1. Report Fellowship Committee Meeting 23 rd APAN, Manila Meeting 2007.1.23 Chair: Rahmat Budiarto (rahmat@cs.usm.my) NAv6, USM

2. AGENDA ROLL CALL REPORT BY CHAIR DISCUSSION on FELLOWSHIP ISSUES

3. Fellowship Committee Chair: Rahmat Budiarto Co-chair: - Secretary: APAN Secretariat [sec@apan.net] Mailing List: fellowship@apan.net Committee Members: –AU Bruce Morgan /ANU –CN AnJie/CERNET –JP Kazunori Konishi/KDD –KR Chul Hee Kang/Widecom –LK Ajantha Atukorale/LEARN –MY Sureswaran Ramadass/USM –PH Denis F. Villorente/ASTI –SG Bu Sung Lee /NTU –TH Panjai /NECTEC –TW Simon C.Lin/Academia Sinica

4. Fellowship Awarded Totally 40 Fellowships awarded BD: 3 (0)PH: 6 (1) ID: 2 (0)PK: 2 (2) IN: 3 (1)TH: 4 (1) KR: 8 (0)TW: 2 (0) LK: 2 (0) Non APAN : 4 (2) MY: 3 (0) NP: 1 (0) 7 Fellows do not turn up (17.5%) Non APAN: - RU, SD, PS, IR Number of applicants: -APAN: 49 -Non APAN: 8 TOTAL:57

5. Names of absent fellows No. Name Organisation, Country 1 Muhammad Ali Iqbal PK 2 Nazeer Hussain PERN, PK 3 PHCharity Lourdes G. Laplap AIT, TH 4 Yoothana Suansuk Kasetsart Univ., TH 5 Rasid Saeed UPM Malaysia,MY 6 Nidhal A.S. Odeh UPM Malaysia,MY 7Dhananjay Singh IET Alwar Rajasthan, IN

6. Statistics(2003.01 - 2006.07) 2007.01: Manila40(33 attended) 2006.07: Singapore38 (32 attended) 2006.01 : Tokyo 29 (XX attended) 2005.08 : Taipei 34 (22 attended) 2005.01 : Bangkok 51 (44 attended) 2004.07 : Cairns 36 (30 attended) 2004.01 : Honolulu 39 (23 attended)

7. MANILA Fellowship budget (40 Fellows) No.List of paymentUS$ 1Accommodation (40fellows, 25/night, 4days) 4,000 2Allowance (50x40) 4 meals+Transportation 2,000 3Registration Fee (200x40) 8,000 SUM14,000

8. Budget for 40 fellows Money has transferred from APAN Secretariat to LOC for - expenses:6,000 US$ - conference support:2,000 US$

9. SINGAPORE FELLOWSHIP BUDGET Total Expenses for Fellowship: USD9,750 –Fellows Registration (38*USD163): USD6194 –RELC: USD3,165 –Transport Allowance: USD391 Shortage of USD5,688

10. Timelines 0 424 12 81620 Local Org. Comm  APAN (MD): Fellowship budget Local Org. Comm  APAN (MD): Fellowship budget 6 APAN (MD)  Local Org. Comm. & Fellow Comm.: -Budget & number of fellow to be awarded APAN (MD)  Local Org. Comm. & Fellow Comm.: -Budget & number of fellow to be awarded 10 Call for Fellow Call for Fellow Selection Submission week Announcement of The award Announcement of The award 17 Confirmation from Fellow candidates Confirmation from Fellow candidates 18 Fellow Final List

11. Issues: Funding (?) Last minute Cancellation –black list (?), fine (?), deposit? –Fellowship roundtable sharing session (Thursday Evening) Others (?)