An ASEAN SCIRD Project Presented by: Dr. TAN Tin Wee ASTRENA’s Project Proponent

1. An ASEAN SCIRD Project Presented by: Dr. TAN Tin Wee ASTRENA’s Project Proponent EUSEA2006, 19 June 2006, Singapore

2. The ASTRENA project, proposed as Annex 16 of the report of the 30th SCIRD meeting and endorsed by the 49th Meeting of the COST, ASEAN, covers the following areas of VAP and APAST. Vientiane Action Programme Areas • To make use of existing Infrastructure and to extend it to support AVIST • To develop ASEAN human resources in applied research including using advanced telecommunication networks to enhance global competitiveness of ASEAN as a whole • To promote ASEAN-help-ASEAN programmes focusing on mobilizing existing resources and building capacity. • To support ASEAN integration ASEAN Plan of Action for Sci & Tech (APAST) Thrusts and Actions • Thrust 1 Action 3 regional network of databases to support integration • Thrust 3 Action 16 contribute to eASEAN infrastructure for end-users and content developers • Thrust 4 Action 17 encourage life long learning by provision of readily accessible resources online • Thrust 5 Action 21 establishing ASTRENA • Thrust 5 Action 24 e-learning network for continual education and professional updating in S&T

4. ASTRENA Framework Life Science Vertical Bioinformatics Physical Sciences LHC project HealthCare Remote Sensing/ Meteorol GeoInformatics Applications Services Resources Network Infrastructure

5. Collaborating ASTRENA Networks in ASEAN and Focal Points

6. http://www.myren.net.my/

7. http://preginet.asti.dost.gov.ph/

8. http://www.singaren.net.sg/

9. http://www.thairen.net.th/

10. VinaREN: www.vinaren.vn / vinaren.org.vn / vinaren.hut.edu.vn

11. APAN TransPAC

12. APBioNet ASTRENA S* Alliance BioUser BioGrid SEAGridForum TEIN2-APAN

13. First ASTRENA Meeting(ASTRENA-1) and Workshop on ASEAN Research and Education Networks23 April 2006Ministry of DevelopmentBrunei Darussalamhttp://everest.bic.nus.edu.sg/mediawiki/index.php/ASTRENA-1

14. ASTRENA-1 • Draft ASTRENA Ministerial Declaration • Objectives • ASTRENA-1 Endorsed Projects • ASTRENA-1 Planned Meetings • To work with Asian Representatives to TEIN2 • To link up with European Representatives to TEIN2

15. ASTRENA’s Objectives • Establishment of ASTRENA by co-opting representatives of MYREN, MIMOS (Grid Computing), PREGINET, SINGAREN2 and Singapore National Grid Office, ThaiREN (comprising UNINET and THAISARN3) and Thai National Grid Project, NREN of Indonesia and VINAREN of Viet Nam into an ASTRENA committee as a forum for planning future developments to be coordinated by ASTRENA Secretariat as part of its charter to formulate the principles of organizational structure of ASTRENA

16. ASTRENA’s Objectives • Initiation of an ASTRENA scheme as the mechanism to accord ASTRENA node status to institutions in these national research and education networks upon satisfying ASTRENA committee's criteria of bandwidth connectivity, advanced internet research projects, computational and data resources offered to ASEAN members for sharing, contribution of online training material, etc. to facilitate greater ASEAN identity and integration

17. ASTRENA’s Objectives • Co-opting of web services such as ASTMIS (indicators), ASTNET (S&T info), AVIST (online educational materials) as the first common online services provided on ASTRENA. • Recruitment of each COST subcommittee to donate a shareable resource, e.g. online accessible database, audio-video lecture series on their respective subject domains contributed to AVIST as online educational material.

18. ASTRENA’s Objectives • ASTRENA-endorsed Projects to proceed on an ongoing basis • ASTRENA-endorsed Events to proceed on an ongoing basis

19. ASTRENA-1 Endorsed Projects • ASTRENA Secretariat. • ASTRENA Environment Surveillance Initiative. • ASTRENA Access Grid. • ASTRENA DataGrid • ASTRENA BioHRD.

20. ASTRENA-1 Planned Meetings • May 2006ASTRENA-APBioNet BioGrid Workshop Event - during APBioNet Workshop, 16 May 2006 at GridAsia2006 Singapore • June 2006ASTRENA-TEIN2-ASEM session - during TEIN2-ASEM meeting, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 7 June 2006 • July 2006ASTRENA-APAN session - during the 22nd APAN meeting, Singapore, 17-21 July 2006

21. ASTREN-1A Planned Meetings • August 2006ASTRENA-COST meeting - during COST52, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21-26 August 2006 follow by ASTRENA Ministerial Declaration @ 4th IAMMST • December 2006ASTRENA-BioGrid discussion - during the ASEAN-India Bioinformatics HRD, Delhi, India, 15-16 December 2006. • January 2007ASTRENA-2 General Meeting at 23rd APAN Meeting, Manila Philippines.

22. Asian Representatives to TEIN2 ASTRENA plans to work with them for future ASTRENA meetings: • China – CERNET http://www.edu.cn/HomePage/english/index.shtml - Chinese NREN and TEIN2 representative • Korea - KISDI http://www.kisdi.re.kr/wwbs/eng/main.html - Korea Information Strategy Development Institute

23. European Representatives to TEIN2 Efforts are planned/in progress to link up with them: • DANTE http://dante.org/ - EU’s TEIN2 manager • RENATERhttp://www.renater.fr/ - French NREN • SURFnethttp://www.surfnet.nl/en - NREN in the Netherlands • UKERNAhttp://www.ukerna.ac.uk/ JANET - United Kingdom NREN

24. So far… since 23 April 2006 Draft ASTRENA Ministerial Declaration and Ministerial Briefing Document for 4th IAMMST, August, KL, Malaysia, to finalise by 15 July ASEAN MCs to nominate their national Focal Point for ASTRENA SEAGF, 16-19 May, Singapore TEIN2, 10th Technical Committee Meeting, 7 June, Halong, Viet Nam, Invitation to do brief presentation EUSEA2006, 19-20 June, Singapore, Invitation to do brief presentation

25. SEAGF

26. ASEAN Events involving ASTRENA participants

27. NGO Partners and Industry

28. Industry Support and Endorsement • Sun Microsystems APSTC • KOOPrime • Progeniq

29. Tie-ups and Potential Partners • a. APBioNet bioinformatics network for Asia Pacific for shared bioinformatics databases • b. S* Alliance for distribution of bioinformatics training material • c. International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) for liaison • d. Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) for liaison • e. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project with the physics community • f. European Bioinformatics Institute for implementation of the Taverna/myGrid workflow system • g. International Symposium for Life Science Grid Computing for liaison and joint conference • h. Global Grid Forum (GGF) for discussion on how to implement ASTRENAgrid • i. Asia Pacific Network Information Centre for liaison and discussion on how to set up E-NUM framework over ASTRENA • j. Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networks (CCIRN) for liaison and representation at the most extensive advanced networking body in the world • k. Asia Pacific Development Information Programme APDIP-UNDP for liaison and collaborative project. • l. AVIST, ASTNET and ASTMIS ASEAN+3, TEIN2, TEIN3 collaborations as a sustainable development

30. Cooperation with Europe • Seeking opportunities for collaboration • Exchange of Letters of Intent to collaborate • Memorandum of Understanding • Scientific Exchange Programme and Visits • Access Grid Guest Lectures from European Speakers in ASEAN • Training and Capacity Building with AVIST • S&T Database with ASTNET and Indicators with ASTMIS • Joint Scientific and Technology Projects

31. THANK YOU!