An ASEAN SCIRD Project
Presented by:
Dr. TAN Tin Wee
ASTRENA’s Project Proponent
EUSEA2006, 19 June 2006, Singapore
The ASTRENA project, proposed as Annex 16 of the report of the 30th
SCIRD meeting and endorsed by the 49th Meeting of the COST, ASEAN,
covers the following areas of VAP and APAST.
Vientiane Action Programme Areas
• To make use of existing Infrastructure and to extend it to support AVIST
• To develop ASEAN human resources in applied research including using
advanced telecommunication networks to enhance global competitiveness of
ASEAN as a whole
• To promote ASEAN-help-ASEAN programmes focusing on mobilizing existing
resources and building capacity.
• To support ASEAN integration
ASEAN Plan of Action for Sci & Tech (APAST) Thrusts and Actions
• Thrust 1 Action 3 regional network of databases to support integration
• Thrust 3 Action 16 contribute to eASEAN infrastructure for end-users and
content developers
• Thrust 4 Action 17 encourage life long learning by provision of readily
accessible resources online
• Thrust 5 Action 21 establishing ASTRENA
• Thrust 5 Action 24 e-learning network for continual education and
professional updating in S&T
ASTRENA Framework
Life Science Vertical Physical Sciences HealthCare
LHC project
Bioinformatics
Applications
Services Resources
Network Infrastructure
Remote
Sensing/
Meteorol
GeoInformatics
Collaborating ASTRENA Networks
in ASEAN and Focal Points
NREN Organization
Members
Representative/s
None
Country
CLMB countries
Indonesia REN
Basuki Suhardiman
Indonesia
MYREN
Suhaimi Napis
Malaysia
PREGINET
Denis Villorente
Philippines
SINGAREN
Francis Lee BS
Singapore
THAIREN
Putchong Uthayopas and
Kanchana Kanchanasut
Thailand
VINAREN
Nguyen Ngoc Binh
Viet Nam
http://www.myren.net.my/
http://preginet.asti.dost.gov.ph/
http://www.singaren.net.sg/
http://www.thairen.net.th/
VinaREN: www.vinaren.vn / vinaren.org.vn /
vinaren.hut.edu.vn
APBioNet
ASTRENA
S* Alliance
BioUser
BioGrid
SEAGridForum
TEIN2-APAN
First ASTRENA Meeting
(ASTRENA-1) and
Workshop on ASEAN Research and
Education Networks
23 April 2006
Ministry of Development
Brunei Darussalam
http://everest.bic.nus.edu.sg/mediawiki/index.php/ASTRENA-1
ASTRENA-1
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Draft ASTRENA Ministerial Declaration
Objectives
ASTRENA-1 Endorsed Projects
ASTRENA-1 Planned Meetings
To work with Asian Representatives to
TEIN2
• To link up with European Representatives to
TEIN2
ASTRENA’s Objectives
i.
Establishment of ASTRENA by co-opting
representatives of MYREN, MIMOS (Grid
Computing), PREGINET, SINGAREN2 and
Singapore National Grid Office, ThaiREN
(comprising UNINET and THAISARN3) and Thai
National Grid Project, NREN of Indonesia and
VINAREN of Viet Nam into an ASTRENA
committee as a forum for planning future
developments to be coordinated by ASTRENA
Secretariat as part of its charter to formulate the
principles of organizational structure of
ASTRENA
ASTRENA’s Objectives
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Initiation of an ASTRENA scheme as the
mechanism to accord ASTRENA node status to
institutions in these national research and
education networks upon satisfying ASTRENA
committee's criteria of bandwidth connectivity,
advanced internet research projects, computational
and data resources offered to ASEAN members for
sharing, contribution of online training material, etc.
to facilitate greater ASEAN identity and
integration
ASTRENA’s Objectives
iii. Co-opting of
web services such as ASTMIS
(indicators), ASTNET (S&T info), AVIST (online
educational materials) as the first common online
services provided on ASTRENA.
iv. Recruitment of each COST subcommittee to
donate a shareable resource, e.g. online
accessible database, audio-video lecture series on
their respective subject domains contributed to
AVIST as online educational material.
ASTRENA’s Objectives
v.
ASTRENA-endorsed Projects to proceed on an
ongoing basis
vi.
ASTRENA-endorsed Events to proceed on an
ongoing basis
ASTRENA-1 Endorsed Projects
1. ASTRENA Secretariat.
2. ASTRENA Environment Surveillance
Initiative.
