From August 7 to 9, 2007, the 4th APIRA Member Conference was held successfully in Cyberjaya , Malaysia by Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). During the elections held by the board of directors meeting on August 9, Mr. Cho Chan-Hyeong from NIDA was reelected as the Chairman of APIRA, Mr Wang Enhai from CNNIC as the Secretary General of APIRA and CNNIC remained the Secretariat of APIRA.
In April 2007, the Yahoo! Southeast Asia Company in Singapore submitted its application for membership to APRIA and gained approval.
In January 2007, I-Research Consulting Group in China and the Internet Marketing Council of Korea (IMCK) submitted their applications for membership to APRIA and gained approval.
On August 26, 2005, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia
Commission (MCMC) was officially approved to join APIRA as
a Regular Member of APIRA by the Board on the close-door APIRA
board meeting.
From August, 25 to 26,2005, the 2nd International Conference
and Member Meeting of APIRA, with the title of "Expanding
Application of Internet Statistics, Comparable Measurement,
Diverse Analysis and Regional Cooperation"was held in
Seoul, Korea. The meeting was hosted by NIDA (National Internet
Development Agency of Korea, formerly KRNIC). It has been
decided by the Board that Mr. Cho Chan-Hyeong from NIDA and
Mr. Angus from University of Macau as the Chair and Deputy
Chair respectively. Besides, the 3rd APIRA meeting will be
held by TWNIC in 2006.
August 20, 2004, 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.
From August 19 to 20,2004, the first Asia-Pacifi c 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
as secretary general of APIRA.
