The second round of Capability Build Project fund opens today. The aim of the fund is to build institutional capability amongst KAREN's core members. The criteria for the fund have been revised to reflect the priorities identified in the recently released Advanced Network Capability Building Roadmap 2007 - 2009. The primary areas of focus are:

• supporting adoption and implementation of real –time collaboration technologies for teaching and research
• supporting the adoption and implementation of middleware – specifically enabling sharing of data and/or information or computational resources, scientific equipment or facilitates national or international collaboration, and
  
• coordination of standards-based novel methods of data collection and analysis eg tele-instrumentation, visualisation and simulation, data and text mining

The Capability Build Project Fund is administered by the Royal Society, visit www.rsnz.org for an application form. Applications close on 30 November 2007. If you are interested in discussing the priorities from the roadmap contact Bill Choquette at REANNZ on +64 4 913 1099 or bill.choquette@reannz.co.nz