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The 7th Asia Pacific Next Generation Camp

Working Groups Call For Presentation

Overview

Working group in the 7th APNG camp is calling for presentation. Participants to the camp are welcome to present their research and ideas in the working group that they are highly interested. The deadline for WG's CFP will be May 18, 2005. Please submit the presentatio file (in .ppt) to camp-cfp@apng.org

Working Group on Internet Technologies

Introduction

This is a group where current and future Internet technologies are being discussed which includes the application of those technologies to the development of a particular economy. Anyone can choose the most popular Internet technologies and tackles one specific technology in a person's country, discuss its progress and benefits to that particular economy during the presentation.

In the working group discussion at the camp, there will be a sharing of each presentation, participants can share their own views to it and brainstorm. They can also relate the development of that particular Internet Technology from their respective countries. Moreover, they can suggest ways on how to improve the technology from all perspectives.

However, technologies are not limited to a particular country or to Asia Pacific alone. They can see other Internet Technologies around the globe that they believe will be beneficial to their countries.

topics

(some topics that were discussed in the past camps)
- IPV6
- Next Generation Internets
- IDN
- DNS
- ENUM
- SIP
- Network Management - Mobile Communications - Internet and Business Model - VoIP Technology

Working Group on Internet culture

Introduction

WG on Internet Culture concerns about the social aspect and social effect of Internet in Asia Pacific area. WG on Internet Culture believes that Internet brings people not only convenience and connection, but also many new challenges to our society. APNG Camp would like to invite those participants who're interested in sharing local experience and knowing more about current status in other countries to join our discussion. WG on Internet Culture wish to know more about the development and current status of internet culture in Asia area. Also, WG on Internet Culture would like to improve cross-culture discussion and inter-comprehension through Working Group discussion.

topics

In the past few years, WG on Internet Culture has discussed about development of virtual community, change of youth language and collective cooperation on line. During the 7th camp, WG on Internet Culture would like to focus more on digital technology and Subject, social development and culture. Following are the suggested topics/issues for presentation:

(1) Digital technology and social development :
- Digital divide
- Internet governance and policy on Internet
- E-democracy
- Digital technology and education
- Localization works
(2) Digital technology and Subject :
- Use of internet
- Digital technology and identity
- Gender and digital technology
(3) Digital technology and culture :
- Virtual community
- Collective cooperation on-line/off-line
- Digital technology and youth culture

Working Group on BLOG

Introduction

As blog plays a continuous, important role in the world today, APNG Camp has established WG on Blog. WG on BLOG was a new working group from 6th APNG Camp. The target of this is to make blog and its influence better understood through group discussion and sharing experiences during the camp. Blog, which comes from "web log" to "we blog", is not a technical term but a behavior. It describes a specific way to share thoughts and exchange different point of views on Internet. The word "blog" could be a noun or a verb, according to many bloggers. APNG Camp believes that through blogging, the gap between culture and generations would be much closer and even seamless.

topics

In the past camp, we have introduced the basic concept of blog and discussed about its definition. The blog develops so vigorously before that in the 7th camp, we hope that we could discuss various topics. Some would include:

- Setting up of blog technology
- The latest development of blog in each country
- Blogspheres in Asian Pacific region
- Other issues of blog

If you have any thought about blog, please join our Working Group during the 7th camp in Taipei, Taiwan. Upon blog's spirit of openness, everyone is welcome. Let us blog in the next camp!

Working Group on Natural Disaster Recovery Management

Introduction

This working group of APNG was introduced in the last camp which was held in Kyoto Japan due to the massive disaster which affected mostly to South Asian Region countries such as Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Malaysia. It was emphasized at the last discussion, that these countries were affected by tsunami due to lack of communication technologies and methods. Tsunami disaster recovery Management Working group mainly targeted itself to overcome the barriers in communication and how it can be done.

APNG would like to invite those participants who are interested in the local experience and to gain knowledge about the current status in the countries, to join our discussion.

Though the WG started due to the Tsunami disaster encountered last 26th December, we will focus not only on tsunami but also we would like to get more knowledge about precautionary and prevention techniques from your countries on events such as earth quakes, earth slipping, floods which were new to some countries.

topics

- Experience of the local personnel on how they faced tsunami and recovered from the incident
- Precautionary techniques -such as alarming systems
- Problems faced when trying to over come this problems
- Future plans on Disaster recovery Management

We are kindly Call for Presentations on above topics. However we may consider any other presentations on relevant projects and researches.