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Network of Website Administrator in Asia-Pacific Region. Yoothana Suansuk Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific 21st APAN Meeting Tokyo (2006.1.22-26). Ideas Goals. Linkage among IT people in the Asia-Pacific Region Capacity building on IT with limited resources
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Network of Website Administrator in Asia-Pacific Region Yoothana Suansuk Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific 21st APAN Meeting Tokyo (2006.1.22-26) Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Ideas Goals • Linkage among IT people in the Asia-Pacific Region • Capacity building on IT with limited resources • Relationship to other projects • Minimize use of resources • Aggregate information in order Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Background of NACA • Former UNDP/FAO Regional Project • Intergovernmental Organization since 1980 • Objective to expand development of aquaculture in Asia-Pacific Region • 16 Member Country Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Member Country in Asia-Pacific Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
NACA Program • Marine fish Aquaculture • Shrimp Farming & Environment • Aquatic Animal Health & Disease • Training Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Growth of Aquaculture • Since the first global technical conference in Kyoto in 1976, aquaculture has gained steady progress in most parts of the world. Its global growth has outstripped by a factor of 2-4 that of livestock meat production. In Asia and particularly in countries like China (1.23 million tons in 1979 to 15.31 million tons in 1996) (source FAO) Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Growth of Information too! • Publications & Research • Statistical information • News & Event • Articles & information review • etc. Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Advantage of Networking • Sharing resources among people and institutes • Co-operation and Training • Technology Transfer • No need for re-invent the wheel Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
How to manage the information • Today information content can store in digital format • Problem : How to made it available and easy to access or retrieve. • Solution : Need and indexing and Content Management System Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Role of Content Management System • Software for archive digital contents • Able to search and retrieval • Scalable and Expandable is must • Work flow to decentralize the work load Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Type of Content Management System Mambo, PHPNuke, Apache Lenya OpenCMS, eZPublished, Typo, Drupal, XOOPS, PostNuke etc. Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Type of CMS software Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Why XOOPS • Have many module for different purpose • Support multi-platform • Have active community to support • Multilingual support • Active project and continuously update • XOOPS is Open Source Software Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
XOOPS http://www.xoops.org Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Need for people know how to use • Hardware / Software not the problem • Problem : Need for people to know how to operate and made use of it. • Solution : ‘Training people in the Network to maintain information of their institute using Open Source Software.’ Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Role of NACA in IT Training • Give a guideline how to build the website using CMS • Training on Digital Publishing and prerequisite requirement. • Help Desk and provided solutions guide. Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Role of Website Administrator • Translating necessary information from their native language • Channel for support local people in their country • Sentinel Point for information exchange Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Is it sustainable ? • Today Trainee Tomorrow Trainer • Content continuously update by people from the sources • Low cost for maintain the system • Information can exchange in the network • Content can disseminate to grass root level Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Example of initial training • Initial training for staff from RIA1 institute in Vietnam • Request for training from Cantor University • Today Trainee Tomorrow Trainer • Support for growth and disseminate of information • Sustainable with least resource use Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
RIA1 http://www.ria1.org/ Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
NACA http://www.enaca.org Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
http://xoops.org.cn/ Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
http://jp.xoops.org/ Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Thank You Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)