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Working Group on Natural Disaster recovery Management and e- Health
Introduction
This work group was came into function at the 6th APNG camp in Kyoto Japan, as a result of the awareness caused by the massive Tsunami that affected mainly the South Asian Region countries including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and India. Governments and individuals of respective countries realized the lack of IT solutions to prevent, mitigate and manage disasters. In the 9th camp an agenda was initiated for discussing the necessity of developing alarming systems in collaboration with south Asian region countries.
This Working group also aims to integrate the e-health related issues into it. E - Health refers to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies. The main objective of this integration is to discover ways in which new technologies can be applied for the purpose of conducting remote health care activities during disaster recovery and management.
Topics
In the past few years DM workgroup was focusing following topics
- Bring an awareness of the need for DM and available standards, technologies to the participants.
- Brain storm on types of disasters, categorize them and how would IT requirement differ.
- Promote DM solutions in respective countries of the participants.
- Form a group skilled in DM solutions who can volunteer to deploy and train in the event of a disaster.
- Identify other project areas that could collaborate with DM.
E.g. The live-e project
- Efficient Disaster response system design proposal
- Applicability of sensor network under disaster scenario.
- Disaster preparedness and pre- disaster situation monitoring.
We are kindly Call for Presentations on above topics. However we may consider any other presentations on relevant projects and researches.
Working Group on Internet Culture and Blog
Introduction
Working Group on “Internet Culture and Blog” tends to explore issues in order to capture the social implications of Internet on the users in Asia Pacific region. This WG facilitates a cross-cultural view exchange platform by reinforcing inter-comprehension among the participants through healthy WG discussions. However, prime focus of the WG is to study the affects of Internet on social development and culture, “blogging”, digital divide, local language e-content, role of internet policy, implications of digital technology on the ethics, culture, language, and the society at large.
APNG Camp would like to invite those candidates who are interested to present their professional or academic research experiences on development of internet and its implications in Asia Pacific attempting to bring together a complete spectrum of social issues encountered regionally.
Topics
In the 10th camp, WG on Internet Culture would emphasis on local case studies highlighting Internet as a medium of development while also studying its region wide effects/implications on culture to gauge its inherent strengths and weaknesses.
Focus areas for this WG are:
- Internet, Culture and E-Content
- Case Studies on Development through Internet
- Digital Divide
- Digital Technology and Education
- E-Health Services
- E-Banking
- Technical and Social Issues in Internet Localization
- Digital Technology and Implications on Culture
- Digital Technology and Identity
- Internet and Youth Culture
- Gender Issues
- E-Crimes
- Virtual Community
- The Blog technology and its latest bits in Asia Pacific
- Role of Internet policy
- Case studies on E-Governance and E-Democracy
Working Group on Live E! & DUMBO
Introduction
Researchers, practitioners and developers are invited to submit reports in the following theme:
Wireless Sensor networks opens a wide area of research and are now used in many military, and civilian application areas. Sensor data themselves must be useful for varieties of applications: e.g., natural disaster management, agriculture, analysis of heat island phenomena and facility control. Effective distribution of publishable data will increase the number of available sensors, resulting in accurate analysis and facilitate decision making. Sensor networking has lot of technical challenges, including operating system, device management, mobility, data expression, distribution, query, security and privacy. We also call for reports of practical applications of sensor networking. Live E! & DUMBO WG encourages the submission of presentation, associated with technologies and applications on sensor networking
Topics
- System Architecture
- Middleware and Key Component Technologies
- Practical Applications and It’s Test bed Operation
Working Group on Internet History Museum
Introduction
History of a country or a nation reflects its past culture and norms. According to the concept of Global Village introduced by Sir Arthur C. Clark (he is a Sri Lankan Citizen now), Internet is more or less an interwoven web compounding global knowledge and culture. Hence, Internet History in the Asia-Pacific is nothing but a reflection of both knowledge and cultures that region. All the documents related to the A-P Internet History in electronic format are collocated and archived to create a museum in e-format. In this process, we intend to gather information on past historical documents related to the introduction and establishment of Internet, e-mail and newsgroups/user groups in the A-P region. Internet history Museum has been created as a result of the discussions and outcomes of the APNG Next Generation Camp held in 2004 in Australia. A few papers/projects presented at the APNG camps were gathered, archived and placed in an interactive database as an initial step of the IH Museum.
Future developments:
- Collect the pioneer documents – (first ever e-mail, first protocols of Internet, first Website, first search engine, first Web Browser) details of any particular country of the A-P region.
- Collect all papers presented on e-mailing, Internet development, FTP, Blog etc. in ppt or pdf formats at the past APNG Workshops/Camps/Seminars.
- Keep all interactive tutorials and demos on the Internet History of A-P countries, as an archival treasure.
- Modernize and update existing site of the IHM to make an attractive and informative structure.
- Improve the GUI of the IHM site in order to promote its user-friendliness.
- Introduce multimedia files with audio and video capabilities with additional links.
- Improve virtuallity of the IHM in order to enhance easy accessibility.
Proposed Theme for calling papers for 10th APNG camp in IHM WG:
"Development of virtuallity in the Internet History Museum in order to meet the user requirements"
Working Group on Internet Technology
Introduction
The APNG 2008 camp seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of Internet Technology. We invite submissions on Distributed and Parallel Computing, Networks, Communications & Performance, Security and Privacy, Web and Information Systems.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed and Parallel Computing
- Grid computing
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Parallel programming languages and compilers
- Synchronization protocols
- Scheduling and load balancing
- Networks, Communications & Performance
- Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithm
- Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, and troubleshooting
- Network management and traffic engineering
- Routing, Switching, and addressing
- Security and Privacy
- Anonymity
- ? Access control
- Applied cryptography
- Identity management
- Intrusion detection
- Privacy-enhancing technology
- Trust models
- Trust management policies
- Web and Information Systems
- Browsers and user interfaces
- Search
- Semantic web
- Web engineering
- Web services
- XML and web data
- Others
- Data mining
- Middleware
- Operating system and other host support for networking
- Pervasive web and mobility
- Resource management, quality of service, and signaling
- Smartcards
- Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks
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