APAN South Asia Net Group

Charter and Organisation

26th July 2003

Objectives

Have members from academic networks in the region

Establish human networks among regional institutes

Establish Internet links within region Encourage regional research and education

co-operation Regional initiative for high-speed

intercontinental connectivity

Organisation

A regional grouping within APAN geography – AF – BD - MD

Members Academic networks in region (Ex. ERNET, LEARN)

Associate Members Academic institutes in region (Ex. BD)

Members and Associate members should (at some point) become APAN members

Organisation (cont.)

ChairmanWill represent APAN-SANG in APAN

Management CommitteeOne committee member from each

Member / Associate MemberAlternate from each member / Ass. Mem.

Working Groups to be set up as needed

Organisation (cont.)

SecretariatLEARN offers to provide secretariat for 1st

yearAPAN could provide web-site, etc.Mailing list - APANSANG

No legal organisation

Funding

No funds at presentEach member should pay membership

fees to APANAPAN will reserve 50% for APAN-SANGTo be used mainly for meetings

Meetings

Yearly APAN-SANG meetingco-locate with SANOG

Next meeting proposed in Bangalore in Jan 04

APAN-SANG members will meet annually at APAN meetingMeeting at Honolulu?next meeting – Taipei Aug 23-28 2004

Timeline

Jul 03 Inaugural meeting – Colombo Elected interim committee (till Aug 04) members

LEARN, ERNET, Tribhuvan Univ. PERN – to be confirmed BERNET – no concrete information (BD)

Associate Dhaka Univ. (BD)

Aug 03 update web page and mailing list Get members from PK and BD, formalise membership of ERNET

2003/04 prepare proposal for EU / Dante

Timeline (cont.)

Jan 04 3rd APAN-SANG meeting – Bangalore

2004 Establish personal links between academic

institutes in the region Submit proposal for intercontinental connectivity Have link from IN to JP/KR/SG Inter-regional link from South Asia – Other Region Link from IN to LK – to be evaluated

2005

Interim Committee

ChairmanGihan Dias

MembersLK - Ajantha Athukorala, Gihan Dias IN – Deepak Singh, Anil RawatNP – Binod Vaidya

APAN LiasonKilnam ChonS Ninomiya – Natural Resources

Projects

APCN – AP Climate Prediction Netwww.apcn21.netMongolia, Kazakstan, Sri Lanka, B’desh1.8GB data / day