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Oceania Net Group    

 

Chair: George McLaughlin/AARNET  [George.McLaughlin@aarnet.edu.au]   (2004.7.7 - 2006.6.30)
Secretary:

Markus Buchhorn/ANU  [Markus.Buchhorn@anu.edu.au]

APAN Staffing:    Jane Zhu/APAN Secretariat.   [jane@apan.net]

Mailing list:

oceania@apan.net

Objectives:
        The Oceania Net Group will assist in developing research and education networking activities in the Oceania region
as well as facilitating research and education networking activities with the North Asia Net Group, the South East Asia Net Group,
Hawaii, Pacific Wave and CENIC and with other Net Groups as these are established.

Scope:
 - Holding relevant meetings and workshops to advance the objectives. Meetings will be held at locations,
including at APAN meetings, as appropriate.


- Engaging with other countries in Oceania to encourage research and education activities, and collaborating and assisting in
the development of regional and global initiative which will benefit Oceania.

- Engaging with the North Asia Net Group, the South East Asia Net Group, the Central Pacific (Hawaii) and US West Coast
(California and Washington) to develop a multi-gigabit, multi-path backbone connecting the entire Asia Pacific Region
 to form the pathways that will result in the region being a major component of Global Research and Education network-based initiatives.

- Facilitating and encouraging grid and advanced communications services, advanced applications, e-science and multimedia
applications for the benefit of educators and researchers.

Membership
- Regular Member
            AARNet
            NGI-NZ

- Observers
            Potentially, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, East Timor
            As at September 2003, no Observers have been formalised

Organization:
         Oceania Net Group
           AARNet
           Oceania region
         Secretariat
           Chair - George McLaughlin/AARNET        [George.McLaughlin@aarnet.edu.au]
           Secretary/Applications - Markus Buchhorn/ANU     [Markus.Buchhorn@anu.edu.au]
           Technical/Training Advisor - John Barlow/AARNET  [John.Barlow@aarnet.edu.au]
           Events and Promotions - Graham Rees/AARNET    [GrahamRees@optushome.com.au]

            NGI-NZ Society
            
Neil James [Neil.James@stonebow.otago.ac.nz]

Events:
        Meetings(during APAN Meetings)
        Additional Meetings, Conferences and Workshops as appropriate

 *Contact George McLaughlin/AARNET  [George.McLaughlin@aarnet.edu.au]  for moreinformation.

Last Updated: 2004.7