1. APAN/NR Organization Director : Seishi Ninomiya/NARO-NARC Deputy Directors : Shinichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD Royol Chitradon/NECTEC Shoba Ranganathan/NUS Secretary General :Shuhaimi Napis/UPM Agriculture WG –Co-Chair : Seishi Ninomiya/NARC – Co-chair : Ronnie S. Natawidjaja/UNPAD – Secretary :Pauline Fakalata/NARC Bioinfomatics WG –Co-Chair : Tan Tin Wee/NUS – Luo Jingchu/Peking Univ. –Secretary : Tan Tin Wee/NUS Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning WG –Chairs : Chris Elvidge/NOAA-NGDC – Shin-ichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD –Vice-Chairs : Genya Saito/NIAES – Pakorn Apaphant/GISTDA –Secretary : Shin-ichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD

2. Fukuoka Meeting Report Participants China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Taiwan, APRTC,MAFFIN, WMO Pre-Workshop –Utilization of Earth Monitoring Satellite (A full day) In-session Workshop –Asian Dust and Weather DB Sharing (2 slots) –Multilingual Services over Asia Pacific (3 slots) supported by JIRCAS Joint sessions –NR-DE WG Joint (1 slot) –NR-Grid WG Joint (1 slot) Regular Sessions –2 slots by EM

3. Agriculture WG Infrastructure Upgrades –Inland links and international links –contents enrichments Agricultural Grid activities –GIS applications, crop application etc. –data broker development –wireless field monitoring servers Multilingual Services over Asia Pacific –dictionary, thesaurus, ontology development –application localizer –machine translator Mirrors –Bio-, FAO, IRRI Joint projects with EM

4. EM Conclusions Digital Asia Network offers exciting new opportunities – expressions of interest in participation are sought Next steps are necessary to build on the idea of a “Shared Online Fire Information System for SE Asia” Opportunities exist for APAN forum to serve as framework for cooperation in developing a regional-scale “Asian dust” initiative (as part of broader meteorology scope) –The CEOS Grid efforts could contribute –Propose to hold the Asian Dust pre-workshop at Busan by EM with AG Interest in Grid applications is increasingly rapidly. NR and Grid WG efforts are highly complimentary. Further joint sessions will be planned