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The 9th Asia Pacific Next Generation Camp:
"Build the Innovative Next Generation in Asia-Pacific"

^{Important Notice:

Due to a sudden problem at the
local ISP on 22 January 2007, it is a possibility that certain mails have
been lost. Therefore we request those applicants who have not received any
confirmation from APNG secretariat of their applications being received, to
resend their applications to camp-fp@apng.org. Deadline has been extended to 8 February 2007.}

Call For Papers

The Working Groups in the 9th APNG camp are now seeking call for papers (CFPs). Interested applicants to the camp are welcome to present their research and ideas in the working group that they are highly interested in. The details of each WG is below.

For the application requirements and the selection criteria, please refer to our Fellowship Announcement. The deadline for submitting applications has been extended to 8 February 2007.

Working Group on Internet Technology
Working Group on Internet Culture and Blog
Working Group on e-Learning and Live-E
Working Group on Disaster Management and e-Health
Working Group on e-Commerce and Business Start-up

Working Group (WG) on Internet Technology

Introduction

Internet Technology Working Group is from all over Asia Pacific region who get together to discuss and share current and future Internet Technologies with their experience in the region.

During the meetings, members of this group present the most popular internet technologies in their particular country, along with its application, benefits and progress within the economy, after which , the floor is open to the other participants.
Discussions include applying the particular technology to one’s own country, brainstorming, voicing opinions, and suggesting various ways in which to improve the technology from all perspectives.

It will be used to create an online environment to inform, connect, and empower the Asia Pacific Region People.

Topics

A particular technology does not have to be limited to one country, or even to the Asia Pacific region, alone – Internet technology can be used around the globe.

Topics that were discussed during the previous camps include:

IPV6
IDN: RFC, IDNA
DNS
ENUM
SIP
Network Management
Mobile Communications
VoIP Technology
Wireless Technology
Internet Security
P2P Networking
Multicast

Working Group on Internet Culture and Blog

Introduction

“Working Group on Internet Culture and Blogs” 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.

WG on Internet culture also asserts that “Blogging” describes a positive way to share thoughts and exchange different point of views on Internet. This WG therefore highlight the positive undertone of blogs and make its influence better understood through sharing personal experiences during the camp.

WG on Internet Culture believes that while Internet virtually connects communities across the region it still poses significant challenges to the same population in a variety of social dimensions.

APNG Camp would like to invite those candidates who are interested to present their professional or academic research experiences regarding Internet and culture fusion in Asia Pacific attempting to bring together a complete spectrum of social issues encountered regionally.

Topics

In the past few years, WG on Internet Culture and Blogs has discussed about development of virtual community, creation of Blogs in countries, change of youth language and collective cooperation online/offline and need for local language technology.

In the 9th camp, WG on Internet Culture would emphasis more on local case studies highlighting Internet as a medium of development while also studying its region wide effects 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
- Collective Cooperation on-line/off-line
Technical and Social Issues in Internet Localization
Digital Technology and Implications on Culture
- Digital Technology and Identity
- Internet and Youth Culture
- Gender Issues
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 (WG) on e-Learning and Live E!

Introduction to e-Learning

The working group (WG) on e-Learning and Live E! aims to bring together people who have concerns for the use of Internet in education and who have interests to consist sensor network to share environment data. It is the target of this WG to introduce various approaches of e-learning where contents are shared through the Internet.

Topics for e-Learning and Live E!

