Media release

International connectivity

“REANNZ warmly welcomes the Government’s initiative to invest in additional international telecommunications capacity to meet the future needs of the research and education sector. This will provide a step-change in opportunities for the KAREN community to collaborate and innovate”, said Donald Clark, REANNZ Chief Executive, today after the Government budget announcements.

The National Information Society Agency (NIA) in Korea has issued an invitation for international partners in network technology and applications research and working groups.

If wireless security or video room design are your thing register to participate in an Ozeconference.

The consultation period on the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 has been extended to 5.00pm Friday 23 May, 2008.

Share knowledge and make suggestions on KAREN and eResearch related services, applications projects and strategies at the new KAREN wiki.

ResearchChannel has invited New Zealand researchers to take part in the public beta test of Research1.

Is the internet changing science? Yes, according to Ben Shneiderman, a University of Maryland computer science professor. It's time for science to incorporate social networking and collaboration too.

Final call for papers for International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking (ICCMSN - 2008)

Dunedin, New Zealand
11-13 June 2008
http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/conferences/isn2008/

Webcasts of all key presentations at the recent 'Building effective virtual organizations' workshop are now available online.

Virtual organisations, entities linked by electronic communication tools to support collaborative relationships in distributed work environments, are increasingly central to collaborative projects across all disciplines.

26-28 November, University of Auckland

Research coordination and collaboration for geoscience in New Zealand is leaping forward with the recent initiation of the SCENZ-GRID project to establish a grid infrastructure for geoscientists in New Zealand and the larger scale NCRIS funded AuScope project in Australia.

Registrations are now open for the second of two technical workshops on advanced video conferencing and collaboration over KAREN - 23 November, 9:00am - 5:00pm, University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

Thanks in part to KAREN, Victoria University is the first New Zealand university to supervise a PhD totally 'In World'.

This Wainhouse Research paper "Using conferencing and collaboration to achieve carbon neutrality" is designed to encourage organisations to use online conferencing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from travel.

Presentations from the International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments are now available online.

Building KAREN Communities for Collaboration 2 - 5 July 2007

Excitement is mounting as registrations for this forum pour in from wide and far across the research, education, innovation and government sectors.

A key drawcard of the Building KAREN Communities for Collaboration forum is the ex-pat New Zealander and aptly known 'father of the Grid', Ian Foster.

Last Friday (18 May) BeSTGRID demonstrated for the first time in New Zealand live remote teaching on KAREN using EVO (Enabling Virtual Organisations).

Through REANNZ's international partnership with Taiwanese network, TWAREN, and Singaporean Network, SingAREN, KAREN members now have improved access to their peers in these countries. KAREN recently signed Memoranda of Understanding with TWAREN and SingAREN confirming peering arrangements, and as a result widening the reach of KAREN and speeding up access to international collaboration partners in these countries.

Peering is an interconnection of separate networks or groups of networks allowing the exchange of traffic between network customers.

AARNet High Definition (HD) Video Conferencing session

AARNet will hold an Ozeconference/information session on High Definition Video Conferencing at 2.00pm AEDST on Tuesday 13 February 2007.  An invitation to KAREN members to also participate has been kindly extended by James Sankar, AARNet's Director of Applications and Services.

The HIT Lab NZ is holding an invitation only workshop on Next Generation Collaboration on February 8th.
The workshop will focus on key video conferencing methods, collaboration and applications that are available now in New Zealand over high speed IP networks. With the launch of KAREN (Kiwi Advanced Research & Education Network) late last year bringing Gigabit bandwidth speeds to Universities and Research Institutions in New Zealand, next generation collaboration can now be achieved at a higher quality and larger scales.