5th APNG Camp Report


Overview Report
The 5th APNG camp was held in a beautiful city Cairns, which is located near the famous Greater Barrier Reef, of Australia. With the tightly-coupled leadership of Tommy Matsumoto (5th APNG Chair) and Xin Liu (5th APNG Camp Chair), the highly collaboration of camp committee, namely Shi-san and Endo-san from Japan, Pyo and Kyo from Korea, Ching Chiao and myself from Taiwan, and countless intimate APNG secretarial support from Sawada-san and Deki-san, wefve reached many innovative accomplishments in this APNG camp, including 1) the first time to be held in Australia, 2) the first time to have Fellowship program to raise the diversity of camp participants, 3) the first time to extend program schedule to four full days, 4) the first time to divide working groups into four major directions such as Internet Technology, Internet Development, Internet History and Asia-Pacific Internet Business Startups, 5) and the first time to have many participants from various developing countries namely Sri Lanka, Buddan, Pakistan, India, Thailand and the Philippines.

Camp Suggestions

  1. Next camp needs better time management of each talk. A better way would be to have an alarm clock timing the speaker and a warning sign to notify the speaker of the minutes he/she still had available. Poor time management usually would lead to canceling of following activities, shifting of program schedule, and extra overhead for all camp participants.
  2. Next camp needs better program organization and arrangement. Itfs important to know what each talk could best deliver to our camp audience, therefore, our audience could also provide meaningful feedback to the speakers. Itfs also important to know how each talk is bundled within each session so that they together deliver unique and complementary information to our audience rather than redundant and dry talk.
  3. Next camp needs to video all programs for later browsing and review. Itfs important to accumulate experience and resources of each camp for a better next one. For people who fail to join the camp physically could still have the chance to enjoy the camp through online videos.


Author: Ming-Wei (Benson) Wu
Country: Taiwan