3. ASTRENA Access Grid.
4. ASTRENA DataGrid
5. ASTRENA BioHRD.
ASTRENA-1 Planned Meetings
1. May 2006
ASTRENA-APBioNet BioGrid Workshop Event during APBioNet Workshop, 16 May 2006 at
GridAsia2006 Singapore
2. June 2006
ASTRENA-TEIN2-ASEM session - during TEIN2ASEM meeting, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 7 June 2006
3. July 2006
ASTRENA-APAN session - during the 22nd APAN
meeting, Singapore, 17-21 July 2006
ASTREN-1A Planned Meetings
4. August 2006
ASTRENA-COST meeting - during COST52, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, 21-26 August 2006 follow by
ASTRENA Ministerial Declaration @ 4th IAMMST
5. December 2006
ASTRENA-BioGrid discussion - during the ASEANIndia Bioinformatics HRD, Delhi, India, 15-16
December 2006.
6. January 2007
ASTRENA-2 General Meeting at 23rd APAN Meeting,
Manila Philippines.
Asian Representatives to TEIN2
ASTRENA plans to work with them for future
ASTRENA meetings:
• China – CERNET
http://www.edu.cn/HomePage/english/index.shtml Chinese NREN and TEIN2 representative
• Korea - KISDI
http://www.kisdi.re.kr/wwbs/eng/main.html Korea Information Strategy Development Institute
European Representatives to TEIN2
Efforts are planned/in progress to link up with them:
• DANTE http://dante.org/ - EU’s TEIN2 manager
• RENATER http://www.renater.fr/ - French NREN
• SURFnet http://www.surfnet.nl/en - NREN in the
Netherlands
• UKERNA http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/ JANET - United
Kingdom NREN
So far… since 23 April 2006
•Draft ASTRENA Ministerial Declaration and
Ministerial Briefing Document for 4th IAMMST, August,
KL, Malaysia, to finalise by 15 July
•ASEAN MCs to nominate their national Focal Point
for ASTRENA
•SEAGF, 16-19 May, Singapore
•TEIN2, 10th Technical Committee Meeting, 7 June,
Halong, Viet Nam, Invitation to do brief presentation
•EUSEA2006, 19-20 June, Singapore, Invitation to do
brief presentation
SEAGF
ASEAN Events involving
ASTRENA participants
23 April 2006
ASTRENA-1 cum Workshop on ASEAN
NRENs @ COST51 Mtg
Brunei
16 May 06
17 May 06
19 May 06
APBioNet Workshop
PC Grid Training
South East Asia Grid Forum SEAGF Mtg
@ GridAsia06
Singapore
07 June 06
TEIN2, 10th Technical Mtg
@ ASEM ICT SOM
Viet Nam
19-20 June 06
EUSEA2006 Forum on Information Society
Singapore
17-21 July 06
22nd APAN Meeting
Singapore
Mid2006
BioGrid Meeting planned
Thailand
Aug2006
ASTRENA @ COST52
Malaysia
NGO Partners and Industry
Industry Support and Endorsement
• Sun Microsystems APSTC
• KOOPrime
• Progeniq
Tie-ups and Potential Partners
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a. APBioNet bioinformatics network for Asia Pacific for shared bioinformatics
databases
b. S* Alliance for distribution of bioinformatics training material
c. International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) for liaison
d. Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) for liaison
e. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project with the physics community
f. European Bioinformatics Institute for implementation of the
Taverna/myGrid workflow system
g. International Symposium for Life Science Grid Computing for liaison and
joint conference
h. Global Grid Forum (GGF) for discussion on how to implement
ASTRENAgrid
i. Asia Pacific Network Information Centre for liaison and discussion on how
to set up E-NUM framework over ASTRENA
j. Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networks (CCIRN)
for liaison and representation at the most extensive advanced networking body
in the world
k. Asia Pacific Development Information Programme APDIP-UNDP for
liaison and collaborative project.
l. AVIST, ASTNET and ASTMIS
ASEAN+3, TEIN2, TEIN3 collaborations as a sustainable development
Cooperation with Europe
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Seeking opportunities for collaboration
Exchange of Letters of Intent to collaborate
Memorandum of Understanding
Scientific Exchange Programme and Visits
Access Grid Guest Lectures from European Speakers in ASEAN
Training and Capacity Building with AVIST
S&T Database with ASTNET and Indicators with ASTMIS
Joint Scientific and Technology Projects
THANK YOU!