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The next APIRA meeting will be held in Taipei, by TWNIC in August, 2006.
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The 1st APIRA international conference
has made a great success in Macao and Hong Kong
August 20, 2004
Group Photo |
From August 19 to 20, the first Asia-Pacific
Internet Research Alliance (APIRA) member meeting, with
the title of the 1st International Conference on ˇ°Information
Statistics of the Internet: Measurement, Analysis and Applicationsˇ±
was successfully held in Macao and Hong Kong. The two local
hosts were University of Macau and City University of Hong
Kong. During the conference, Mr. Wang Enhai, the deputy
director of the Information Service Department of CNNIC
was elected secretary general of APIRA. It has been decided
that the Next APIRA member meeting will be held in Seoul,
Korea. |
| APIRA was founded in September
2003 in Beijing, China. It is a spontaneously organized
and non-profit, regional academic organization. It is aimed
for enhancing communication and comparison in Asia-Pacific
region on the Internet information; deepening the research
on statistical methodologies and techniques of the internet
information; facilitating the cooperation among Asia-Pacific
countries and regions on the Internet information survey
and research;boosting the regional development of the Internet
searches. |
the Secretary-General of APIRA, Mr. Wang Enhai from CNNIC
is addressing a speech. |
| Since its foundation, APIRA has been one
of the most extensively influential organizations in Asia
Pacific region in the field of Internet statistics. In addition
to the five launching members of APIRA, China Internet Network
Information Center (CNNIC), National Internet Development
Agency of Korea (NIDA, formerly KRNIC), Taiwan Network Information
Center (TWNIC), City University of Hong Kong and University
of Macau, two other organizations were approved as APIRA
members. Access Media International (AMI) from Japan has
become the regular member of APIRA and All China Strategic
Research (ACSR) from Chinese mainland has been accepted
as APIRA associate member. Moreover, organizations from
other countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have
also shown great interests in joining APIRA. |
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