Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970609095355.5717A-100000@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:55:36 -0500 From: Jeff Huestis <mailto:Jeff-Huestis@library.wustl.edu> Subject: Invitation to Pan Asia Networking Online Conference (fwd) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
This note listed Devel-L as one of the destinations in its original header, but it seems not to have made it, so I'm forwarding it. If the original turns up, please excuse the duplication.Jeff Huestis ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 20:55:14 +1000 (EST)
>To: (GKD97, APC, Asialink, Devel-l, LaoNet, VNIT, AIM, Pactok, GNET...)
>From: Paul Wilson <mailto:pwilson@peg.apc.org>
>Subject: Invitation to Pan Asia Networking Online Conference
>
>Greetings,
>
>This message is coming to you from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where I am
>attending the IDRC's Pan Asia Networking Partners Conference.
>The following press release from IDRC relates to this conference, which
>starts here next week.
>
>Alongside the face-to-face conference will be a parallel virtual conference,
>hosted on the PAN WWW site, at "http://www.PanAsia.org.sg". The PAN site
>will be maintained around the clock during the conference, and IDRC is
>inviting anyone who is interested to visit, follow the proceedings, and
>participate.
>
>Further information is available on the site.
>
>My sincere apologies if you have received this message from more than one
>source, but i feel the widest possible participation in this virtual
>conference is important, and will certainly be welcomed by all delegates and
>by the organisers.
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul Wilson,
>Pegasus Networks,
>Australia.
>
>=================
>PRESS RELEASE
>For Immediate Release
>
>
>Mongolian Internet Experts at Datacom Host
>First Pan Asia Networking All Partners Conference
>on Information Networking for Development, Sponsored
>by the International Development Research Centre, Canada.
>
>
>120 Internet specialists, policy-makers, senior government officials,
>researchers, and members of the media from 21 countries will be arriving in
>Ulaanbaatar this week for the First Pan Asia Networking (PAN) All Partners
>Conference to be held from 10-14 June 1997.
>
>This important regional conference will consider and discuss a number of
>urgent issues related to the rapid diffusion of new information and
>communication technologies for development throughout the whole of Asia.
>
>The conference agenda will address the following topics which are related
>to the Internet:
>
>1. Immediate and future areas of cooperation among Asian research
>organizations, information resource centres, educational institutions,
>service providers and publishers which may be facilitated by Pan Asia
>Networking;
>
>2. Feasibility of establishing a consortium of Asian organizations
>to develop and manage future cooperative initiatives of Pan Asia Networking;
>
>3. Policy and legislative issues related to regulation of content, copyright
>of intellectual properties, computer security and web-publishing,
>as applied to the digital media environment spawned by the new information
>and communication technologies which drive the Internet;
>
>4. Strategies for providing remote communities with access to the Internet,
>and its new information and communication technologies;
>
>5. Methods for evaluating the impact and benefits of the new information and
>communication technologies on Asian communities;
>
>6. Increased attention to research and development for networking
>applications, policies and impacts through a programme directed at
>specific developmental problems.
>
>
>The conference will be officially opened by Dr. Dangaasurengiin
>Enkhbat, Director-General, Datacom. Mr. Galsandagvyn Nyamdavaa,
>Minister for Infrastructure Development, Mongolia will address
>the conference and officiate at its opening.
>
>Datacom, the local host for the conference, is Mongolia's sole Internet
>services provider. Over the past three years of operation Datacom has
>won much international interest and acclaim for its work in pioneering
>strategies for launching full Internet services in developing country
>settings. Datacom was the first service provider to receive support
>from Pan Asia Networking. It has also evolved to be one of the PAN's
>most successful partners. Datacom today inspires other organizations
>in the region facing similarly difficult challenges which Datacom had to
>first overcome in establishing itself in the country.
>
>Pan Asia Networking is a three year old network of research and development
>organizations drawn from across Asia. The networking operations are
>headquartered in Singapore where IDRC's Regional Office for Asia is located.
>PAN's main areas of activities are:
>
>. linking Asians and other members of the international development
>community who are involved in research and development, via the new
>information and communication technologies so that they may have
>opportunities to exchange information and experience useful to their work;
>
>. providing of e-mail services and Internet access;
>
>. building and hosting websites which contain Asian information
>on research and development;
>
>. facilitate the development of Internet technologies, systems and policies
>through the sponsoring of applied research.
>
>
>Pan Asia Networking is an initiative of the International Development
>Research Centre (IDRC) a public corporation created by the Parliament of
>Canada to help researchers and communities in the developing world find
>solutions to their social, economic, and environmental problems. IDRC
>connects people, institutions and ideas to ensure that the results it
>supports and the knowledge that research generates are shared equitably
>among its partners, North and South.
>
>ENDS
>
>
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>Paul Wilson PO Box 3220, SBBC 4101 Ph +61 7 3259 6259
>Director, Partnerships Queensland, AUSTRALIA Fax +61 7 3255 0555
>Pegasus Networks http://www.peg.apc.org
>
>
>
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