1. ASTRENA’s Project Proponent
An ASEAN SCIRD Project
Presented by:
Dr. TAN Tin Wee
ASTRENA’s Project Proponent
EUSEA2006, 19 June 2006, Singapore

2. 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

4. Network Infrastructure
ASTRENA Framework
Life Science Vertical
Bioinformatics
Physical Sciences
LHC project
HealthCare
Remote
Sensing/
Meteorol
GeoInformatics
Applications
Services
Resources
Network Infrastructure

5. 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

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

11. APAN
TransPAC

12. APBioNet
ASTRENA
S* Alliance
BioUser
BioGrid
SEAGridForum
TEIN2-APAN

13. First ASTRENA Meeting (ASTRENA-1) and Workshop on ASEAN Research and Education Networks 23 April 2006 Ministry of Development Brunei Darussalam

14. 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

15. ASTRENA’s Objectives
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

16. ASTRENA’s Objectives
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

17. ASTRENA’s Objectives
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.
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.

18. ASTRENA’s Objectives
ASTRENA-endorsed Projects to proceed on an ongoing basis
ASTRENA-endorsed Events to proceed on an ongoing basis

19. ASTRENA-1 Endorsed Projects
ASTRENA Secretariat.
ASTRENA Environment Surveillance Initiative.
ASTRENA Access Grid.
ASTRENA DataGrid
ASTRENA BioHRD.

20. ASTRENA-1 Planned Meetings
May ASTRENA-APBioNet BioGrid Workshop Event - during APBioNet Workshop, 16 May 2006 at GridAsia2006 Singapore
June ASTRENA-TEIN2-ASEM session - during TEIN2-ASEM meeting, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 7 June 2006
July ASTRENA-APAN session - during the 22nd APAN meeting, Singapore, July 2006

21. ASTREN-1A Planned Meetings
August ASTRENA-COST meeting - during COST52, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2006 follow by ASTRENA Ministerial 4th IAMMST
December ASTRENA-BioGrid discussion - during the ASEAN-India Bioinformatics HRD, Delhi, India, December 2006.
January 2007 ASTRENA-2 General Meeting at 23rd APAN Meeting, Manila Philippines.

22. Asian Representatives to TEIN2
ASTRENA plans to work with them for future ASTRENA meetings:
China – CERNET
  - Chinese NREN and TEIN2 representative
Korea - KISDI  -
Korea Information Strategy Development Institute

23. European Representatives to TEIN2
Efforts are planned/in progress to link up with them:
DANTE - EU’s TEIN2 manager
RENATER  - French NREN
SURFnet   - NREN in the Netherlands
UKERNA  JANET - United Kingdom NREN

24. 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, May, Singapore
TEIN2, 10th Technical Committee Meeting, 7 June, Halong, Viet Nam, Invitation to do brief presentation
EUSEA2006, June, Singapore, Invitation to do brief presentation

25. SEAGF

26. ASEAN Events involving ASTRENA participants
23 April 2006
ASTRENA-1 cum Workshop on ASEAN 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
17-21 July 06
22nd APAN Meeting
Mid2006
BioGrid Meeting planned
Thailand
Aug2006
COST52
Malaysia

27. NGO Partners and Industry

28. Industry Support and Endorsement
Sun Microsystems APSTC
KOOPrime
Progeniq

29. 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

30. 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

31. THANK YOU!