG: With the fundamental problems of open data and data sharing which are huge handle to many researchers and research communities, […]

APAN WGs Highlights 2021 – Network Engineering

Network Engineering Workshop is held in every meeting, and the following engineering topics are discussed for further developments of APAN (1) Network Technologies with the operation Network technologies are discussed with the operational experiences: -Next Generation Infrastructure is one of the hot topics for high-speed networks with cost-effective solution -Global eXchange Points (GXPs) have been […]

APAN WGs Highlights 2021 – APAN IAM-TF – Identity Federations

APAN IAM-TF – Identity Federations Chair: Terry Smith [ t.smith@aaf.edu.au ] Co-Chair: Toby Chan [ toby.chan@polyu.edu.hk ] Co-Chair: William Wan [ wanl@cernet.com ] Mailing List: iam@apan.net   Over the past five years the Identity and Access Management (IAM) taskforce has been working closely with our community to improve access to research activities, research data and […]

APAN WGs Highlights 2021- AI-driven Networks Working Group (AINWG)

AI-driven Networks Working Group (AINWG) Chair: Prof. Wang-Cheol Song (Jeju National University/KOREN Forum, Korea) Co-Chair: Dr. Hidehisa Nagano (NICT, Japan) Co-Chair: Prof. Huang Xiaohong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) Recently, network technologies have become the focus of a huge transformation enabled by new models resulting from virtualization and cloud computing. This development towards […]

Universitas Islam Indonesia Hosted the 52nd Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Virtual Meeting

Universitas Islam Indonesia hosted the 52nd Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Meeting. APAN itself is an organization that connects various research and higher education institutions through a private high-speed fiber-optic network in the Asia Pacific region. APAN connects institutions through networks, and on top of it enables research collaboration, knowledge sharing, telemedicine, and natural disaster mitigation […]

The 50th Anniversary of the Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC)

Incorporated in 1970, JUCC has grown from two core members to 19 members nowadays from the Higher Education sector in Hong Kong and Macau. Throughout the past 5 decades, JUCC has successfully established itself as the platform for fostering deep collaborations among higher education member institutions and facilitating research via The Hong Kong Academic and […]