An ASEAN SCIRD Project

Presented by:

Dr. TAN Tin Wee

ASTRENA’s Project Proponent

EUSEA2006, 19 June 2006, Singapore

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

RemoteSensing/Meteorol

GeoInformatics

HealthCarePhysical SciencesLHC project

Life Science VerticalBioinformatics

ASTRENA Framework

Network Infrastructure

ResourcesServices

Applications

Collaborating ASTRENA Networks in ASEAN and Focal Points

NREN Organization Members

Representative/s Country

None CLMB countries

Indonesia REN Basuki Suhardiman Indonesia

MYREN Suhaimi Napis Malaysia

PREGINET Denis Villorente Philippines

SINGAREN Francis Lee BS Singapore

THAIREN Putchong Uthayopas and

Kanchana Kanchanasut

Thailand

VINAREN Nguyen Ngoc Binh Viet Nam

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

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

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

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

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

SEAGridForum

TEIN2-APAN

ASTRENA

BioGrid

APBioNet

BioUser

S* Alliance

First ASTRENA Meeting(ASTRENA-1) and

Workshop on ASEAN Research and Education Networks

23 April 2006Ministry of Development

Brunei Darussalam

http://everest.bic.nus.edu.sg/mediawiki/index.php/ASTRENA-1

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

ASTRENA’s Objectives

i. 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

ASTRENA’s Objectives

ii. 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

ASTRENA’s Objectives

iii. 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.

iv. 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.

ASTRENA’s Objectives

v. ASTRENA-endorsed Projects to proceed on an ongoing basis

vi. ASTRENA-endorsed Events to proceed on an

ongoing basis

ASTRENA-1 Endorsed Projects

1. ASTRENA Secretariat.

2. ASTRENA Environment Surveillance Initiative.

3. ASTRENA Access Grid.

4. ASTRENA DataGrid

5. ASTRENA BioHRD.

ASTRENA-1 Planned Meetings

1. May 2006 ASTRENA-APBioNet BioGrid Workshop Event - during APBioNet Workshop, 16 May 2006 at GridAsia2006 Singapore

2. June 2006 ASTRENA-TEIN2-ASEM session - during TEIN2-ASEM meeting, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 7 June 2006

3. July 2006 ASTRENA-APAN session - during the 22nd APAN meeting, Singapore, 17-21 July 2006

ASTREN-1A Planned Meetings

4. August 2006 ASTRENA-COST meeting - during COST52, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21-26 August 2006 follow by ASTRENA Ministerial Declaration @ 4th IAMMST

5. December 2006 ASTRENA-BioGrid discussion - during the ASEAN-India Bioinformatics HRD, Delhi, India, 15-16 December 2006.

6. January 2007ASTRENA-2 General Meeting at 23rd APAN Meeting, Manila Philippines.

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

European Representatives to TEIN2

Efforts are planned/in progress to link up with them:• DANTE http://dante.org/ - EU’s TEIN2 manager• RENATER  http://www.renater.fr/ - French NREN• SURFnet   http://www.surfnet.nl/en - NREN in the

Netherlands• UKERNA  http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/ JANET - United

Kingdom NREN

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

SEAGF

ASEAN Events involving ASTRENA participants

23 April 2006 ASTRENA-1 cum Workshop on ASEAN NRENs @ COST51 Mtg

Brunei

16 May 06

17 May 06

19 May 06

APBioNet Workshop

PC Grid Training

South East Asia Grid Forum SEAGF Mtg

@ GridAsia06

Singapore

07 June 06 TEIN2, 10th Technical Mtg

@ ASEM ICT SOM

Viet Nam

19-20 June 06 EUSEA2006 Forum on Information Society Singapore

17-21 July 06 22nd APAN Meeting Singapore

Mid2006 BioGrid Meeting planned Thailand

Aug2006 ASTRENA @ COST52 Malaysia

NGO Partners and Industry

Industry Support and Endorsement

• Sun Microsystems APSTC

• KOOPrime

• Progeniq

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

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

THANK YOU!