CALL FOR PAPERS


Working Group on Internet History Museum


"ARPANET to internet in Asia Pacific : Past , Present and Future"

Introduction

Documenting the Internet now while its creators and pioneers are still alive and able to recollect the history of the Internet is of vital importance to each country and region as well as to the individual Internet users. It will show how culture, economies and languages have evolved and the social impacts on each country.

One year of Internet history could be compared to one decade of world history. Using this scenario we have 400 years of history to capture in our unique time. Some work has been done in other regions yet no collaborative project exists and no one has yet paid any attention to the Asia Pacific region.

The AP Internet History Project will become the authoritive resource for the AP regions Internet history. This project will offer each country and culture within the AP region web space to add their history in a standardised format or to submit their information to the project for inclusion.

Future developments:

  1. Where possible obtain first hand accounts of Internet developments from all AP countries – (first e-mail, first Internet protocols, Website search engine, Web Browser, user statistics, popular social networking sites, localisation projects, DS, etc.).
  2. To include all the relevant information in a standardised template format that can be edited by the individual country or pioneer.
  3. Introduce multimedia files with audio and video capabilities with additional links.
  4. Create a social networking group of like minded individuals, researchers and participants.
  5. To form and nurture partnerships with other similar projects.

Working Group on Internet Technology


Introduction

The future of Internet Technology is about people, applications, communication and access. We need access to an appropriate application of technology, enabling communication and knowledge sharing for the society. We need to plan our Internet technology way ahead of its time so that it can cater human needs when the time comes. Internet Technology planning must be outcome- focused. It must be about what the people really NEED rather than we want. Our exploration requires a somewhat different method of investigation. While one can broadly categorize these methods into secondary or desk research and primary research, the subject lends itself to interesting, sometimes subversive investigation. The 11th APNG Camp seeks papers describing significant research contributions in the field of Internet Technology as a whole. We invite submissions on Future Internet Technology Components, Internet Humanity, Security and Privacy and Next Generation Networks.

Some of areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  1. Future Internet Technology Components
    • .Net FTP Components & SFTP Components (File Transfer Protocol)
    • Domain Name System (DNS) Components
    • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Components
    • Email Components
    • File Upload and Download Components
    • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Components
    • Instant Messaging and Chat Components
    • Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Components
    • Internet Protocol Encryption Components
    • Internet Toolkits and Component Collections
    • Miscellaneous Internet Components
    • Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Components
    • Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Components
    • Ping & ICMP Components
    • Post Office Protocol (POP3) Components
    • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Components
    • Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Components
    • Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Components
    • Socket and Winsock Components
    • Telnet Components
    • Trace Route Components
    • Whois Components
    • DTN (Delay Tolerant Networking)
    • UDL (Uni-directional Link, such as TV broadcasting and FM/AM radio broadcasting) system
  2. Internet Humanity
    • Internet Content Rating
    • Internet Content Labelling
    • Internet Contents filtering
    • Internet Content distribution channels
    • Internet Content Regulations and Policies
    • Second life
  3. Security and Privacy
    • Anonymity
    • Access control
    • Applied cryptography
    • Identity management
    • Intrusion detection
    • Privacy-enhancing technology
    • Trust models
    • Trust management policies
    • Anti-Virus
    • Authenticode
    • Internet Privacy Overviews and Tutorials
    • Internet Privacy Reference
    • Internet Ratings
    • Security Zones
    • Internet Development Glossary
  4. Next Generation Networks
    • Specialized resource services
    • Processing and storage services
    • Middleware services
    • Application-specific services
    • Content provision services that provide or broker information content
    • Interworking services for interactions with other types of applications, services, networks, protocols, or formats
    • Management services to maintain, operate, and manage communications or computing networks and services.
    • Voice Telephony
    • Data (Connectivity) Services
    • Multimedia Services
    • Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
    • Public Network Computing (PNC)
    • Unified Messaging
    • Information Brokering
    • E-Commerce
    • Call Center Services
    • Interactive gaming
    • Distributed Virtual Reality
    • Home Manager
    • Cloud Computing
    • Virtualization

Working Group on "e-Culture"


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
For the 11th APNG Camp, the e-Culture WG would emphasize on case studies highlighting ICT as a medium of development while studying its regional wide effects or implications on the cultures in Asia-Pacific to gauge its inherent strengths and weaknesses. The focus areas for the e-Culture WG include (but are not limited to):

  • e-Services like:
    • e-Learning
    • e-Health
    • e-Banking
    • e-Business
    • e-Agriculture
    • Digital Governance (e-Governance, e-Democracy)
    • e-Contents (local content, language accessibility)
  • ICT for Marginalized People
    • Digital Divide
    • Gender and ICT Issues
    • ICT for Disabilities
    • Internet accessibility
  • Internet Governance and Case studies on its implementation policies, norms, decision making procedures and emerging issues on the internet like e-Crimes
  • Case Studies on The Effects of Web 2.0 such as blogs, wikis for social networking, Virtual Communities

Working Group on Disaster Management and e-Health


Introduction

Asia and the pacific region is routinely exposed to almost every type of hazards, mainly natural. There should be a considerable scope for reducing hazards and improving disaster management in the region. In this work group we are mainly focusing how we can improve the disaster management and e-health in the region as the joint effort. Following topics were discussed in earlier camps and would like to continue further discussions on those topics.

Topics

  1. Bring an awareness of the need for DM and available standards, technologies to the participants.
  2. Brain storm on types of disasters, categorize them and how would IT requirement differ.
  3. Promote DM solutions in respective countries of the participants.
  4. Form a group skilled in DM solutions who can volunteer to deploy and train in the event of a disaster.
  5. Identify other project areas that could collaborate with DM.
    E.g. The live-e project
  6. Efficient Disaster response system design proposal
  7. Applicability of sensor network under disaster scenario.
  8. 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 Live E! & DUMBO


Introduction

<<Live E!>>
Sensor and the Internet have enabled realtime monitoring of distant locations. This technical advance can be used not only for (1) disaster management of remote areas, but also for (2) analysis of weather, air pollusion and heavy storming, (3) agriculture such as product estimation and control of water supply, (4) some businesses that are sensitive to weather information.
<<DUMBO>>
Using wireless ad-hoc networking technologies, we can easily setup a communication platform on infrastructureless environment. With satellite communication, thus developed temporal network platforms can be connected with each other, and it is expected that those networks will be used in ergent situations.

Toward the 11th APNG Camp, Live E! and DUMBO working group calls for papers that provide technical discussions and field-experiences on those themes.

Topics
The topic includes the following but not limited to:

  • sensor and the Internet
  • sensor application
  • sensor architecture
  • wireless networks
  • satellite communication
  • ad hoc networks
  • delay or disruption tolerant networks
  • openwrt
  • embedded computer
  • database management systems
  • data stream management systems
  • overlay networks
  • operational experiences on sensors
  • operational experiences on wireless networking