The WG would like to encourage participation in the following broad themes:

e-Learning practices
- Online teaching and learning
- e-Learning in classrooms
- e-Learning for empowering workers (especially for the rural folks and Farmers)
- e-Learning for undergraduate and postgraduate students
Education of informatics and communication technologies
- Learning ICT in schools
- Technology training in higher education
Technologies for education and training
- Tools for learning-innovations and practices (video conferencing, websites, online archives etc)
- Instructional design and e-learning contents
- Quality standards in e-content
Current status and future trends of e-Learning
- The current status and practice of e-Learning in applicant’s country
- Emerging technologies & practices
Current status and future trends of Sensor networks
- Education using data on sensor network
- Other application with the open sensor network
Live E! project and its expansion in AP region
- Technology to share data from global sensor network
- Application and effect by using global or local sensor network

Introduction to live E! Project

Furthermore, this WG also aims to disseminate information about the Live E! Project in Japan (http://www.live-e.org), which uses mesh-networks of distributed sensors for digital monitoring of meteorological phenomenon. The WG also intends to have discussions on the commercial, educational and policy aspects of this project.

Working Group on Natural Disaster recovery Management and e- Health

Introduction

This work group was introduced to APNG at the 6th 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 With Tsunami, Governments and individuals all realized the lack of IT solutions to prevent, mitigate and manage disasters. Since the issues addressed by this working group are global to any disaster and not specific to Tsunami, disaster management working group will address any issue relevant to ICT and disasters. With large scale disasters occurring so frequently in the recent past, 7th camp and 8th also hosted disaster management as a separate working group.

The 8th camp witnessed presentations on disaster management applications that were deployed in various disasters including the recent 2005 Kashmir/Pakistan earthquake, Guinsaugon landslides disaster in Philippines 2006, and the Jogjakarta Earthquake in Indonesia 2006.

Goal of the DM working group for the 9th Camp:

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.
Special focus on pandemics with emphasis on the avian flue.
In the event of a pandemic like avian flue face to face consulting is prohibited. Therefore the only option is to use ICT.
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.
Brainstorm on practical ways of how ICT can help in a disaster.
E.g. a solution that totally relies on the Internet will most probably fail in a disaster as the infrastructure would be damaged by the disaster.
Identify other project areas that could collaborate with DM.
E.g. The e-live project
Disaster Management and Research.
This a practical way of contributing to the community. If we can develop a test bed for DM experts to perform simulations, test out their optimization algorithms, it will fill a great gap.
Disaster preparedness and pre- disaster situation monitoring.

Topics for Disaster Management Working Group:

Disaster Management Standards
Disaster Management and Ontology
Disaster Management Hardware/Software
Disaster Management deployment case studies
Disaster Management and Data collection E.g. use of hand held devices, OCR
Disaster Management and distributed , disconnected mode
Disaster Management and Alerting standards and technologies E.g : Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
Disaster Management and GIS
Disaster Management and sensor networks
Disaster Management and Biometrics
Disaster Management and LION (Localization. And ...)
Disaster Management and Research
Disaster Management Systems and privacy issues.

Participants are required to submit a paper and presentation if they want to be included in the disaster management working group. They are recommended to compile their material under the above topics, but are not limited to those.

They can submit under another theme and the working group committee will decide the relevance to disaster management.

Working Group on e-Commerce and Business Start-up

Introduction

E-commerce applications were primarily focused on handling monetary transactions and managing business catalogs a few years ago. But in the real world, with the growth of internet and communication technology e-commerce is going beyond transaction support to include content management, personalization, integration, and e-marketplace enablement. E-Commerce and Business Start-up is relatively a new working group in the APNG camp history. In last APNG camp, examples, experiences, observations or business models for the Asia Pacific Region were discussed and shared among the members and participants. In the next Camp Special attention will be given to the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics aspects of e-commerce. For instance, mobile computing, distributed intelligence, real-time optimization and infrastructure developments are important system enablers for innovative e-commerce enterprises.

Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Agent Technology for E-Commerce
Formal Methods in e-commerce
Security Aspects
Mass Personalization Technologies
User Modeling and Customer Profiling
Electronic Contracting and Electronic Negotiation
Mobile E-Commerce Applications
Trust and Reputation Systems in E-Commerce
Privacy of the Stakeholders
Data Mining for E-Commerce
Semantic Web Enabled E-Commerce
Electronic Payments