Call for papers for the Workshop on Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid at CCGrid 2009.

This workshop will explore the integration of instruments and sensors into a computation Grid and the challenges associated with doing this to collect raw observations used in experiments. Paper submissions are due by 15 December.

Video conferencing is a readily available and accessible tool for collaboration across KAREN members and internationally. There are many video conferencing and collaboration products in use across the KAREN community.

Breaking Down Barriers: Global Connections

Beginning in the early hours of tomorrow morning NZ time, Megaconference X will showcase the latest real-world uses of videoconferencing for research and education, while using videoconferencing to do so. You can watch the streamed sessions for free.

REANNZ has two exciting job opportunities open for applications. These newly-created roles reflect a new direction and challenge for REANNZ, in growing its client base in new sectors and in expanding the range of services available on KAREN.

The Social Science Research Centre would like to thank those of you who completed the online survey about use of video conferencing technology. The results so far have been very interesting. For those who did not get a chance to fill it out, the survey is still open, if you would like to express your views.

Join us tomorrow to hear Julia Charity, Scion's KAREN champion, share her strategies for increasing video conference usage among Scion's research community.

Video conferencing is an easy and effective tool for supporting research collaboration and outreach.

A new book has just been released as an online eBook and in hard copy called The Tower and The Cloud – Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing.

This week the National Library began exploring video conferencing as a way to extend the reach of its services to schools.

School Services staff from the National Library met virtually with Wellington College teachers and CORE Education on Monday to explore video conferencing as a tool to share their understanding of books for boys and show them examples of books to help nurture boys’ reading.

BeSTGRID is about making eResearch work. BeSTGRID delivers mechanisms, methods and tools that facilitate collaboration on shared information, sharing of computational resources and online visualisation of instruments and experiments.

The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology is requesting proposals on the distribution of $840,000 to support a grid computing and middleware initiative.

The Government Budget 2008 allocated funding to develop capability around the use of KAREN. $840,000 (plus GST) of this funding was tagged to establish a national grid infrastructure and middleware tool initiative.