Chair

Mr. Koji Okamura from Kyushu University, Japan

Present

1. Mr. Shuji Shinizu

2. Mr. Ho-Seong Han

3. Mr. Gree Wickham

4. Mr. Yasuo Okabe

5. Mr. James Sankar

6. Mr. Michael Wellings

7. Mr. Jim Deroest

8. Ms. Shinobu Sakurai

Secretary

Pujan

DATE: Thursday

24/1/08

Contents

1230 -1240

Chair welcomed the participants and stated the outline of the meeting.

1240 – 1340

Key participants discussed the topics according to the outline.

Outline of the Application Tech Meeting

• Report from all EGs

• medical

• HD

• E-Science

• E-Culture

• Middleware

• Discussion about extensions of e-culture and middleware

• Proposals

- Joint? of HD and medical

- etc.

Reports from all EGs

Medical

The point of the meeting is, chairs from all WGs reported WG
activities and discussed about extension e-Culture and Middleware.
Finally, the committee has decided to approve those two WG's extension.
And HDV joint workshop sessions and medical are discussed.

HD

E-Science

E-Culture

Middleware

Noted

i) Chair of e-Science raised a point of interest:

e- Science research is the main focus in the future.

ii) The mission of e-Culture: to make the research and education more active in Asia-pacific region.

iii) It is debatable whether the name of the working group needs to be changed to suit the identity management.

The meeting closed at 1335 p.m.