Pan Asia Networking Online Conference

Dania Granados (mailto:granados@LAN.VITA.ORG)
Wed, 11 Jun 1997 16:27:52 -0400 

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Date:         Wed, 11 Jun 1997 16:27:52 -0400
From: Dania Granados <mailto:granados@LAN.VITA.ORG>
Subject:      Pan Asia Networking Online Conference
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU


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.


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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






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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