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The venue and schedule are to be decided.
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A Productive and Fruitful 2nd APIRA International
Conference in Seoul, Korea
Sep 9, 2005
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From August 25 to 26, the second Asia-Pacific
Internet Research Alliance (APIRA) international conference
and member meeting, with the title of ¡°Expanding Application
of Internet Statistics, Comparable Measurement, Diverse
Analysis and Regional Cooperation¡± was successfully held
at Coex Conference Center in Seoul, Korea. The meeting was
hosted by National Internet Development Agency of Korea
(NIDA, formerly KRNIC) and sponsored by Ministry of Information
and Communication, Korea (MIC). |
| During the conference, leaders
and people in charge from governmental organizations such
as MIC, NIDA from Korea, MII from China and MCMC from Malaysia
were all presented. On the APIRA board meeting, Mr. Cho
Chan Hyeong, the director of Statistics and Policy Research
Team of NIDA, Korea, was elected as the 1st chair of APIRA
board. In the mean time, Mr. Cheong Weng Hin, professor
of University of Macau, was also elected as the deputy chair.
It has also been decided that the next APIRA member meeting
(the 3rd one) will be held by TWNIC. |
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| 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. |
| Since its foundation, APIRA has been one
of the most extensively influential organizations in Asia
Pacific region in the field of Internet statistics. In August
2004, the 1st APIRA member meeting was jointed held in Macao
and Hong Kong China. After the 1st meeting, the 1st APIRA
joint statistical survey on the Internet development among
APIRA regular members was successfully carried out at the
end of year 2004. In addition to the current seven members
of APIRA, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC),
National Internet Development Agency of Korea (NIDA, formerly
KRNIC), Access Media International, Japan (AMI), Taiwan
Network Information Center (TWNIC), City University of Hong
Kong, University of Macau and All China Strategic Research
(ACSR), an organization from Malaysia was approved as APIRA
member in the meeting. Malaysian Communications and Multimedia
Commission (MCMC) has been accepted as the regular member
of APIRA. |
| Scholars, experts and professionals from China,Korea,
Japan, Malaysia and local audience from public sector and
private sector, as well as professors and students from
local universities have all attended the conference. Mr.
Wang Enhai from CNNIC, the Secretary-general of APIRA summarized
the work and achievements by APIRA by that time in the opening
ceremony. He also described the future work for APIRA in
recent years. The conference contained two sessions: Country/Regional
report session and Theme Paper session. |
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